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“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.
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Verse 23. Shameless. Hebrew “hard,” cruel, and impudent, as Epiphanes was. 1 Maccabees 1:2. Marcellinus styles him “wrathful and savage.”—Sentences, making use of artifice to seize the estates of his nephew Philometor, and to oppress the Jews. 2 Maccabees 5:24. Calmet.—The history speaks of Antiochus: antichrist is also meant, as Calmet. 12 and Matthew 24. Worthington.
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