Sect. VI. | 1 |[|Chap. 11–12|
Of the Prophesy of the
Scripture of truth.

The kingdoms represented by the second & third Beasts,
or the Bear & Leopard, are again described by Daniel in
|his| last Prophesy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon,
the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophesy is
a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram & He-goat.

Behold, saith he,2 there shall stand up yet three kings in
Persia, & [Cyrus Cambyses, & Darius Hystaspes] & the fourth
[Xerxes] shall be far richer then they all: & by his strength
& through \'/ his riches he shall stir up all against the realm
of Greece. And a mighty king [Alexander the great] shall
stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, & do according
to his will. And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be bro-
ken, & shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; & not
to his posterity [but after their death,] nor according to the
dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be pluckt up,
even for others besides those. Alexander the great having con-
quered all | y^e | Persian Empire & some part of India, died at Baby-
lon a month before the summer solstice in the year of Nabo-
nassar 425, \:/ & his captains gave the monarchy to his
bastard brother Philip Aridæus, a man disturbed in his under-
standing; & made Perdiccas Administrator of the kingdom.
And Perdiccas with their consent made Meleager com-
mander of the army, Seleucus master of the horse, Craterus
treasurer of the kingdom, Antipater governour of Macedon [,]
& Greece, Ptolo |e|my governour of Egypt; Antigonus governour
of Pamphi |y|lia, Lycia/,\ Lycaonia, & Phrygia major; Lysimachus
Then [illeg] governour of Thrace, & other captains governours
of other Provinces, as many as had been so before in the
days of Alexander the great. And t |T|he Babylonians began
now to count by a new Æra, w^ch they called the Æra of
Philip, using the years of Nabonassar, & recconing the 425^th
year of Nabonassar to be the first year of Philip. And Rhox-
ane |a| the wife of Alexander being left big with child, &
about three or four years \months/ after brought to bed of a son,
they called him Alexander, & saluted him king, joy \i/ning
him with Philip in the throne of the kingdom. Philip
reigned three years under the administratorship of Antipater
& above a year more under the administratorship of Poly
Perdiccas, two years more under the administratorship of
Antipater, & above a year more under the administra-
torship of Polysperchon;3 in all six years & four months;
& then was slain with his Queen Eurydice in September
by the command of the Olympias the mother of Alexander
the great. And t |T|he Greeks being disgusted at the cruelties
of Olympias, revolted to Cassander the son & successor of
Antipater. Cassander affecting the dominion of Greece,
slew Olympias; & soon after shut up the young king
Alexander with his mother Roxane \a/, in the castel |of| Am-
phipolis, under the charge of Glaucias, An. Nabonass. 432.