And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to their fullness, a king of bold countenance, and understanding riddles, shall stand up.
Read Chapter 8
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Shameless. Hebrew: "hard "cruel, and impudent, as Epiphanes was, 1 Machabees i. 2. Marcellinus styles him "wrathful and savage. "
Sentences, making use of artifice to seize the estates of his nephew Philometor, and to oppress the Jews, 2 Machabees v. 24. (Calmet)
The history speaks of Antiochus: antichrist is also meant, as chap. xii. and Matthew xxiv. (Worthington)
