2. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
The known world.
3. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Symbolical of Four powerful dynasties.
B.C. 490.
4. The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings:
Medo-Persian empire.
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked,
Persia defeated by Greece at Marathon.
and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given unto it.