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Daniel 8:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT

This chapter marks the change from Aramaic to Hebrew. The character of the chapter is like that which immediately precedes it. It consists, like it, of the account of a vision, and the interpretation of it. The subject of this vision is the overthrow of the Persian monarchy by Alexander the Great, the division of his empire, and the oppression of Israel by Epiphanes.

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