Popillius drawing a circle about the king, bad him answer
before he went out of the circle. At which blunt & unusual
imperiousness the king being astonished, made answer that he
would do what the Romans demanded. And t |T|hen Popillius gave
the king his hand to kiss, & the king returned out of Egypt; & the same year ( An Nabonass. 580) his captains by his order
spoiled & slaughtered the Iews, proph \f/aned the Temple, set up
the worship of all the heathen Gods in Iude all Iudea, &
began to persecute & make war upon those who would not
worship them. Which actions are thus described by Daniel.1
At the time appointed he shall come [again] towards the south,
but the latter shall not be as the former. For the ships of
Chittim shall come [with an Embassy from Rome] against him.
Therefore he shall be grieved, & return, & have indignation against
the holy covenant. So shall he do; he shall even return, & have
intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

In the same year that Antiochus by the command of the
Romans retired of Egypt, & set up the worship of the Greeks
in Iudæa, the Romans conquered the kingdom of Macedon, the funda
mental kingdom of the empire of the Greeks, & reduced it into a
Roman Province, & thereby began to put an end to the reign of Da-
niel's third Beast. And t |T|his is thus exprest by Daniel. And after
him Arms [the Romans] shall stand up. As ממלך signifies after
the king, Dan xi.8; so ממנו may signify after him. Arms are
every where in this prophesy put for of Daniel put for the military
power of a kingdom: and they stand up when they conquer &
grow powerfull. Hitherto Daniel described the actions of the
kings of the north & south; but upon the conquest of Macedon
by the Romans, left off describing the actions of the Greeks, &
began to describe those of the Romans in Greece. They conquered
Macedon|,| \Illyricum & Epire,/ in the year of Nabonassar 580. And 35 years after,
by the last will & testament of Attalus the last king of Per-
gamus, they inherited that rich & flourishing kingdom, that is,
all Asia on this side the mountain Taurus; & 69 years after
they conquered the kingdom of Syria, & reduced it into a pro-
vince, & 34 years after they did the like to Egypt. And
b |B|y all these steps the Roman Arms stood up over the Greeks:
And after 95 years more, by making war upon the Iews,
they polluted the sanctuary of strength, & took away the
daily sacrifice, & began to \then/ placed the abomination of desolation.
For this abomination was placed after the days of Christ, Matth.
XXIV.15. In the 16^th year of the Emperor Adrian, A.C. 132, they ✝ < insertion from f 74v > ✝ placed this abomination by building a temple to Iupiter \Capitolinus/ where
the Temple of \God in/ Ierusalem had stood. For thereupon the Iews
under the conduct of Barchochab rose up in arms against
the Romans, & in the war lost \had 50 cities demolished [illeg] and 985 of their best towns destroyed &/ lost 580000 men \slain by the sword/; & in the
end of the war, A.C. 136, were banished Iudea upon pain
of death, & thenceforward the land remained desolate
of inhabitants its old inhabitants. < text from f 75r resumes >

In the beginning of the Iewish war \in Nero's reign/ the Apostles fled out of
Iudea with their flocks; some beyond Iordan to Pella & other
places, some into Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia ma |i|nor, & other
places. Peter & Iohn came into Asia, & Peter went thence by
Corinth to Rome; but Iohn staying in Asia, was banished by the
Romans into Patmos, as the head of a party of Iews whose nation
was in war with the Romans. By this dispersion of the Christian
Iews, the Christian religion, w^ch was already propagated westward
as far as Rome, spread fast into all the Roman Empire, & under
it suffered many persecutions \under it/ till the days of Constantine y^e great
& his sons. And this is thus described by Daniel.2 And such as do
wickedly against the covenant, shall he [who places the abomina-
tion] cause to dissemble [& worship the heathen Gods;] but the people
among them who do know their God, shall be strong & act. And they
that understand among the people, shall instruct many: yet they
shall fall by the sword, & by flame, & by captivity, & by spoil
many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with
a little help [viz^t in the reign of Constantine the great,] & [at
that time by reason of their prosperity] many shall [come over to