another like a leopard] The Empire of Alexander the Great, and Greece for the first partition. Alexander was very speedy in all his conquests, which is figured by the leopard a very active beast, Hab. 1. 8. and by his wings. A third kingdome, Daniel 2:39. The goat back, Daniel 8:5. A mightie king, Daniel 11:3. foure wings of a fowl] These were the foure kingdomes, into which the Empire of Alexander was divided after his death, which his foure chief Captains had, Daniel 8:8. &Daniel 11:4. 1Ma 1:9-10. Seleucus had Asia the great, Antigonus the lesse, Cassander, and after him Antipater, was king of Macedonie, and Ptolemus had Egypt. and dominion was given to it] It was not of himself, nor of his own power, that he gat all these countreys: for his army contained but thirtie thousand men, and he overcame in one battell Darius, which had ten hundred thousand; when he was so heavy with sleep that his eyes could scarce open, as the stories report: therefore this power was given him of God.