Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 8:1

1 IN the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first .

This follows then in time after the former: Those things that were meet for the Chaldees to know, are recorded by Daniel in that Tongue, but now he writes in Hebrew which lasts to the end of the Book, because these things relate to the Church of Christ, Iew and Gentile to the end of the World.

In the other Vision he speaks of all the four Monarchies; here only of the three first: this vision being both as a part, and a Comment upon the first.