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When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.
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Verse 4. These four; Ptolemy, Seleucus, Antigonus, and Antipater, kings of Egypt, Syria, Asia, and Greece. Calmet. 7:6 and 8:22. Besides the other generals, ( Calmet.) foreigners began to erect new kingdoms in what had formed the empire of Alexander. Saint Jerome Livy xlv. Calmet.
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