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1 | Are you confirming or correcting me? | Dan 7:25 | Emmaus | 70616 | ||
Chusarcik, I believe that prophetic passages can have polyvalent meanings that may apply to more than one kind or period of fulfillment. The fourth beast seems to be the Selucid Kingdom, which persecuted the Jews and the Christians. This passage could be fulfilled in the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus IV, also the persecutions of Christians by Nero and other Emperors who demanded worship as well as in the coming tribulation. So, yes all the saved at one time or another, but especially at the Second Coming. See 1 Macabees 1 in Catholic and Greek Orthodox Bibles or your Apochrypha which describes the campaign of Antiochus Epiphanes IV. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/1maccabees/1maccabees1.htm Emmaus |
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2 | Are you confirming or correcting me? | Dan 7:25 | EdB | 70650 | ||
Emmaus I know many hold Daniel 7:25 was fulfilled by the actions of Antiochus Epiphanes (Antiochus IV) as you have stated. But how do we apply the meaning of the 10 horns with a little horn rising up, as described in verse 22 and pertaining to this character, to Antiochus IV since he was the eighth of 26 kings that came out of the Seleucian Empire? EdB |
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3 | Are you confirming or correcting me? | Dan 7:25 | Emmaus | 70668 | ||
Ed, This passage does present some difficulties. Perhaps there is someone out there to shed a little more light on how the Aramaic of 7:8 would translated literally or at least differently that the usual. Chapter 7 was written in Aramaic and chapter 8 in Hebrew. The Jerome Biblical Commentary has this to say looking at the passage from one perspective: "The fourth beast...has ten horns, symbolizing the ten rulers of this dynasty...According to Borossus, Seleucus I Nicator was reckoned the third Gk ruler in the Near East (Alexander the Great being the first, and either Alexander Aegus or Philip Arrhidaeus being the second), so that the tenth horn (ruler)must be Antiochus IV Ephipanes." Looking from another perspective regarding the ten horns,the little horn and the three horns it says: ..."This new symbolism for Antiochus comes from 8:9, "three of the previous horns were torn away to make room for it"(7:8): This translation is based on the interpretation supposing the three of Antiochus' predecessors died violent deaths so that he could succeed to the throne. Even if true, he was responsible for none of these deaths. But in v.20...it is stated that"three of the horns fell before him"--i.e., were defeated by him in battle. Therefore...the ten horns do not represent ten successive Gk kings , but ten kings of various countries contemporanius with Antiochus IV Ephipanes--the "little horn" that "sprang up among them".. Actually as Porphyry first noted (quoted by Jerome, PL 25.531) Antiochus IV Ephipanes "laid low three kings" ...in defeating Ptolemy VI Philometor in 170, Ptolomey VII Euergetes II in 168 and King Artaxias of Armenia in 165." Emmaus |
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4 | Are you confirming or correcting me? | Dan 7:25 | EdB | 70672 | ||
Emmaus Interesting! Let us see if anyone cares to shed any other light. EdB |
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