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A16852	A most comfortable exposition of the last and most difficult part of the prophecie of Daniel from the 26. verse of the 11. chap, to the end of the 12. chapter. Wherin the restoring of the Iewes and their callinge to the faith of Christ, after the utter overthrow of their three last enemies, is set forth in livelie coulours, by the labour and studie of that bright and worthie man of God, Thomas Brightman Englishman & once fellowe of Queenes College in Cambridge.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.	1635 (1635)	STC 3753; ESTC S117062	70,294	116

and increase with glory and hee shall cause them to rule ever many and shall divide the land for gaine 40. And at the time of the end shall the King of the South push at him and the King of the North shall come against him like a whirlewinde with charets and with horsemen and with many ships and he shall enter into the countreys and shall overflow and passe over 41. Hee shall enter also into the glorious land and many countreys shall bee overthrowne but these shall escape out of his hand even Edom and Moab and the chiefe of the children of Ammon 42. He shall stretch foorth his hand also vpon the countreys and the land of Egypt shall not escape 43. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steppes 44. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him therefore hee shall goe forth with great fury to destroy and vtterly to make away many 45. And hee shall plant the tabernacles of his palace betweene the seas in the glorious holy mountaine yet hee shall come to his end and none shall helpe him Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my rock and my Redeemer THE ANALYSIS or Resolution DAniel recordeth things done in the first six chapters afterward in the rest of the booke visions and revelations shewed to him wherin is disclosed what the people of the Iewes are to expect from that time to the very last end Of the Revelations he first propoundeth the universall type of thinges to come in Chap 7. in those following he vseth a larger declaration of the first both as it did agree with the next times in regard either of the enemies chap. 8. or of the Messias in cha 9. As also it did agree to all times by a continued order and succession from his owne time to the full deliveraunce of his nation Of this last and plentifull Prophecie the preparation is set downe in the tenth chapt then afterward the thinge it self in the two followinge chapters 11. and 12. From the beginning of the 11. chap. vnto this place the matters of the Persians and Grecians are so manifestly particularly and expressly foreshewed that in very deed it may seeme rather a Historie then a prophecie That which remaineth doth partly shewe the other oppressors of the people of the Iewes in this Chap. partly that wished end of all their troubles in the following There are three oppressors sett downe The first a certaine Kinge described without anie addition of his dominion how farre it stretched but summarily both of an unlimited power toward strangers most proude and prosperous till the appointed time vers 36. and also towards his owne a contemner of his Countries and fathers religion without naturall affections and exalting himself above all vers 37. After perticularly as he should be famous for some speciall acts partly in the matter concerning Religion vers 38. and beginning of the next and partly in politicke affaires in the later part of vers 39. The second is the King of the South vers 40. The third is the King of the North who is happye in his preparation vers 40. in his proceeding vers 41. and largenes of his dominion ver 42.43 but is unhappye in the feare of dolefull tidinges in his wicked purpose and resolution of minde v. 44. and last of all in his going forth and end vers 45. THE SCHOLIA or Exposition Vers 36. And the King shall doe what him list or according to his will WEe have often times made mention of Daniel in the Revelation and the Canticles whose testimonie what force it hath to those thinges for which we alledged it cannot be sufficiently vnderstood except we repeate it from the beginning and take vpon us the full handling of a very obscure place of scripture and much controverted amongst learned men which truly I doe the more willingly vndertake because being holpen by the light of former expositions we hope we shal be able to bring somthing by Gods assistaunce to cleere the truth and bring it to light Neither doe I doubt but it will be very acceptable to the godlie and learned to see Daniels consent with the rest and the lovelie face of the truth to be brought vpon the stage in open view with whose bewtie the most heavenlie minded are especially ravished yea and which even the vulgar sort of men though vnskilfull beholders and judges of beawtie are also astonished therat Every vision hath difficultie in it but he must have leisure at will that vndertaketh the whole work but these last visions being well vnderstood on which doth rest the exposition of the former those also that goe before may be easily conceived We begin the exposition from the 36. verse because there are not manie thinges in the former verses need to staie or hinder the Reader but those which followe are much doubted of whether they belong to Antiochus Epiphanes or to some other Kinge Wel and rightly in my judgment doth Calvin avouch That it can by no meanes be referred to Antiochus Those thinges that followe doe not anie wise agree for how should he doe what he list by exalting himselfe above all that is God whom the shippes of Chittim limited and prescribed vers 30. Neither did the Kings of Egypt being younge attempte anie thinge against Antiochus Neither was there anie King of the North by whom he susteined anie wrong to speak of Or if we shall make Antiochus himself the King of the North as some interpreters doe Neither doth the King of the South provoke him as it foloweth vers 40. Neither did he returne into Egypte after he was commaunded to depart by the Romanes as vers 30. before The historie recordeth that he went twice into Egypt as 2. Maca. 5.1 About the same time Antiochus vndertook his second voyage into Egypt wherin he doth admirably agree with Daniel but of a third expedition not agry or the least mention in anie Authour that I could finde The Authours of the books of the Macabees would have made some mentiō therof if there had bene anie Neither wold Iosephus have let it passe who after the retturne of Antiochus out of Egypte by reason of the Romanes threatning denounced doth mention nothing at all that was againe attempted against that Countrie before his death among the Persians Livie also who sheweth him to be restrained by Popilius the legate lib. 45. of his Epitomies abridgement declareth him in the next book to be dead without doing anie other memorable exploite Iustice also after he had declared the tarntesse and rigour of Popilius telleth us that Antiochus died assbone as he was returned into his Kingdome was it possible such a notable expedition could be taken in hand wherin so manie nations were overthrowne and great alterations came

