. Illustrazioni di profezia : in particolare le visioni serali e mattutine di Daniele, e le visioni apocalittiche di Giovanni , che i persiani conquistarono e si opprimono dolorosamente. La crudeltà dei re persiani, ac-cording alla storia è quasi senza un paral-lel, e questo, è denotato dalla profeticindication, sorgono, divorano molta carne. Le loro conquiste del mondo, non fondano nulla per impedire il loro corso sanguinoso, un-til sole del loro impero passato il suo meridiano, e infine si misero in mezzo ai paesi di Tracia^Macedonia, Grecia, e altre europeazioni. Questi, a loro volta, si stavano preparando

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. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . which thePersians conquered, and grievously oppress-ed. The cruelty of the Persian kings, ac-cording to history is almost without a paral-lel, and this, is denoted by the propheticindication, arise, devour much flesh. Intheir conquests of the world, they foundnothing to impede their bloody course, un-til the sun of their empire past its meridian, and finally set amid the countries of Thrace^Macedonia, Greece, and other Europeannations. These, in their turn, were preparingto compete with the oriental nations, for uni-versal dominion. History, gives astonishing-accounts, of the immense armies whichXerxes the Great marched into Greece, somefive or six millions. His army was repulsed bythe Greeks. Millions of his own wretchedsubjects perished in this signal defeat. ThePersian beast, it may be truly said, de-voured much flesh. 6 After this, I beheld, and lo, another, like a leop-ard, which had upon theback of it four wings of afowl; the beast had alsofour heads ; and dominionwas given to it.. 54 ILLUSTRATIONS OF PROPHECY. This extraordinary leopard, was the em-blem of the Greek and Macedonian empire, which became one of the most renowned inthe world. It was erected, by Alexanderthe Great, on the ruins of the Persammonarchy. The rapid marching of thismighty conqueror, could not be fully repre-sented by the leopard, without giving to it, four wings of a fowl. After Alexanderhad conquered the world, and died, at Baby-lon, (B. C. 323, ) his empire was dividedinto four, Egypt, Syria, Macedonia andThrace. These divisions were denoted bythe four heads of the leopard, which will beconsidered more fully when we come to Dan-iels morning vision, where this empire is de-noted by the he-goat, with first one and thenfour horns, with its appropriate little horn, while the fourth beast which is next to beconsidered, receives a similar modification, by Daniels descriptio

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