Of keeping close these Prophecies.
* 1.1 [ 4] And thou Daniel, shut vp the words, and seale the booke, till the ende of the time. Many will search through, and this knowledge shall encrease.
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* 1.1 [ 4] And thou Daniel, shut vp the words, and seale the booke, till the ende of the time. Many will search through, and this knowledge shall encrease.
The like cō∣mandement was giuen. chap. 8.26. Where Elam and Mada••, and Iauan were named. Here though they be not na∣med, they are so plainly described, that any learned heathen would tell right∣ly what kingdomes must be meant. Now that the Prophet should not sorow for closing such profitable matter, he is comforted: that when these matters out: many will search further to abound in knowledge: as the Iewes in the Machabees are testified to haue done. And Romanes too deale with these matters, as Vergil, Aeg. 4. Polybius, Dion Cassius, Tacitus and many others, and Porphyrie in Eusebius commendeth the Iewes skill in Prophecie, which doubtlesse this booke gaue them: to tell euents for these dayes.