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 xii. 12.) For these words of the angel would seem fitly to refer to the glorious event, which was revealed to the Prophet as the closing act of the 2300 days—"And the sanctuary shall be cleansed."

We have thus laid before our readers those portions of Daniel's prophecy, which, according to St. Jerome, relate more especially to the coming of Antichrist under the symbol of the little horn. We have shown that the period of his coming would seem, by comparing these visions of Daniel together, to be one immediately following the destruction of the Roman empire, and its subdivision into the ten kingdoms foretold by the Prophet; we have shown that the prophecy relating to the he-goat, or the Macedonian-Greek empire, proves the locality of the little horn, or Antichrist, to be within the geographical limits of what constituted Alexander's empire; that the expression of the Prophet, that this little horn was to grow up within these limits after the time (Dan. viii. 23, "After their reign") allotted for the duration of the four monarchies into which Alexander's empire was to be subdivided (for how else can we interpret the expression "after their reign?"), warrants us in looking for the coming of Antichrist after these four portions of Alexander's empire should have ceased to be