Following Alexander's death the empire was divided "toward the four
winds of heaven." Myers says:
"Four well-defined and important monarchies arose out of the
ruins.... The great horn was broken; and instead of it came up
four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven."--_"History
of Greece" (edition 1902), p. 457._
As the prophet watched these four kingdoms of divided Greece, he beheld
another power coming into the field of his vision through one of the
four kingdoms, and extending its authority more than any before it:
_Prophecy._--"Out of one of them [one of the four kingdoms] came forth a
little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward
the east, and toward the pleasant land." Verse 9.
_History._--Medo-Persia was "great," Grecia was "very great," but this
power was to be "exceeding great." Rome followed Grecia. Polybius, the
Roman, says:
"Almost the whole inhabited world was conquered, and brought
under the dominion of the single city of Rome."--_"Histories of
Polybius" (Evelyn Shuckburgh's translation), book 1, chap.
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