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A plain and continued exposition of the several prophecies or divine visions of the prophet Daniel which have or may concern the people of God, whether Jew or Christian : whereunto is annexed a threefold appendage touching three main points, the first relating to Daniel, the other two to the Apocalypse / by Henry More ...
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More, Henry, 1614-1687.
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more expedite and compendious expression you may call Geniconaea the latter Idiconaea which signifie the general and more particular meaning of such a part of the Prophecy As in this present Instancâ—â— Geniconaea the whole succession of the Kingdom of the Seleucidae may be understood but by an Idiconaea such passages as are understood of others in the succession at large may be again particularly applied to Antiochus Epiphanes for whose sake chiefly the affairs of the Seleucidae are predicted And to give instances of these Figures in other Propehcies Apoc. 17. By a Geniconaea the whole succession of the Heads of the Beast that was is not and yet is namely of the Roman Empire become Pagano-Christian whether Emperours of Popes are understood by the seventh Head of that Beast but by an Idiconaea the Popes particularly as Antiochus Epiphanes particularly in the succession of the Seleucidae So Apoc. 13. The Beast healed of its deadly wound healed I say by the diligence of the Two-horned Beast and recovered again into a kind of Paganism by a Genicoâ—…aea may be understood of the whole Laick Roman Empire so debauched by the Sacerdotal Polity but by an Idiconaea the making of the Image of the Beast may be referred particularly to the German Empire as the Object or Opus and to the Pope as the particular Artifex thereof And lastly in Daniel Chap. 11. ver 36. the King that does according to his will and shall exalt himself c. by a Geniconaea may be understood of the Roman Power at least from the first Epocha of Christianity to the expiration of the said Power which will expire with the Pope but by an Idiconaea it is particularly understood of the Papal Polity or Hierarchy Which Four examples I hope are sufficient to illustrate these Prophetical Figures which are worth the notice of the judicious and considerate and will serve to reconcile serious Interpreters of the Prophecies some hitting upon the Idiconaea of the Prophecy others upon the Geniconaea Which is no clashing one with another if they understand themselves But that sense which the Geniconaea exhibits is necessary sometimes and demonstrably true by Virtue of the Synchronisms Ver. 14. Which is the sense that Calvin himself seems to aim at c. And Theodoret and Isidore are of the same opinion as they are cited by Gasper Sanctius Neque desunt says he qui Christum esse dicunt illum qui in flumine apparuit quique Gabrieli jussit ut Prophetae obscurm illud aenigma manifestaret quasi jam praeluderet ad sumendam posteà humanam naturam in qua suas deinde inter homines delicias haberet ita Theodoretus Isidorus So Gasper Sanctius upon the place VISION IV. The Vision or Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks communicated to Daniel by the Angel Gabriel Chap. 9. 1. IN the first year of Darius the Son of Ahasuerus that is the Son of Cyaxares King of Media as the Greeks call him And Ctesias in Diodorus Siculus Biblioth Histor. lib. 2. p. 85. seems to call him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * which is very near to Assâ—…baras and consequently to Asuerus Which Cyaxares the Mede gave his daughter Nicrotis to Nebuchadnezzar the Son of Nabopolassar to Wife who therefore was the Sister of Darius the Mede as well as Mandane who was the Mother of Cyrus the Persian Of the séed of the Medes For he was Son to Cyaxares King of Media whom being an Infant in a manner his Father committed to the tutelage of Nebuchadnezzar his son in Law when he died together with his Kingdom over which Nebuchadnezzar set Astyages of near a kin to Nicrotis his Wife haply her Uncle but upon Nebuchadnezzar's death Cyrus rebell'd against Astyages by some intimation from his Uncle Darius and overcame him after he had reigned some Thirty five years in the Kingdom of Media and Persia and Darius had been kept out of it the time But Astyages being vanquished the Kingdom of Media was restored to Darius and Cyrus had the Kingdom of Persia for his pains See Tho. Lydiat his Emendatio Temporum Which was made King over the Realm of the Chaldeans succeeding immediately Belshazzar after Cyrus Nephew to Darius had taken Babylon