I behld then] To wit, God sitting in judgement to give all kingdoms to his Sonne, as vers. 13. 14. because of the voice of the great words] For from the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, God began to shake and destroy the kingdome of the Seleucidae with inward and outward stirs. even till the beast was slain] As in the images ruine he began with the legs first, and not with the head that first perished: so here first he speaketh of the last, for the safetie of his own nation, that the Chaldeans should pick no quarrell for this vision. and given to the burning flame] A description of the death and everlasting damnation of Antiochus. 1 Mac. 6. 8. 13.