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one = [the] one.
a little horn. See note on Dan_7:8, where it is already shown that this name, and these members (Dan_8:9 and Dan_8:23) belong to the still future time of the end. See App-90.
waxed = grew. Anglo-Saxon, weaxan = to grow. Supply the Ellipsis (App-6), "grew [and became]"
south: i.e. Egypt.
east: i.e. Babylonia and Persia.
pleasant land = the glory of [gems]: i.e. the land of Israel. Only Ezekiel (Dan_20:6, Dan_20:15) and Daniel here use this term of the Holy Land. The same land as in Dan_11:16, Dan_11:41. Compare Psa_106:24. Jer_3:19. Zec_7:14.