and Belshazzar was slain Wherefore Darius was invested in the Kingdom of Babylon Cyrus his Nephew delivering it to him being then about Sixty two years of Age. And forasmuch as he lived from his infancy in Nebuchadnezzar's Court and Nicrotis Nebuchadnezzar's Wife was his Sister and was brought up as Nebuchadnezzar's Son and so haply called out of Courtship the Babylonian Empire seems still to have been continued in his Reign and he fitly to be called the King of the Chaldeans as Daniel the Prophet here styles him And yet notwithstanding Daniel comparing the Babylonish Captivity and the extirpation of Nebuchadnezzar's race by the Medes and Persians and that Cyrus being Commander in the war by name so predicted by the Prophet Isaiah he comparing these things I say with the commencement and duration of the Empire of Nebuchadnezzar and his Sons predefined by Ieremy the Prophet and with the time himself was first made captive which was in the Fourth year of Iehojakim King of Iudah and the first of Nebuchadnezzar when he was sent by his Father Nabopolassar with Regal power against Aegypt it came then into his mind that the expiration of the Seventy years Captivity of the Iews in Babylon was near at hand as it appears in the following Verse 2. In the first year of his Reign I Daniel understood by the Books For there was in the hands of the Iews then the Books of Moses and the Prophets that they might know their transgression punishment and time of appointed mercy The number of the years whereof the word of the Lord came to Ieremiah the Prophet Ierâ—…m 25. 11. 12. And this whole Land shall be a desolation and astonishment and it shall come to pass when Seventy years are accomplished I will punish the King of Babylon c. And the whole race of his Sons was exstinct in Belshazzar killed at the taking of Babylon by Cyrus And Ch. 27. ver 7. And all Nations says he shall serve him and his Son and his Son's Son until the very time of his land come And there was but Three successions Nebuchadnezzar himself Evil-Merodac his Son and Belshazzar his Son's Son according to the words of the Prophet slain at Cyrus his taking of Babylon Of whom Isaiah foretold by name what a Friend he would be to the Iews Isa. 44. 28. That saith of Cyrus He is my Shepherd c. That also of Jeremy Ch. 29. v. 10. is very express Thus saith the Lord of Hosts That after Seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place Wherefore Daniel seeing so plainly from these places of the Prophet sent to the Iews by God That he would accomplish Seventy years in the desolations
him But the Hebrew word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I conceive may very well be the same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vers 6. which signified Agreements And so Gasper Sanctius also expounds it But if it be not to be understood as before of a Covenant or Agreement but of men then the sense will be That Antiochus will bring along with him honest fair conditioned men and such as had a good repute withall to help to carry on the match betwixt his daughter Cassandra and Ptolemaeus Epiphanes Thus shall he do The Hebrew has it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he shall do that is It shall succeed And he shall give him the Daughter of women that is He shall give him his daughter Cassandra * the fairest of women and Coele Syria Phaenice Iudea and Samaria for a dowry with her Corrupting her that is infusing such principles into her if she would listen to him as might make her instrumental by treachery to her husband to get her father Antiochus the Kingdom of Aegypt But she shall not stand on his side or She shall not persist in such ways as her father would put her in Neither be for him She will make good her duty to her husband and be faithfull to him and loyal as to her husband and Prince and not be seduced by her father So that Antiochus his Politicks fell short of success in this design of marrying his daughter to Ptolemaeus Epiphanes though it was wisely enough done upon other regards to shew himself by this match to be a friend to whom the Roman Senate was a friend and also to strengthen his Interest by this alliance against the Romans if they proved his enemies But the Text is plain enough already 18. After this shall he turn his face unto the Isles Which he thought he might do with the better security having laid so firm a foundation of friendship with the King of Aegypt that worser plot which he was conscious of being kept to himself and Cassandra's piety to her father though she was loyal to her husband permitting her to discover nothing By the Isles are