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isles, (that is to say, seaports), "and shall take many," (as
Appian says).

"But a prince shall oppose, his conquests," (Scipio Africanus, who stopped
the progress of Antiochus the Great, because he offended the Romans in the
person of their allies), "and shall cause the reproach offered by him to
cease. He shall then return into his kingdom and there perish, and be no
more." (He was slain by his soldiers.)

"And he who shall stand up in his estate," (Seleucus Philopator or Soter,
the son of Antiochus the Great), "shall be a tyrant, a raiser of taxes in
the glory of the kingdom," (which means the people), "but within a few days
he shall be destroyed, neither in anger nor in battle. And in his place
shall stand up a vile person, unworthy of the honour of the kingdom, but he
shall come in cleverly by flatteries. All armies shall bend before him; he
shall conquer them, and even the prince with whom he has made a covenant.
For having renewed the league with him, he shall work deceitfully, and enter
with a small people into his province, peaceably and without fear. He shall
take the fattest places, and shall do that which his fathers have not done,
and ravage on all sides. He shall forecast great devices during his time."

723. Prophecies.--The seventy weeks of Daniel are ambiguous as regards the
term of commencement, because of the terms of the prophecy; and as regards
the term of conclusion, because of the differences among chronologists. But
all this difference extends only to two hundred years.

724. Predictions.--That in the fourth monarchy, before the destruction of
the second temple, before the dominion of the Jews was taken away, in the
seventieth week of Daniel, during the continuance of the second temple, the
heathen should be instructed, and brought to the