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The .vii. Chapter.

1 A vision of foure beastes is shewed vnto Daniel. The vision is interpreted of foure kingdomes of the worlde. 27 Of the euerlasting kingdome of Christe.

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1 IN the first yere of Bal∣thasar king of Baby∣lon, sawe Daniel a dreame, & there were visions in his head vp∣on his head: which (a) 1.1 dreame he wrote, & de∣clared the summe of the matter,

2 Daniel spake and saide: I sawe in my vision by night, and beholde, the foure b 1.2 windes of heauen stroue vpon the great sea,

3 And foure great beastes came vp from the sea, one diuers from another.

4 The first was as a (c) 1.3 lion, and had E∣gles winges: I beheld till his winges were pluckt from him, and he lifted vp from the earth, & set vpon his feete like a man, & there was geuen him a mans heart.

5 Behold an other beast, [which was] the second, was lyke a (d) 1.4 beare, and stoode vpon the one side: betwixt his teeth in his mouth he had three ribbes, and it was saide vnto him thus: Arise, eate vp much fleshe.

6 Then I loked, and beholde, there was another lyke vnto a (e) 1.5 leopard, this had winges as a foule, euen (f) 1.6 foure vpon the backe: this beast had foure heads, and there was power geuen him.

7 After this I saw in a vision by night, & beholde, the fourth beast was grimme and horrible, and marueylous strong▪ it had great iron teeth, it deuoured & de∣stroyed, & stamped the residue vnder his feete, it was vnlike y^e other beastes that were before it, for it had (g) 1.7 ten hornes.

8 As I considered the hornes, beholde, there came vp among them another lit∣tle horne,(g) 1.8 before whom there were three of the first hornes pluckt away: and be∣hold, this horne had eyes lyke the eyes of a man, & a mouth speaking presump∣tuous thinges.

9 I behelde till the thrones were set vp, & the (h) 1.9 auncient of dayes did sit: whose garment was white as snowe, and the heeres of his head lyke the pure wooll: his throne was like the firie flambe, and his (i) 1.10 wheeles as burning fire.

10 There issued foorth a firie streame, and went out from before him: a thousand thousandes ministred vnto him, and ten thousand thousandes stoode before him: the iudgement was set, & the (k) 1.11 bookes opened.

11 Then toke I heede therunto, because of the voyce of the proude words which the horne spake: I behelde till the beast was slaine, and his body destroyed, and geuen to be brent in the fire.

12 As concerning the other beastes, they had their dominion taken away, but their liues were prolonged for a certaine time and season.

[unspec C] 13 I saw in visions by night, and behold there came (l) 1.12 one in the cloudes of hea∣uen, lyke the sonne of man: which went vnto the aūcient of dayes, before whom they brought him.

14 And he gaue him dominion & honour, and a kingdome, that al people, nations, and languages should serue him: his do∣minion is an euerlasting dominion which shall neuer be taken away, and his kingdome shall neuer be destroyed.

15 I Daniel was troubled in my spirite in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head made me afrayde.

16 I gate me vnto (m) 1.13 one of them that stoode by, and asked him the trueth con∣cerning all these thinges: so he tolde me, and made me vnderstand the interpre∣tation of these thinges.

17 These great beastes which are foure, are foure kinges which shall arise out of the earth:

18 But the (n) 1.14 high saintes shall receaue a kingdome, and possesse a kingdome for euer, euen for euer and euer.

19 After this, I required to knowe the trueth concerning y^e fourth beast, which was so vnlyke the other beastes, and so [unspec D] horrible, whose teeth were of iron, and his nayles of brasse, which deuoured and destroyed, and stamped the residue vnder his feete:

20 [I desired] also [to knowe the trueth] as touching the ten hornes that he had vp∣on his head, and this other which came vp afterwarde, before whose face there fell downe three, which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, and loked with a grimmer vi∣sage then his (o) 1.15 felowes.

21 I behelde, and the same horne made battaile against the sainctes, yea & pre∣uayled against them.

22 Vntil the auncient of dayes came that the iudgement was geuen to the high sainctes, and till the time came that the sainctes had the kingdome in possession.

23 He gaue me this aunswer: That fourth beast, shalbe the fourth kingdome vpon earth, it shalbe vnlike to all the king∣domes: it shall deuour, treade downe, and destroy all other landes.

24 The ten hornes, are ten kinges that shall arise out of that kingdome: after whom there shall stande vp another, which shalbe vnlike to the first, and he shall subdue three kinges:

25 And he shall speake wordes against the highest of all, he shall destroy the high sainctes, and thinke that he may [unspec E] chaunge times and lawes: they shalbe geuen into his hande vntill a time, and times, and the deuiding of a time.

26 But the iudgement shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to con∣sume and destroy it vnto the ende.

27 And the kingdome and dominion, & the greatnes of the kingdome vnder the whole heauē, shalbe geuen to the (p) 1.16 peo∣ple of high sainctes, whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and all pow∣ers shal serue and obey it.

28 Hitherto the ende of the wordes: I Daniel had many cogitations [which] troubled me, & my coūtenaūce chaun∣ged in me: but the wordes I kept still in my heart.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  Whereas the people of Israel loked for a continu∣all quietnes after these se∣uentie yeres, as Ieremie had declared: he sheweth that this rest should not be a deliueraunce from all trou∣bles, but a be∣ginning: and therefore mo∣ued them to loke for a con∣tinual afflicti∣on, til y^e Mes∣sias be vtte∣red & reuealed by whom they shoulde haue a spiritual deli∣ueraunce, and all the promi∣ses fulfilled▪ whereof they should haue a certaine token in the destruc∣tion of the ba∣••onical king¦dome.
• b 1.2

  Which sig∣nified that there shoulde be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 troubles and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• (c) 1.3

  The beastes are kinges, kingdomes, or monarchies: By the lion▪ the kingdome of Babylon is vnderstanded, which speedy∣ly vanquished the nations adioyning: but after his winges were pluckt and his kingdome ta∣ken away, he returned to the condition of a man, and no lion.
• (d) 1.4

  The se∣cond monar∣chie of the Persians and Medes.
• (e) 1.5

  The third monarchie of the Macedo∣nians.
• (f) 1.6

  That is, his foure chiefe cap∣taines, which had the em∣pire after his death deuided among them.
• (g) 1.7

  That is, the Romane empire, which was as a mon∣ster▪ •• coulde not be compa∣red to any beast, because the nature of none was a∣ble to expresse it.
• (g) 1.8

  Which signifie ten kinges, as verses. 24.
• (h) 1.9

  That is, God, which was before all times.
• (i) 1.10

  So was the maner in olde time of princes thrones, to be made so, that they might be moued and re∣moued the easelier.
• (k) 1.11

  This is ment of the first comming of Christe, when as the wyll of God was plainely reuealed by his gospell.
• (l) 1.12

  Which is mēt of Christ who had not yet taken vp∣on him mans nature, nei∣ther was the sonne of Da∣uid according to the flesh, as he was after∣warde, but appeared then a figure, and that in the cloudes.
• (m) 1.13

  Meaning, of the angels, as verse. x.
• (n) 1.14

  That is▪ Gods elect people, which in all h••u•• kingdome and church to con¦tinue •• for¦euer.
• (o) 1.15

  That is, the three other em¦pires
• (p) 1.16

  That is, to the church.