understood any maritime Towns as well as Islands properly so called in the Hebrew Idiom And he is recorded to have set himselâ—… to take the Sea towns of Thrace and Greece And shall take many even several Islands properly so called as Rhodus Samos Delos and Euboea See Grotius on the place but especially Calvin that tells the occasion of Antiochus his setting his face toward the Isles and how he came to be engaged in that war But a Prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease without his own reproach he shall cause it to return upon him This translation is something obscure and confused Grotius has rendred it out of the Hebrew into Latin very truly and cleverly thus Et cessare faciet Dux ipsius in se contumelias quinetiam contumelias illius in ipsum vertet that is A Commander shall cause to cease his that is Antiochus his reproach against him yea and moreover he shall return the reproach upon himself viz. upon Antiochus This is the easy and natural sense of the Hebrew Text. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is rightly turned in this place especially a Leader or Commander And both Gasper Sanctius Calvin Cornelius à Lapide and Grotius interpret this of Lucius Scipio the Roman Commander who brought it to pass that Antiochus should not onely no longer despise and slight the offers of the Roman Senate and infest their confederates with war which they took as a great affront but that the reproach at last should fall foully upon himself he being wholly vanquished by Lucius Scipio at Sipylus a Mountain in Asia Minor near the confines of Phrygia where fifty thousand of his men were slain and eleven thousand taken prisoners as Iustin writes and Antiochus brought to hard and dishonourable terms of peace whereby he was bound to have nothing more to do with any part of Europe nay that the Romans should have Asia and he rest content with the Kingdom of Syria that he should surrender all his ships and captives and also defray the expences of the war See Iustin lib. 31. He gave hostages also for performance of Covenant namely his two Sons Seleucus and Antiochus Epiphanes Thus was the reproach cast upon the Roman Power by Antiochus returned with usury upon himself at last 19. Then shall he turn his face toward the fort of his own land that is Toward the Frontiers of his own Kingdom Upon this passage Cornelius briefly thus out of St. Ierome Antiochus vanquished by the Romans and commanded to bound his Dominion within the Mountain Taurus went thence to Apamia Susa and other of the more remote parts of his Kingdom and then fighting with the Elymites he and his whole Army was destroyed according as it follows And he shall stumble and fall and not be found Impinget corruet Where Iâ—…pingere to stumble saith Grotius is as much as imprudenâ—…er se gerere to act rashly and imprudently For in Iustin lib. 32. cap. 2. it is recorded that Antiochus upon his robbing the Temple of Iupiter Didymaeus by night the thing being made known concursu Incolarum cum omni militia interfectus est Where Grotius ingeniously conjectures that for Didymaeus should be read Elymaeus Whence Saint Ierome's and Iustin's account will fall into one 20. Then shall stand up in his estate Shall succeed in his place by right of Inheritance Seleucus Philopator the elder son of Antiochus Magnus A raiser of Taxes For his luxury put him upon the greater exigencies as Calvin observes and we may be sure he would not spare the people who did not stick to rob the Temple of the money there deposited for pious uses who sent Heliodorus his Treasurer thither for that purpose 2 Maccab. 3. 10. In the glory of the Kingdom It is rather to be rendred upon the glory of the Kingdom that is upon the riches thereof For riches are the Political glory and decor of any Kingdom or people whenas Poverty makes them look sordidly and contemptibly But there is neither In nor Upon neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Hebrew but the Text runs thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is verbatim One that makes to pass up and down afflicters or oppressers of the beauty or glory of the Kingdom by exactions or Taxes understanding by the decor or glory of the Kingdom as before the riches thereof Of which Taxes besides his own luxury the expence of the war its being cast upon his father Antiochus by the Romans may be also an occasion or pretence c. But within few days he shall be destroyed Which implies he shall reign nothing near so long as his father Antiochus not passing a third part of his time the one reigning but 12 the other 37. years Neither in anger nor in battle Neither by