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Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a ram which had two horns stood before the river. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
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Verse 3. A ram. The empire of the Medes and Persians. Challoner. Worthington.—Cyrus, the founder, was allied to both.—Higher, denoting the Persians; or Hystaspes, and his posterity, the second branch of the royal family, which reigned to the end: whereas Cambyses was the only one of the race of Cyrus who succeeded to the throne. Others think that he alludes to Codomannus, whom Alexander certainly attacked.—Afterward is not in Hebrew S. Jerom supposed that another ram was designated, but it is the same.
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