Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . THE THIRD BEAST After this I beheld, and \o another, like a leopard. Dan. 7:6. fieetness, the great dominion given it, the division of the em-pire into satrapies, as suggested by the four heads of the leop-ard. Out of the conflicts following Alexanders death, therecame the fourfold headship of the empire. Rawlinson says,*^A quadripartite division of Alexanders domain was recog-nized. (See *Sixth Monarchy, chap. 3.) The real situ-ation is best represented, as Dr. Albert Barnes says, by oneanimal with four heads, just as the prophetic symbol de-s
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . THE THIRD BEAST After this I beheld, and \o another, like a leopard. Dan. 7:6. fieetness, the great dominion given it, the division of the em-pire into satrapies, as suggested by the four heads of the leop-ard. Out of the conflicts following Alexanders death, therecame the fourfold headship of the empire. Rawlinson says,*^A quadripartite division of Alexanders domain was recog-nized. (See *Sixth Monarchy, chap. 3.) The real situ-ation is best represented, as Dr. Albert Barnes says, by oneanimal with four heads, just as the prophetic symbol de-scribed it centuries before. The Historic Prophecy of Daniel 7 123 Thus the course of empire followed the outline of thesure word of prophecy from age to age. Armies were ranged in battles dread array:They fought — their glory withered in its bud;They perished — with them ceased their tyrants sway;New wars, new heroes came — their story passed away. There was to be no abiding kingdom till the time camefor Gods glorious kingdom to be set THE FOURTH BEAST After this I saw in the night visions, and be-hold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, andstrong exceedingly. Dan. 7:7. Rome As the prophet watched the moving panorama of history,foretold in symbols, he said: Prophecy.—After this I saw in the night visions, andbehold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong ex-ceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brakein pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and itwas diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it hadten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came
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