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we learn that at the end of the Roman kingdom ten kings will rise up at the same time, working many evils against one another, and contending for one another's kingdoms, in the same way the Macedonians continued to do; and 81.1505 that when these things are happening, the man of sin will appear, the son of perdition, that is, the Antichrist. Since, therefore, the end of the Roman kingdom resembles the division of the Macedonian kingdom, the blessed Daniel is taught at the same time the things that will happen under these and under those. For some of the things that will be said apply to the Macedonians, and some to the ten horns that will be, and to the one that sprouted up among them. And that these things are so, we shall learn from the prophecy itself. It is fitting, therefore, for us to pay attention with all accuracy, and to appropriately divide the things that apply to these and the things that apply to those. And we have an example of this in the evangelical teaching. For when the Lord had said to the apostles concerning the temple in Jerusalem, "Amen, amen I say to you, there will not be left here a stone upon a stone, which will not be thrown down," then when they asked, "When will these things be, and what is the sign of your coming?" and they having brought forward a twofold question, the Lord makes his answer mixed, saying at the same time the things that will happen to Jerusalem, and the things that will happen at the time of the consummation. But those initiated into divine things distinguish clearly the things fitting for these times and for those times. Therefore we also will do this here with the appropriate demonstration. Having taught, therefore, the blessed Daniel the one speaking with him, that the kingdom will be divided four ways, and having left aside two, I mean the one of Macedonia, and the one of Asia, or of the Hellespont, as having lasted for a short time, and having least troubled the Jews, he adds: 5. "And the king of the South grew strong, and one of his princes shall prevail against him, and shall rule a great dominion besides his own authority." And he means Ptolemy Philopator, not being content with the kingdom of Egypt, but also having taken Phoenicia, and Samaria, and Judea. And he says that one of his princes who grew strong was Scopas, whom Josephus the Hebrew writer also mentions, who, having been an excellent general, subjected to Ptolemy many of the things outside Ptolemy's kingdom. Alluding to this he says, "And he shall rule a great dominion besides his own authority," that is, he will rule many nations being outside the authority assigned to him. 6. "And after his years they shall be joined together, and the daughter of the king of the South shall come to the king of the North, to make agreements with him." After the death of Ptolemy Philopator, his son Ptolemy, surnamed Epiphanes, reigned. This, then, is what he says, that "After his years they shall be joined together;" and teaching how they shall be joined together: "The daughter, he says, of the king of the South shall come to the king 81.1508 of the North, to make agreements with him." And by the king of the North he means Antiochus, not Epiphanes, but the one called the Great, the father of Antiochus Epiphanes; for he was a contemporary of those Ptolemies. "But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, neither shall his seed stand; and she shall be given up, and they that bring her, and the young woman, and he that strengthened her in those times." But the marriage, he says, will take place, yet the union will not last for long, but she will be returned to the one who sent her, through those who brought her, along with the things that were brought with her. For this is what he says: "And he that strengthened her in those times." the wealth that makes the marriage strong and desirable. 7. "And there shall stand up, he says, a shoot from her root in his place." The meaning is: though she will be returned to her father, she will bear a king who will oppose the kingdom of the one who gave her. "And he shall come, he says, against the force." And he calls Jerusalem "the force," as enjoying divine grace,

