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These great beasts, &c. In Dan_7:17-18 we have therefore the interpretation of this vision, which needs no further interpretation by man.
shall arise. The two which had already arisen cannot therefore be included: Babylon and Medo-Persia,which almost (at this time) equalled Babylon in extent. The vision is not continuous history, but the prophecy of a crisis: and refers to the ten toes of the fifth power of Daniel 2. See note on Dan_7:12. In this, and in each successive vision we are always directed to the end and consummation. Compare Dan_7:26; Dan_8:17-19; Dan_9:26; Dan_11:40; Dan_12:4, Dan_12:9, Dan_12:13. Mat_24:14, Mat_24:15. See App-90.