beasts came up] Empires deciphered in this manner, because the acquiring of them is not gotten, nor the possession maintained, nor the government of them exercised but by violence and tyranny, Psalms 76:5. Cant. 4. 8. diverse one from another] For Babel destroyed Judahs Kingdome; Paras meant to have destroyed the whole nation in one day; Alexander required Judah to take his date from his conquests, and to name th Priests sonnes Alexanders, all borne in one year; and meant to have been a god: the Seleucidae meant to have altered all Judahs religion, and to devour the whole wealth of the nation.