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Daniel 8:3

Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

A ram. The empire of the Medes and Persians. (Challoner) (Worthington) Cyrus, the founder, was allied to both. Higher, denoting the Persians; or Hystaspes, and his posterity, the second branch of the royal family, which reigned to the end: whereas Cambyses was the only one of the race of Cyrus who succeeded to the throne. Others think that he alludes to Codomannus, whom Alexander certainly attacked. Afterward is not in Hebrew. St. Jerome supposed that another ram was designated, but it is the same.

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