Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
Now God shews his Prophet what peculiarly concerned the welfare of his Church. For it was of very great importance to warn the Jews of the calamities which were about to oppress them. There is nothing which more torments the minds of men than their becoming bewildered in false imaginations, and thinking the world the sport of chance, while they never ponder over the providence...
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
And out of one of them came forth a little horn,.... Meaning not the kingdom of Titus Vespasian, as Jarchi; nor the kingdom of the Turks, as Saadiah; but the kingdom of Antiochia, as Aben Ezra and Jacchiades; or rather Antiochus Epiphanes, who sprung from the kingdom of the Seleucidae in Syria, or from Seleucus king of Syria, one of the four horns before mentioned...