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μανθάνομεν, ὡς ἐν τῷ τέλει τῆς Ῥω μαϊκῆς βασιλείας δέκα κατ' αὐτὸν ἀναστήσονται βασιλεῖς, πολλὰ κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐργαζόμενοι κακὰ, καὶ τὰς ἀλλήλων καταγωνιζόμενοι βασιλείας, ὃν τρόπον οἱ Μακεδόνες διετέλουν ποιοῦντες· καὶ 81.1505 ὅτι τούτων οὕτω γινομένων, φανήσεται ὁ ἄν θρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας, τουτ έστιν ὁ Ἀντίχριστος. Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν ἔοικε τῆς Ῥωμαίων βασιλείας τὰ τέλη τῇ διαιρέσει τῆς Μακε δονικῆς βασιλείας, τὰ ὑπὸ τούτων κἀκείνων γενη σόμενα κατὰ ταὐτὸν ὁ μακάριος διδάσκεται ∆α νιήλ. Τινὰ μὲν γὰρ τῶν ῥηθησομένων τοῖς Μακεδό σιν ἁρμόττει, τινὰ δὲ τοῖς ἐσομένοις δέκα κέρασι, καὶ τῷ μεταξὺ αὐτῶν βλαστήσαντι. Καὶ ὅτι ταῦθ' οὕτως ἔχει, ἐξ αὐτῆς μαθησόμεθα τῆς προφητείας. Προσ ήκει τοίνυν ἡμᾶς μετὰ πάσης προσέχειν ἀκριβείας, καὶ διαιρεῖν προσφόρως τά τε τούτοις, τά τε ἐκείνοις ἁρμόττοντα. Ἔχομεν δὲ τούτου παράδειγμα τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν διδασκαλίαν. Καὶ γὰρ τοῦ Κυρίου τοῦ ναοῦ τοῦ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις εἰρηκότος τοῖς ἀποστό λοις· "Ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐ μὴ μείνῃ ὧδε λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον, ὃς οὐ μὴ καταλυθῇ," εἶτα ἐκείνων ἐρομένων· "Πότε ταῦτα ἔσται, καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον τῆς σῆς παρουσίας;" Καὶ διπλῆν ἐρώτησιν προσαγα γόντων, ὁ Κύριος ἀναμὶξ ποιεῖται τὴν ἀπόκρισιν, κατὰ ταὐτὸν λέγων τά τε τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις συμβη σόμενα, καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν τῆς συντελείας καιρὸν γενησόμενα. Οἱ δὲ τὰ θεῖα μεμυημένοι διαιροῦσιν εὐκρινῶς τά τε τούτοις, τά τε ἐκείνοις ἁρμόττοντα τοῖς καιροῖς. Τοῦτο τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐνταῦθα μετὰ τῆς προσηκούσης ποιήσομεν ἀποδείξεως. ∆ιδάξας τοίνυν τὸν μακάριον ∆ανιὴλ ὁ προσδιαλεγόμε νος, ὅτι τετραχῆ διαιρεθήσεται ἡ βασιλεία, καὶ τοὺς δύο καταλιπὼν, τόν τε τῆς Μακεδονίας φημὶ, καὶ τὸν τῆς Ἀσίας, ἤτοι τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου, ὡς καὶ πρὸς βραχὺν διαρκέσαντας χρόνον, καὶ Ἰουδαίους ἥκισταλελυπηκότας, ἐπάγει· εʹ. "Καὶ ἐνίσχυσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ Νότου, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτοῦ εἷς ἐνισχύσει ἐπ' αὐτὸν, καὶ κυριεύσει κυρείαν πολλὴν ἐκτὸς ἐξουσίας αὑ τοῦ." Πτολεμαῖον δὲ λέγει τὸν Φιλοπάτορα, μὴ ἀρ κεσθέντα τῇ τῆς Αἰγύπτου βασιλείᾳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ Φοι νίκην, καὶ Σαμάρειαν, καὶ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν προσλα βόντα. Ἕνα δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτοῦ ἐνισχύοντα τὸν Σκοπᾶν λέγει, οὗ καὶ ὁ Ἰώσηππος ὁ Ἑβραῖος μέμνηται συγγραφεὺς, ὃς ἄριστα στρατηγήσας, πολλὰ τῶν ἔξω τῆς τοῦ Πτολεμαίου βασιλείας τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ ὑπέταξε. Τοῦτο αἰνιττόμενος λέγει· "Καὶ κυριεύσει κυρείαν πολλὴν ἐκτὸς ἐξουσίας αὑτοῦ," τουτέστι, κρατήσει ἐθνῶν πολλῶν ἔξω τῆς ἀφ ωρισμένης αὐτῷ ἐξουσίας ὄντων. ʹ. "Καὶ μετὰ τὰ ἔτη αὐτοῦ συμμιγήσονται, καὶ θυγάτηρ τοῦ βασιλέως τοῦ Νότου εἰσελεύσεται πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα τοῦ Βοῤῥᾶ, τοῦ ποιῆσαι συνθήκας μετ' αὐτοῦ." Μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Φιλοπάτορος Πτολεμαίου τε λευτὴν ἐβασίλευσε Πτολεμαῖος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, ὁ Ἐπι φανὴς προσαγορευόμενος. Τοῦτο οὖν λέγει, ὅτι "Μετὰ τὰ ἔτη αὐτοῦ συμμιγήσονται·" καὶ διδά σκων, πῶς συμμιγήσονται· "Θυγάτηρ, φησὶ, τοῦ βασιλέως τοῦ Νότου εἰσελεύσεται πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα 81.1508 τοῦ βοῤῥᾶ, τοῦ ποιῆσαι συνθήκας μετ' αὐτοῦ." Βα σιλέα δὲ τοῦ βοῤῥᾶ τὸν Ἀντίοχον λέγει, οὐ τὸν Ἐπιφανῆ, ἀλλὰ τὸν καλούμενον Μέγαν, τὸν τοῦ Ἐπιφανοῦς Ἀντιόχου πατέρα· οὗτος γὰρ ἦν τοῖς Πτολεμαίοις ἐκείνοις ὁμόχρονος. "Καὶ οὐ κρατήσει ἰσχὺς βραχίονος, καὶ οὐ στήσεται τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ, καὶ παραδοθήσεται αὕτη, καὶ οἱ φέροντες αὐτὴν, καὶ ἡ νεᾶνις, καὶ ὁ κατισχύων αὐτὴν ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς" Ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν γάμος, φησὶ, γενήσεται, οὐ μὴν ἐπὶ πολὺ διαρκέσει τὸ συνοικέσιον, ἀλλ' ἀποδοθήσεται τῷ πεπομφότι αὐτὴν διὰ τῶν ἀγαγόντων αὐτὴν, μετὰ τῶν προσενηνεγμένων αὐτῇ. Τοῦτο γὰρ λέγει· "Καὶ ὁ κατισχύων αὐτὴν ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς." ὁ τὸν γάμον ἰσχυρὸν καὶ ποθεινὸν ἐργαζόμενος πλοῦτος. ζʹ. "Καὶ ἀναστήσεται, φησὶ, ἐκ τοῦ ἄνθους ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης αὐτῆς ἐπὶ τῆς ἑτοιμασίας αὐτοῦ." Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἀποδοθήσεται μὲν τῷ γεγεννηκότι, παιδοποιήσει δὲ βασιλέα τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ δεδωκότος ἐναντιωθησό μενον. "Καὶ ἥξει, φησὶ, πρὸς τὴν δύναμιν." ∆ύνα μιν δὲ καλεῖ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὡς τῆς θείας χάριτος ἀπολαύουσαν,