(918) Memorable, when after the overthrow of Jerufalem, Ise fafan ant Titpu,Emf.erours,had famo::fly criumphed,Cxfar writes fromRowe toTi6erisco Maximus, appointed governour , to make. faie ofall the land of the Jews: 7ifefl9.ofttie ?ci%,erWarre, lib.7.c.26, Hither,wrth- out do.:hr, had the Angel refped, giving us this, for an intallible mark of tf:ïs King, that no place may be left any more to doubt of his perfon. Ver': 4o..4ndat the time of ?he end, !hall the King ofthe South pug) ut bins.J Hitherto have we fpoken of the trf&ofthe three op- preffours, as we did diflringuifh them in the Analyfìs,or Refolution. Thefecond, and third, do follow the prophecy is but fhort in the fecond,very 1]+r ,le in the third,hecaufe it did more concern ch: Saints tobe very wehfortified again{( his tyranny,as we (hall fee in the ex- pofition. Our learned73rotqhron Both feparate thofe words from the former with a prefixed title, for the argument, inadiffering. character, to this purpofe. The third expedition ofAntiochsu into Egypt againft't.1ime/a Philometer. But we (hewed in the46. verfe before, that there was no fuch third expedition, which is grounded upon a wrong interpretationof the z?,verfeof this chap- ter, neither is it confirmed by the confentofany hiffory : alfo thefè words are flat againft it : for the King ofthe South l'nall provoke: this King, and fall upon himwith his fpightfull homes: but the King ofEgypt attemptednothing at all againft Axtiochus, from the time of his departure out ofhis country, at the commandement of the Ro- man Legat. TheTtolómies thought themfelves happy men, to be d'eliveredfrom fuch a grievous enemy, by the royal! authority ofthe Romanes, fo tar they were from provokinghim tobattell. Betides, this conflietihould be at the end of the King : but eAntiochtes to- ward his end had all his war again{( the Eymaitar..r orTerfans in the Eafi, not again&Ptolory in the South.. In the hundred forty andthird yeer of the Kingdomof the Greeks, he left Egypt, being thereto compelled by the authority ofthe Senate, at which time, in his retorne, he grievoufly tormented the Jews , but two yeersafter he raged molt cruelly, fending Apollonrus to. root out utterly the Iewifii religion, if it were pof ible. At the beginning of the hundred forty and feventh yeer,when he thought tobreak into Iudea,it fud- _denly come into his minds, to commit this taske toLyf:ar,and lélfto go firft into Perfia, from whence he never returned alive a-- aine intoSyria. Shallwe thru - uptogether fo many viaories , and thofeof fo mane
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