After many dayes] To wit, in the times of the Maccabees, above two hundred yeares after this prophecie: In the parted kingdome of the Greeks, under the Seleucidae and Lagidae, the kings of the North and South, Dan. 11. this fell out. visited] That is, in anger: Or God will punish thee ô Gog: and from the times of Seleucus Nicanor, the wonderfull judgements of God began to be executed for the defence of his people against the Grecian kings. in the latter yeares] A little before the coming of Christ in the flesh: whence there should begin a new world. brought back from the sword] Saved from the precedent ruines of warre: a description of the land of Israel, but by the land, is to be understood the inhabitants, because it is said to be brought back, as it was promised, Chap. 37. against] Or, upon. alwayes waste] That is, a long time, and which seemed never to have been restored to it former state.