The Macedonian Empire
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Philip king of Macedon subjugated the disunited Greek States at the battle of Chaeronea in B.C. 338, and Alexander the Great conquered a kingdom extending from Greece to India in B.C. 336.
7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,
Roman Empire.
and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse
a republic, not a kingdom
from all the beasts that were before it; and it had 10 horns.
verse 24, the rulers following the Jugurthine war.
8. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,