John Trapp on Daniel 7:5

Ver. 5. And behold another beaſt, a ſecond like to a Bear] Which is nothing ſo generous and ingenuous as a Lion: but ſlow, dull, cruel, ravenous: Such were the Perſians: a mountainous, tough, uncivil people, of barbarous and beaſtly cruelty.

And it raiſed up it ſelf on one ſide] ſc. By joyning with the Medes, by whoſe help Cyrus ſubdued the Syrians, Xenoph. Aſſyrians, Arabians, Cappadocians, and many more nations not eaſily reckoned: who, to gratify him, deſired to be ruled according to his pleaſure.

And it had three ribs in the mouth of it] Whilſt they conquered three parts of the known World, puſhing Weſtward, Northward and Southward, chap. 8.4. Weſtward by Cyrus, Southward by Cambyſes, and Northward by Darius Hyſtaſ[illegible: 1 letter]i[illegible: 1 letter].

And they ſaid (or, it was ſaid) thus unto it, Ariſe, devour] Intimating, that it was God who turned this Bear looſe upon the nations, and gave them to him for a prey. Tyrants proſper by Gods permiſſion, Joh. 19.11.