 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1841 - 352 pages
...forth a little horn,} which waxed exceeding great, towards the South, and towards the East, and towards the pleasant land." This is Antiochus Epiphanes, who...God was the strength and the protector. The prophet afterwards points out the war which Epiphanes proclaimed against the people of God, the priests of... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1841 - 522 pages
...forth a little horn,' which waxed exceeding great, towards the South, and towards the Kast, and towards the pleasant land." This is Antiochus Epiphanes, who...God was the strength and the protector. The prophet afterwards points out the war which Epiphanes proclaimed against the people of God, the priests of... | |
 | 1841 - 484 pages
...with inflated hyperbole, in which the Mahometans boast, and call it sublime. (2.) The horn was to wax great toward the south and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. This was precisely the direction of the Mahomedan conquests; and "so remarkably (says Mr. Habershon) have... | |
 | Joshua William Brooks - Bible - 1841 - 364 pages
...with inflated hyperbole, in which the Mahometans boast, and call it sublime. (2.) The horn was to wax great toward the south and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. This was precisely the direction of the Mahomedan conquests; and "so remarkably (says Mr. Habershon) have... | |
 | Christianity - 1842 - 832 pages
...9, the prophet writes — ' And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Here again, the pleasant land, or Judea, is placed as distinctly separate from the east, as it is from... | |
 | William Miller - Adventists - 1841 - 332 pages
...horn. " And out of one of them (that is, out of Europe) came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great even to the host of heaven ; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - New Jerusalem Church - 1842 - 290 pages
...it came up four notable ones. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant (land,) — even to the host of heaven ; and it cast down of the host, and of the stars, to the ground, and... | |
 | Bible - 1842 - 540 pages
...WINDS OF HEAVBN. Verses 9— 12. And out of one of them came forth a little burn, which WAXED EXCEEDING GREAT, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven ; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Missions - 1842 - 432 pages
...an apostacy from Christianity. The description corresponds with historic fact. " It waxed exceeding great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land." We know how suddenly it planted itself in Syria, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. Its incursions were... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...the church and of the world, that Mahomet arose, first as a little horn, but soon waxing " exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land." Ver. 9. The character attributed to this symbolic being, both in the vision and in the interpretation,... | |
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And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven ; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the... 
