Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 7:8

8 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn , before whom there were three of the first horns pluckt up by the roots : and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things .

Daniel considered, and this calls upon us to consider the matter.

Some will have the Turk meant, others before him, Antiochus Epiphanes, others Iu[illegible: 1 letter]ius Caesar, others Antichrist. Its certain the horn that riseth out of the He-goat, is Antiochus, Dan. 8.9, 10, 11, 12. but the horn here mentioned riseth out of the fourth Beast, or under him. Therefore he must be the Turk as some will have it, or the Romi[illegible: 1 letter]h Antichrist; not the Turk, being the Horn signified only one King, ver. 24. 2. He must gain all the 4th. Kingdom▪ 3. He must reign before the Kingdom of Christ is erected.

Some will have Aegypt, Asia, and Greece to be the 3 which are possessed by the Turk; but though he hath got the Egyptian and Constantinopolitan which are two, must the German be the third? He hath pushed hard for it now of late.

This again some interpret of Antiochus, some of Mahomet, some of the Caesars, others of Antichrist, all concerning their craft, and blasphemies, which properly can be meant but of one.

Marginal references: Ver. 21, 24. chap. 8.9.