Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 8:23

23 And in the latter time of their kingdom , when the transgressors are come to the full , a king of fierce countenance , and understanding dark sentences , shall stand up.

i. e. When they were come to the height, and beginning to decline; It notes that time when the Romans began to sieze part of the Grecian Kingdom, by Emilius Probus who subdued Perseus King of Macedonia, and thereby brought all Greece under the Roman Jurisdiction, which was 166 years before Christ was born, that very year Antiochus set up the abomination of desolation.

When the Iewes were grown to an exces[illegible: 1 letter] of wickedness, and called for punishment, then God suffered Antiochus to persecute them.

Such was he; the word is translated, impudent, inhumane, for the countenance is the discoverer of the mind and manners oftentimes.

Full of all subtilty, another I[illegible: 1 letter]lian, to lay snares, and fetch over the inconstant and backsliding Iews: such a one all Histories declare this Antiochus to be.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 span]