He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.
Daniel solemnly attests: the vision came to him, even to him. Foreseeing the fall of kingdoms hereafter will steady us against the upheavals in our own day, for what is done shall be done again.
AI summary
Commenting on Daniel 8:1-14
Alexander, made captain general of Greece, marched into Asia and came upon Darius at the Ulai river near Shushan, where Darius stood in his royal majesty, unconcerned, thinking himself secure against so puny an adversary. Alexander's haste and the heat of his power, that incredible ardour of mind with which he advanced, exactly match what the sacred text describes.
AI summary
standing before the river--Ulai. It was at the "river" Granicus that Alexander fought his first victorious battle against Darius, 334 B.C.