Chapter 8

Daniel seeth a ram with two horns overcome by a goat with one horn: ℣.8 Which shall also be broken, and four less rise in place thereof: one of them profaneth the temple in Jerusalem, and taketh away the daily sacrifice. ℣.15 And Gabriel the Archangel expoundeth the vision.

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   In the third year of the reign of Baltassar the king, a vision appeared to me. Daniel saw in my vision, after that which I

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   I, had seen in the beginning, when I was in Susis the castle, which is in the province of Ælam: and I saw in the vision, that I was over the gate Ulai.

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   & I lifted up mine eyes, and saw: and behold one ram stood before the marish, having high horns, & one higher than an other & growing under.

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   Afterward I saw the ram pushing with the horns against the West, & against the North, and against the South: and all beasts could not resist him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his will, & was magnified.

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   And I understood: and behold a buckgoat came from the West upon the face of the whole earth, & he touched not the ground. Moreover the buckgoat had a notable horn between his eyes:

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   And he came even to that ram with the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, & he ran towards him in the violence of his strength.

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   And when he had approached near the ram, he was wood against him, and struck the ram: and he brake his two horns, and the ram could not resist him: and when he had cast him on the ground, he trod him, and no man could deliver the ram out of his hand.

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   And the buckgoat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there rose up four horns under it by the four winds of heaven.

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   And out of one of them came forth one little horn: and it was made great against the South, and against the East, and against the strength.

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    And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod them.

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    And it was magnified even unto the prince of the strength: and from him it took the continual sacrifice, and threw down the place of his sanctification.

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    And strength was given against the continual sacrifice because of sins: and truth shall be thrown prostrate on the ground, and he shall do, and shall prosper.

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    And I heard one of the saints speaking, & one saint said to an other, I know not to whom that spake: How long the vision, and the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength shall be conculcate?

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    And he said to him: Unto the evening & morning, two thousand three hundred: & the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

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    And it came to pass when I, Daniel saw the vision, and sought the understanding: behold there stood in my sight as it were the form of a man.

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    And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai: and he cried, and said: Gabriel make this man understand the vision.

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    And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, trembling I fell on my face, & he said to me: Understand son of man, that in the time of the end the vision shall be accomplished.

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    And when he spake to me I fell flat on the ground: and he touched me, and set me up in my standing,

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    and said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come in the last of the malediction: because the time hath his end.

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    The ram, which thou sawest have horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.

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    Moreover the buckgoat, is the king of the Graecians, and the great horn, that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

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    But whereas that being broken, there rose up four for it: four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not in his strength.

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    And after their reign, when iniquities shall be increased, there shall arise a king impudent of face, and understanding propositions.

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    And his strength shall be made strong, but not in his own strength: and more than can be believed, shall he waste all things, and shall prosper, and do. And he shall kill the strong, and the people of the saints

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    according to his will, and craft shall be directed in his hand: and he shall magnify his heart, and in the abundance of all things he shall murder very many: & against the prince of princes shall he arise, & without hand he shall be destroyed.

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    & the vision of the evening and the morning, which hath been said, is true: thou therefore seal the vision, because it shall be after many days.

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    And I, Daniel languished, and was sick for certain days: and when I was risen up, I did the king's works, and was astonished at the vision, and there was none that could interpret it.