And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
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 he came to the ram that had two horns,.... Alexander being chosen and made by the states of Greece captain general of all Greece against the Persians, marched from thence with his army, passed the Hellespont, and entered into the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, signified by the ram with two horns, and came up to Darius Codomannus, possessed of this large monarchy...
standing before the river--Ulai. It was at the "river" Granicus that Alexander fought his first victorious battle against Darius, 334 B.C.