Daniel his Chaldie visions and his Ebrevv: both translated after the original: and expounded both, by reduction of heathen most famous stories vnto the exact proprietie of his wordes (which is the surest certaintie what he must meane:) and by ioyning all the Bible, and learned tongues to the frame of his worke

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Daniel his Chaldie visions and his Ebrevv: both translated after the original: and expounded both, by reduction of heathen most famous stories vnto the exact proprietie of his wordes (which is the surest certaintie what he must meane:) and by ioyning all the Bible, and learned tongues to the frame of his worke

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1596.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HO∣NORABLE THE LL. OF HER M. MOST HONORABLE PRIVIE COVNSEL.
• To the Christian Reader: of Da∣niels plainnesse.
• The summe and graces of Daniel.
• Faults escaped.
• THE KINGS BELONGING to the Image in DANIEL.
  • Chaldeans.
  • Of the Persian kings, whereof they whose names are in Hebrew are extant in scripture. The Greeke names are as heathen write and terme them.
  • The Greekes whole.
  • The Greekes parted.
  • The clay weaknes of the Images legs.
    • Southerne.
    • Northerne two at once.
  • Of the times and yeares which these kings raigned.
  • Of the Chaldeans time of raigne.
  • Of the Persians true times: and erronious sleights that deceiued.
  • Of the Grecians times from Clemens: (but Epipha∣nius differeth in twelue yeares excesse, and Maximus Monachus cometh shorter.)
  • The Nobles of Iuda, that touch principally the booke of Daniell.
• Aramaic section
  • CHAPTER. 1. The beginning and the ende of the seauentie yeeres captiuitie.
  • CHAP. 2. The state of the Hebrewes, vntill the birth of our Lord, vnder the Caldeans, Medes-Persians, and the Grae∣cians: The kingdome of Christe shall after that fill the whole earth. Daniel is a new Ioseph.
  • CHAP. 3. The king hauing dreamed of the Image, soone after ma∣keth an Image of golde, wherein th idolatrie of Babel is confuted by Daniels aduanced felowes, the angell of God accompanying them in the fyer: and the king by decree confirming the honour of their God.
  • CHAP. 4. The Golden bead imputeth his victories, not to the God of heauen, but to himselfe, and his God, vntill he had been madd seauen yeeres: then he proclaymeth Gods power ouer all the worlde.
  • CHAP. 6. The idolatrie of Madaj and Paras, in making their Kinges Goddes, with brutish penaltie vpon the contemners: confu∣ted by Daniel, and iudged by the Lyons, euen vnto a pub∣lique imperiall honour by decree for Daniels God. The Chaldy wherein this Chapter is written by Daniel, is mixt with Arabique: which tongue the Persians here seeme to haue much vsed.
  • CHAP. 7. The Kingdomes which were showed for the capacitie of Nebuchadnezar in a goodly Image, are now agayne shewed, aboue 60. yeeres after the other, to the prophet Daniel him selfe, in the formes of foure Beastes. And whereas their worldly destruction, was likened to chaffe caried away by the winde: now their eternal punishment is expressed by fire. And the Stone afore cut from the Mountayne, is here the Sonne of Man, honored with the throne of the eternall Father.
• Of the Ʋisions penned in the Iewes proper language.
  • chapter - 8
    • Close phrases, vsed in chap. 8.
    • CHAP. 8.
  • CHAP. 9. At the ende of the 70. yeeres captiuitie, Daniel praying for returne, is tolde that the deliuerie to Ierusalem is presently graunted him: and the eternall, by our Lordes death is shewed: that it shalbe at seuen times seuentie Y. from the houre of his prayer. So long Ierusalem shall haue the pre∣rogatiue to be the holy Citie. But then the Heathen shalbe equal in the couenant, and al Moses ceremonies must cease. For enforcement to beholde that, Christ will destroy the Citie and Holy place, in the age folowyng. His prayer is penned with speciall regarde, euen of the very Ebrew syl∣lables to the prophets, from whom the matter of his speach is taken. Those places must be marked.
    • Of the 70. seuens.
    • How the 70. seuens end the holy Chronicle.
    • How the Chaine of Iubilees attendeth vpon this.
    • Of Daniels People.
    • An exposition of the former Law phrases: by the common termes of men.
    • A reduction of the Gospell vnto the oration of Gabriel.
    • The certaintie of the Ebrew.
  • CHAP. 10. Daniel hath one vision describing Christ the most holy: and an other of an Angel: who sheweth vnto him in ge∣nerall, the affayres of the Iewes distresse vnder the Persi∣ans: And how the Persians are ruled by this Angel, vntil the king of Iauan, Alexander the great commeth.
