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ucronnV'A66_rv.tllihglléllldhe saw, and which was the iirstsee in Elsvision, were the kings of Media and srsia.. And nowthis sameangel Gabriel has come the second time, andtells Daniel, plainly and distinctly, that he has eometnmake him " understand flu vision." What vision P Theone Daniel had in the beginning, in the 8th chapter.se'i'r?mic§i|ix' ilfm' hisen rie egins instructions bygiving 11 imseventy weeks of the vision, and than shows him, verse24, when his seventy weeks begin ; or, which is thesamething, " the mblbn." To read and understand thematter thus fin, infidelity itself must blush to deny thepremises.Then, if we have settled thisguestion, the next question would be, Which king of ersia, and what commandment?I answer, It must be the fifth king of Persianoted in the Scripture of truth; for the angel Gabriel,the third time he visited Daniel to give him skill andunderstanding into "thc vision,""says,But I will showthee that which is noted in the scripture of truth," Das.x.~21. This shows that he wasimtrocting Daniel intoa vision which he before had seen, and written in theScriptures. See Dan. vii. 1,"Then he wrote thedream, and told the sum of the matters." Dan. x. 14,"Now I em come to make thee understuul what shallbefallthydpeople in the latter days; foryetdie UMD# isfor many What vision P The onenoted in theScripture ap." o truth, says Gabriel. Then, in Dan. xi. 2,he begins his instruction to him of the anion, which hswas commanded by the voice between the hmks of Ulaino make him understand, b saying, "And now will *Ishow thee the truth. Behofd, there shailstandthree kings upéietin Persia; andthe fourth shall he farri erthan they all." This fourth king was the ram pushing,andwas theifthkingofPersin,belng thefourth fromCyrus, who was then standing up. See Dan. x. liThekiugf, as Ezra has named them in his'4th chapterand' 7 chapter,were, 1st;Cyx-ns; 2d,Ahasuerus;gd; A/rtaxerxes, 'St;iizel;i'trst _4th,mIga1i}|s; mit, Anusnesimanns; slmngfw gunmazxnent toiiznto acum-the captive Jswswhowerewilling to go to Jerusalem.