Daniele 11:3

3 Poi sorgerà un re possente, e valoroso; il quale possederà un grande imperio, e farà ciò ch’egli vorrà.

Daniele 11:3 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 11:3

And a mighty king shall stand up
Not in Persia, but in Greece; Alexander the great, who rose up a hundred years after the above expedition of Xerxes, and "stood" and flourished, and conquered all he attacked, none being able to resist him; and is rightly called a "mighty king", a very powerful one: this is the notable horn in the he goat, which being exasperated by the ram, the Persians, and their invasion of Greece, pushed at them, and destroyed them, ( Daniel 8:5-7 ) : that shall rule with great dominion; not in Greece only but in the whole world, at least as he thought, and really did over a very great part of it; for, as Jerome says, having conquered the Illyrians, Thracians, Greece, and Thebes, he passed into Asia; and, having put to flight the generals of Darius, he took the city of Sardis, and afterwards India. And do according to his will;
not only in his own army, sacrificing his best friends at his pleasure; but with his enemies, conquering whom he would, none being able to withstand him; all things succeeded to his wish; whatever he attempted he performed. His historian ^F15 says of him,

``that it must be owned he owed much to virtue, but more to fortune, which alone of all mortals he had in his power;''

since, by the benefit of it, he seemed to do with nations whatever he pleased; he was sovereign in all things, and set himself to be worshipped as a deity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Curtius, l. 10. c. 5.

Daniele 11:3 In-Context

1 Or io, nell’anno primo di Dario Medo, sono stato presente per confortarlo, e per fortificarlo.

2 Ed ora, io ti dichiarerò cose vere. Ecco, vi saranno ancora tre re in Persia; poi il quarto acquisterà di gran ricchezze sopra tutti gli altri; e come egli si sarà fortificato nelle sue ricchezze, egli farà muover tutti contro al regno di Iavan.

3 Poi sorgerà un re possente, e valoroso; il quale possederà un grande imperio, e farà ciò ch’egli vorrà.

4 Ma tosto ch’egli sarà sorto, il suo regno sarà rotto, e sarà diviso per li quattro venti del cielo, e non alla sua progenie; e quello non sarà pari all’imperio che esso avrà posseduto; perciocchè il suo regno sarà stirpato, e sarà di altri, oltre a coloro.

5 E il re del Mezzodì si fortificherà, ed un altro de’ capitani d’esso; costui si fortificherà sopra quell’altro, e regnerà, e il suo imperio sarà grande.