the truth] That is, proprietie of the visions of the Image and Beasts: which we may not expound, but according to the Angels Commentary: which standeth in matters so famous, that men out of the Church, will bring us stories most exactly agreeing with the Angels words: that our enemies may be good Judges. three kings in Persia] After Darius named afore, Cyrus: Artaxocsta or Artaxerxes, called of the Greeks Cambyses: and Achashuerosh, that married Esther, called Darius, sonne of Hystaspis. To these three, the Persians gave these attributes: Cyrus was a father, Cambyses a master, and Darius a horder up. Herodot. in Thalia. fourth shall be farre richer] Xerxes surnamed the terrour of Greece: not that he was the last King of Persia, but because through his so famous enterprise against Greece, he gave the first occasion of warre between the Persians and the Grecians, which at last caused the totall ruine of the Persians by Alexander the Great. stirre up all] A hyperbolicall terme: that is to say, an innumerable company of all sorts of people. Daniel knew without any further telling, what would be the successe, for hindering the Temples building, from the fierie throne, Chap. 7. 9. and from the flaming eyes, Chap. 10. 6. even that they should feele the discomfiture of all their strength for so doing: and have their former Kings soone cut off. Soone after Xerxes voyage; Darius a young King at home, furthereth the Temples worke, and acknowledgeth the hand of God to have paid Kings and people for their hinderance, Ezr. 6. 10. 12. The Temple and Religion had no further hinderance by the Persians: wherefore the Angel passeth over all other times unto Alexander, years neare an hundred: Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and Zacharie, shew the further dealings of those years.