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comfort me then and show me, Thy servant, the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that Thou mayest perfectly comfort my soul.
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For Thou hast judged me worthy to show me the last times."
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And He said unto me, "This is the interpretation of the vision:
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the eagle whom thou sawest come up from the sea is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.
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But it was not expounded unto him; therefore now I declare it unto thee.
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Behold, the days will come that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
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In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another,
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whereof the second shall begin to reign and shall have more time than any of the twelve.
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And this do the twelve wings signify which thou sawest.
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As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
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that after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of falling. Nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.