delivered frō such a grievous enimie by the royall authoritie of the Romanes so farre they were from provoking him to battaile Besides this conflict should be at the end of the Kinge but Antiochus toward his end had all his warre against the Eymaitans or Persians in the east not against Ptoleemie in the south In the hundred fortie third yeere of the Kingdome of the Greekes hee left Egypt being therto compelled by the authoritie of the Senate at which time in his returne he grievously tormented the Iewes but two yeeres after he raged most cruelly sending Apollonius to root out utterly the Iewish religion if it were possible At the beginning of the hundred fortie and seventh yeere when he thought to break into Iudea it sodeinly came into his minde to commit this taske to Lysias and himselfe to go first into Persia from whence he never returned alive againe into Syria Shall wee thrust up together so maine victories and those of so manie nations which the angel attributeth to the King of the north into such narrow streights of three yeeres and a few monthes more at the most and in the meane time not think them worthie of one wordes celebration or praise by the historiographers Antiochus surely after the Romanes had restrayned him from making warre where he listed and that he must of necessitie lay downe his weapons seemeth to give himself over to that monstrous ryot which Atheneus describeth in the wordes of Polybius He had monie enough for that wondrous pompe after he had robd the temple of Ierusalem of a thousand eight hundred talents in his returne out of Egypt wherwithall in the pride haughtinesse of his heart he imagined he could make the land navigable and the sea passable on foote 2. Macab 5.21 And what else now should such a man doe borne to no thriftines but to wallow himselfe in the myre puddle of his owne filthie pleasures who had an injunction for cessation of armes And so Polib in Athen. Dipnoseph li. 5. All these thinges saith he were brought to passe partly by those thinges which he had scraped together out of Egypt after he had deceived the young king Philomether with a feigned league partly by the help of his friendes but he had pilled also very manie temples But to make short All the noble acts which are herafter rehearsed of the king of the north doe call us back to some other beside Antioch We are not to think that the Iewes calamities had an end in this one mās tyrānie or that they needed no other caution against the ensuinge evils The Angel sweareth in the revelatiō that that should be finished which God had promised by his prophets in times past when the seventh Angel soundeth c. 10.7 this sōnd is the last period of time which shal put an end to all prophecies Rev. 10.7 But among the Prophets there is not anie one to whom God hath imparted at anie time more plentifull revelations either of longer continaunce or of more exact knowledge of all particular matters then unto Daniel neither is it likely that there should be no remainder of comfort in the prophecies for the people of God whom we know he hath determined at the length to joyne to his Church when he hath gathered the remnants together These things doe I speak to this end because I see other learned men to restreine those things which followe within the boundes of Christs incarnation howsoever they confesse ingenuously and confime by arguments that they can no waies agree to Antiochus But I trow it shall evidenly appeere to anie man embracing the truth without contention that it is the purpose of the spirit in this place to comprise in a short abridgement the whole estate of the people of the Iewes in a continuall orderly succession even to the second comming of Christ Let us come therfore to the wordes The time of the end wherof mention is made in the first place sheweth manie middle matters to be overpassed and that a passage is made to the last thinges yet not to the last and vtter ruine of this King the Romane Emperour but to his sliding glorie and end of his vnbrideled power wherby of late he did whatsoever he pleased Neither did anie remarkable accident fall out besides those thinges already spoken of after the defacing of the Citie and scattering of the nation by Adrian which handled the remainders of this people in like maner as Vespasian had their fathers not manie yeares before Iustly therfore doth he passe with so swift a course from those times to the weakened and decayed empire A litle before the end therfore of the flourishing Romane empire the King of the south that is the Saracens shall encounter him which with their Captaine Mahomet did first make an invasion into the Romane Dominion out of Arabia and the southerlie places neere adjoyninge The beginning of this hostile and violent assault was about the yeere six hundred and thirtie which in short time fel out so happily vnto them that within lesse then thirty yeeres they got from the Romane empire Ierusalem all Syria Africa and the greater Asia The Spirit doth fitly liken this nation to a beast that striketh with his hornes jithbag 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he He shall push at him he shall so wantonly and proudly insult neyther with ill successe nor with lesse force then the wilde beasts use to doe whose strength is all in their hornes Great was the insolencie of the Agarens who hearing that Constance the Emperour had prepared a navie against them staid not till he should pursue and invade them but presently came flyeing vpon him into Phenice in Lycia and overcame him in a great battayle by sea Zonar Constans Afterward for seven years together they vexed his sonne Constantinus Pogonatus and in their great pride bent all their forces against the royall Citie which they most eagerly assaulted as manie years almost as the Grecians did Troy of old as scorning the lesser townes and judging the mistrisse alone worthy to the which they might intend their journey with earnest desire But thou wilt saie then If the Spirit would fall downe into these times why doth he passe over the Goths Vandals Scythians and the other northerne rude and barbarous people by whose invasions this Romane King was weakned and wearied before these Saracens fel vpon him Because it was his purpose to touch those oppressours onely which should be troublesome to the people of the Iewes which suffred no great losse by this wasting of Europe most of them remaining in Africa and Asia In which places being free from the Romane yoake they served a new slaverie by submitting themselves to the basest Agarens So the holie land in times past the Iewes countrie fel vnder their dominion at length The Spirit therfore maketh mention especially of these by whom the Iewes were to suffer most hardship Neither doth he in this place detect the