John Trapp on Daniel 7:12

Ver. 12. As concerning the reſt of the beaſts] The four great Monarchies (as was before noted) had their times and their turns; their riſe, and their ruine.

Yet their lives were prolonged for a ſeaſon] Such is the Lords lenity, reſpiting his enemies for a time, 1 Kings 21.29. The Perſian and Turk, are yet puiſſant Princes. The ſucceſſe that the Antichriſtian rout yet hath in ſome places, maketh good that which was ſometime ſaid of dying Carthage, Morientium nempe beſtiarum violentiores eſſe morſus, i. e. The bites of dying beaſts are more violent then ordinary.