The exposicion of Daniel the prophete gathered oute of Philip Melanchton, Iohan Ecolampadius, Chonrade Pellicane [and] out of Iohan Draconite. [et] c. By George Ioye. A prophecye diligently to be noted of al emprowrs [and] kinges in these laste dayes

But at the apoynted tyme he shall ••nuade ayen the south kingdome / but yet shall not the last viage be lyke the firste. For y^e shippes of Cyprie shal come ayenst him / and make him astonned. And then shall he returne with great indignacion & anger ayenst the holy couenant / where vpon (his pleasure taken) he shall loke about him / and ioyne vnto him the tray∣tours of the holy couenant.

That is to saye: Aftir two yeres Philo meter his neuye espying more clerely the fraudes of his auuncle went vnto Alexā driam vnto Disconem his brother / & ob∣tayned helpe of the Romās to recouer his lost cities / & thus accouraged of the Ro∣mans

he expressed his auuncles syriake hoste and armye there lefte in his cheife cities of Egypte / receyuing his cities in∣to his owne defence / asking helpe & ayde of the Romans / wherfore now cryed his auūcle open warre ayenst him returning a fresshe with a greate armye into the coo s••es of Egypte. But this viage was not lyke the former / for it was in vayne & his cruell false purpose frustrated by Popili{us} the ambassadour from Rome which with his spere drewe a circle about Antiochus there he stode / compessinge him to geue a playne answere ere he wolde suffer him once to stepe out thereof / here Antiochus auoidid with shame and anger / nothinge done of him / wherfore the aungell sayth: The nauey of cyprie or cithin / which we∣re the Romane shippes oute of Italie. It foloweth. And he shall returne with indignacion in a furye &c. That is / aftir that antioc be thus afrayd / he shall in a great anger returne into Syria. And in this his seconde returne he shall do more vylanie to the temple and to Ierusalem then he did before. For now he setted vp the image of Iupiter Olimpii in the tem ple / & forbode circumcision with an open proclamacion / he brent the holy bokis of the lawe and prophetis / and constituted

synfull playes and all beastly haithen vi∣gilies and stewes to be haunted in y^e cite / drinkinge dronken in the honor of their goddis Bacchus and ••enus. He slewe y^e godly men which wold not consent to his idols and image seruice and to their hei∣then filthynes. He / by the bisshhops coū∣sell left there an armye of men to defende all this idolatry and heithen viciouse abo minacions / and to presse downe the trwe religion instituted of god. And how grea∣te and greuouse was the persecucion and destruccion of y^e iewes comon weall and trwe religion by this anticryst thus coun seled and prouoked by the bisshops Iason and Menelaius the story of the Macha∣beis tell it. Now see whether Popis and bisshops haue not ensenced lyke Antio∣ches vnto the same synfull factes this daye. For it foloweth.

Notes

• Text.
• Of Anti och{us} se∣cond co∣ming in∣to Ieru∣salem.
• Popili{us}.
• Antioch his se∣cond co∣ming to Ierusal.