Day 281 - Daniel 7-8

We should therefore concur with the traditional interpretation of all the commentators of the Christian church, that at the end of the world, when the Roman Empire is to be destroyed, there shall be ten kings who will partition the Roman world among themselves. Then an insignificant eleventh king will arise, who will overcome three of the ten kings, that is, the king of Egypt, the king of [North] Africa and the king of Ethiopia, as we shall show more clearly in our later discussion. Then, after they have been slain, the seven other kings also will bow their necks to the victor. “And behold,” he continues, “there were eyes similar to human eyes in that horn.” Let us not follow the opinion of some commentators and suppose him to be either the devil or some demon, but rather, one of the human race, in whom Satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form “… and a mouth uttering overweening boasts.…” [See 2 Thess 2.] For this is the man of sin, the son of perdition, and that also to such a degree that he dares to sit in the temple of God, making himself out to be like God—St Jerome