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shall not withstand, and all shall
yield to his will; he shall stand in the land of Israel, and it shall yield
to him. And thus he shall think to make himself master of all the empire of
Egypt, (despising the youth of Epiphanes, says Justin). "And for that he
shall make alliance with him, and give his daughter" (Cleopatra, in order
that she may betray her husband. On which Appian says that, doubting his
ability to make himself master of Egypt by force, because of the protection
of the Romans, he wished to attempt it by cunning). "He shall wish to
corrupt her, but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. Then
he shall turn his face to other designs, and shall think to make himself
master of some isles, (that is to say, seaports), "and shall take many," (as
Appian says).

"But a prince shall oppose, his conquests," (Scipio Africanus, who stopped
the progress of Antiochus the Great, because he offended the Romans in the
person of their allies), "and shall cause the reproach offered by him to
cease. He shall then return into his kingdom and there perish, and be no
more." (He was slain by his soldiers.)

"And he who shall stand up in his estate," (Seleucus Philopator or Soter,
the son of Antiochus the Great), "shall be a tyrant, a raiser of taxes in
the glory of the kingdom," (which means the people), "but within a few days
he shall be destroyed, neither in anger nor in battle. And in his place
shall stand up a vile person, unworthy of the honour of the kingdom, but he
shall come in cleverly by flatteries. All armies shall bend before him; he
shall conquer them, and even the prince with whom he has made a covenant.
For having renewed the league with him, he shall work deceitfully, and enter
with a small people into his province, peaceably and without fear. He shall
take the fattest places, and shall do that which his fathers have not done,
and ravage on all sides. He shall forecast great devices during his time."

723. Pr