{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3841","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: \"As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, this is the king of the Medes and the Persians.\" [Gabriel] alludes to Darius. \"The two horns\" signify the two kingdoms, the Persian and the Mede. \"The male goat is the king of Greece\": Alexander. \"And the great horn between his eyes\" signifies his highest power and his exceedingly extended empire all over the world. \"After the horn was broken, four kingdoms arose from it\": the monarchy of Alexander, after his death, will be diminished and divided into parts assigned to his friends Seleucus, Philip, Demetrius and Ptolemy.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:20</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f52f1467210dbe59844a122629fe71eefd872c2a1fc2e8e3b56dce1d03826c3b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3841,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"da2027296fd6c7ea1bdf7b45d17ee90db50bfd9b59a96d6ff856b656cb109d05","translator":null,"work":null}