arise another kingdome] That of the Persians and the Medes, figured by the breast and armes of silver, in regard of the conjunction of both these nations in one Empire, though rich and splendid, yet not like that of the Babylonians, Daniel 7:5. &Daniel 8:3. &Daniel 11:2. and they were worse touching ambition, crueltie, and all kind of vice: shewing that the world should grow worse and worse, till it was restored by Christ. third kingdome of brasse] That which Alexander got by overcoming Darius, represented by the belly and thighes of brasse, vers. 32. because that whole Empire did nothing else but devour by force of armes, which were anciently made of brasse tempered, alluding to the vilnesse of brasse to silver, worse then the former, Daniel 7:6. &Daniel 8:5. &Daniel 11:3. rule over all the earth] Over a great part thereof, so that he shall obtain one of the greatest Empires of the world, called universall by popular speech, Ezra 1:2. Daniel 8:5. Luke 2:1.