" Verses 5-7.
The angel's interpretation continued: "The rough goat is the king of
Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king."
Verse 21.
_History._--This "first king" of united Grecia was Alexander the Great.
"With Alexander the New Greece begins."--_Harrison, "Story of
Greece," p. 499._
"And it happened, after that Alexander ... had smitten Darius
king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead,
the first over Greece." 1 Maccabees 1:1.
Under Alexander, the Grecian goat ran upon the Persian ram "in the fury
of his power." At Arbela, wrote Arrian, the Macedonians charged "with
great fury." None was able to deliver the Persian ram. "Wherever you
fly," wrote Alexander to the retreating Darius, "thither I will surely
pursue you." (See "Anabasis of Alexander the Great," by Arrian, book 2,
chap. 14.) Medo-Persia fell before Grecia, as this sure word of prophecy
had foretold two hundred years before Alexander's day.
Grecia's expansion and its later history were next unfolded before the
prophet's vision:
_Prophecy.
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