Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 3

BAlthasar regned in caldea and in Babyloyne in his first yere daniel sawe his iiij sighte of the iiij wyndes in the see that is four angels of the four beestes. Of the lyon the bere the pardus and the boor that is of the four chefe kyngdoms of the world and of the ten hornes that is of the other ten smal kynge¦doms that sprang oute of the fourth beeste· and shold be subdu¦ed of a lytel horne that is Antecrist Petrus 163 ¶This ante∣criste vnworthy of the lygnage of dan. shalbe borne of the seed of fader and of moder in a derke place of Babylone and after that he is conceyned an euyl spyryte shal lyght in to his moders wombe and by vertu of him the child shal afterward be yned born and waxen and be cleped the child of losse dr of lesyng And thre of the firste ten hornes be smyten of his face that is to say he shal slee first thre kynges of thylk ten the kyng of Affri¦ca the kyng of Egypte & the kyng of ethyopia & then the other seuen kynges shal yelde them to that fals vyctour antecrist· He shal haue wonder wytte and connynge for by wytchecrafte he shal worche wonders and fynde tresour that is hidde· He shal circumside hym and clepe him self messias that is cast Iewes shal falle to hym and he shal buylde the temple ayene and sette his trone therinne / he shal torne men to hym with drede with yef¦tes and with wonder werkes that he shal worche / He shal slee

Enoc & hely he shal greue god almyghties holy people that shal be bitaken vnto his hande vnto the tyme and tymes and halfe a tyme that is vnto a yere and two yeres and half a yere·

¶ And Remigius seyth that Antecrist shal feyne hym deed and aryse agayne But atte laste criste shal slee hym owther by his owne hecst or by seruyce of seynt michael tharchangel ¶And Ieronimus super danielem saith that Antecrist shal be slayn in his owne tente in the monut of Olyuete where crist as∣cended in to heuen And Remygius sayth that crist shal not come vnto the dome till Antecrist be slayn but men that shal be saued shal haue fyf and fourty dayes for to doo penaūce· Therfor take hede that though it be wryten in mathewe & in marc. 13 / that no man knoweth that houre but the fader allone / yet goddes sonne knoweth itfor he is the same god that is the fader. But therfor it is sayde that he knoweth it not for he maketh not vs knowe it that be his lymmes and holy chirche her in erthe ¶ It is not spedeful to vs to knowe that day Austyn in glosa sayth / The last day is vnknowen to vs for we sholden bewar of all and soo we shulden lyue alway as though we sholden be demed to day· or to morow Trogus libro secundo ¶About that tyme at Athe¦ne after the deth of salon the wise one Phisistratus botte him self that he bledde and sayd that the grete maystres hadden beten him soo for loue that he had to the peple and comyntee ¶ Therfor were many knyghtes assigned to kepe him and he regned at a∣thene four and thyrtty yere Pol̄ libro octauo ¶The wyf of this egged him for to slee one that had kysshed his doughter. in the high wey and he answerd and sayde. yf we 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them that louen vs what shal we doo to hem that haten vs / ¶ Daniel sa∣we the fyfthe sighte and visyon of the whether or sheep that had hornes not alle lyke / that is to vnderstande of the kyngdome of medes and of perses and of goot buck that is the grete Alysan¦der that was drad and bytokened by that buk and on hym gre∣we four hornes that were his successours One lytel horne that is Anthyochus epyphanus come of one of the four hornes for he come of Selencus that was somtyme plegge and prysonner at Rome / but he escaped thens and wente and warred in the kyngdom and defowled the temple. The sixth sight of daniel was whan Balthasar with his concubynes drank of the vessel of the temple of oure lord· the whiche vessayle his grauntsyre the gre••e nabugodonosor had krought out of Iherusalem·

Balthasar sawe an hand wryte byfore hym on the walle these wordes / Mane techil Phares / that is to vnderstonde nōbre wight and delyng whiche daniel expouned and sayde god hath tolde & nombred thy kyngdom that is now fulfilled / For the first thou art weyen in a balance and founden that thou hast lasse that is thou lyuest lasse while than thou wendest For the second· thy kyngdom is deled from the and yeuen to the perses ¶ ffor the third than the same nyght cirus and darius come and toke the cyte babylon and slough balthasar Oracius whan Cirus had wonne the eeste landes and come toward Babyloyn / the Ryuer Eufrates let hym and a bold knyght and a fayr that the kyng loued wel auentured hym in to the water and was drowned Than the kyng was sory and wroth and made his auowe / that he wold make that grete Riuer so shalde withoute depnesse that the water sholde not come to womens knees / that wolde wade ouer Therfor in the brode feldes he departed the Ryuer in foure honderd and thre score chanels and so destroyed the Ryuer that was woonte to renne thurgh the myddel of Babyloyne and so enemyes wente in and toke the cyte that me wold wene myght not be buyld ne destroyed by mannes dede ¶ Petrus 165 / Somme wryte that Balthasars moder for whome the orchard suspensilis was made was darius doughter and for Balthasar had no sonne darius Cyrus came socyed and ioyned to Cyrus. occupyed that kyngdom Petrus 166 ¶Whan Balthasar was slayne / Darius torned the kyngdome of Babyloyne and of cal∣dea to the perses and medes That yere befell the seuenth vysion of danyel / For danyel sued darius til he was done and putt in to the pyt••e of lyons in medea for that he worshipped god And the same yere befelle the echt auision of danyel for the An∣gel gabryel certefyed him of the fynal takyng and bondage co¦mynge by the Romaynes ¶ And of the comyng of Crist after seuenty wekes of yeres· For Gabryel sayd seuenty short wekes be vpon thy people / that be wekes sette not of dayes but of yeres. So that one weke conteyned seuen yere ¶And he sayd shorte wekes For we sholde vnderstande yeres of the mone / and not of the sonne For a yere of the mone is shorter by xj dayes than an yere of the sonne Treuisa ¶A yere of the sonne is from a day of the yere to the same another yere but an yere of the mone is from pryme in a monethe of the yere to· the firste prime in the same moneth of another yere & that wyl be enleuen dayes rather

in the second yere than in the first yere / Ensample whan pryme goth by one than fallyth the pryme the thre and twenty day of Ianuary and the next yere after it shal falle the xij day of Ianuary. And that is enleuen dayes rather Than it sueth in this¦tory / Than seuenty wekes of yeres of the sonne maketh foure honderd yere four score and ten / Beda rekeneth this seuenty we∣kes of yeres of the Mone from the twenty yere of Artaxzerses the kyng that yere neomyas had leue and bylde the temple vn¦to the xviij yere of Tiberius cezar / that yere crist suffred deth Affrycanns history acordeth with bede touchyng the begynnyng but he endeth the seuenty wekes in the xv yere of Tiberius Ce∣sar in that yere crist was baptysed. ¶ Tercullianus rekene••h this yeres from the firste yere of Darius. that yere was goddes worde shewed to danyel til titus destroyed the temple. ¶ The ix auysyon of Danyel was of a man clothed in lynnen whos bodye was of Crisolitus / And the tenth sighte was of the after fo∣lowyng of the kynges of Perse and of kynge Alysaundres suc¦cessours and of antecrist ¶Danyel sawe the thyrd yere of cyrus kyng of Perse R It is vncertayne how long daniel lyued but nethles me redeth in the first chapyt••e of his booke that he dured vnto the firste yere of Cyrus