  • CHAP. 11. Gabriel geueth now an exposition of the matters figured by the Image: great, goodly, and tirrible: by the beastes that came out of the Sea: and by the other that battered at the riuer Vlai, in more particuler sort, then the former three expositions of those three visions shewed the matter: so that this is the sea∣uenth time, that the same nations are spoken off: thrife figu∣red, and as often expounded afore. This speach teacheth of their particular dealinges, in such playnnes, as the Heathen afterwardes penned their doinges. He reckoneth how many kinges of Persia shalbe soone cut off, or ouerthrowen, for hin∣dering the worke of the Temple. Thence, he passeth ouer to great Alexander, and geueth an abridgement of all his sto∣ries: his arising, his fall, and his houses: of his foure principall successours, of the many others lesser then they, of two the migh∣tiest: whose families should all their time, both, clayme the kingdome of Iudah: And he geueth an historie aforehand of ten Kinges, the ten hornes of the fourth Beast: shewing in them the rigour of the iron legges, and iron teeth: how not only they deuoured Iudah in their taxes, and other yeerely reuenues, but trode it more downe, by their continuall camping in it, from both their chiefe kingdomes. And in Antiochus Epiphanes, the last instrument of wrath against the Holy co∣uenant; he continueth a long speach, as he was chiefly to be loo∣ked vnto: of his treacherous comming vp in Syria, by poysoning his brother: of his preparing against Egypt (where by the way Iudah felt the beginning of the 2300. dayes oppression:) of his great successe in his first voyage into Egypt: of the seconde, with bad successe: and his vehementer rage against the Tem∣ple, by his returne through Iudea: which rage helde three yeeres and an halfe: of a thirde voyage, wherein he spoyled Egypt exceedingly, and returned through Iudea to Elymais: and of his death by the hand of God. All these thinges are handled of him so particularly, that all the wyse of those dayes might be confirmed to stande to the trueth, seeing aforehand what should be their euent: and all of all ages marke in whom the last visions of Daniel ended, that the prophecies might draw men vnto Christ: and not beyonde him, as the Iewes now adayes woulde peruert his sayinges, and turne them in most senselesse wyse against Christianitie, and to their owne eternall ruine. For all this, Heathen stories are for vs sure witnesses, of the Angels meaning.
    • A repetition of Babels fall.
    • ¶ Of 4. Persian kinges, plagued for the Temple.
    • ❧ Of Alexander, and his family.
    • ¶ Of the two legges, ioyned to the belly and sides. cha. 2. the two kingdomes which remayned of Alexanders Princes: which make the fourth beast with ten hornes.
    • Of the mixture of Iron and Clay, how the two parted Kingdome, the two legges; Dan. 2. ioyned in mans seede, and Mariages, cleaueth together as Iron and Clay: a daughter of the South king being giuen to the Northren.
    • How Heathen that neuer knew Daniel recorde the euent of this matter.
    • Of Antiochus surnamed the Great .6. horne.
    • Of the great Armies of Antiochus and Ptolemy Philopator.
    • Of Ptolemy Philopator, and his Armie gotten to be great, against Antiochus the great: after which victorie he is a seauenth Horne to Iudah.
    • The death of Antiochus the great.
    • Of Seleuc. Philopator, the 9. Horne.
    • Of Antiochus Epiphanes the 10. horne, in whom the iron of the Syriaque legge doth end, and on whom the rest of Daniel goeth: how he is a litle horne, a plucker away of three before him: of his brother (by Heliodorus sleight, though he after would haue raigned,) of his brothers sonne, and of his sister Cleopatras sonne: and how he had eyes like a priuate man: and a mouth speaking presumptuous things.
    • The dealings of Antiochus Epiphanes touching Ptolemie Philometor and Iudah: whence the troubles of Iuda. 1. Mach. begin.
    • The dealing of Antiochus against Iudaea.
    • Antiochus his third voyage into Egypt: against Ptolemie Philometor.
    • How Antiochus bestowed the spoiles of Aegypt and of other countreys, as Polybius in A∣theneus recordeth, as a witnesse vnto the holy Angell.
    • Of Antiochus Parthian war and breaking without hand, chap. 8. and casting into the fier, chap. 7.
  • CHAP. 12. A further explication of the afflictions vnder Antiochus Epiphanes: and notes vpon the vvhole oration.
    • The better resurrection and the worse: Eb. 11. to life, and to Iudgement, Iohn. 5.
    • Of keeping close these Prophecies.
    • The and hiding of the minde, which Daniel vsed.
    • An Angel demaundes how long the wonders of Antiochus dealings shall preuaile: and hath an answere from chap. 7.25. that it shall conti∣nue three yeares and an halfe. And thereupon the Greekes hand set vpon the holy people shalbe brused.
    • Daniels demaundes concerning the time when the Iewes should begin to recouer their state from the Greekes: with speeches of Christ touching the darknesse of all the oration, and counsel for the afflictions of the godly.
• The Conclusion.