Persia
was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
4. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward;
The Medo-Persian Empire embraced all the civilized nations of Asia
so that no beast might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he
Cyrus, and his descendants and next of kin
did according to his will, and became great.
5. And as I was considering, behold a he-goat
The Hellenes (Greece and her colonies)
came from the West on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.