human
(v. 23). The expressions in this chapter,
gpt
(v. 17),
human
gpt
(v. 19), and
human
(v. 23), all point to a period still future, namely, to the close of the present age. Again, in reference to the
gpt
while much of the prophecy can be applied to Antiochus Epiphanes in the second century B.C., yet no man has hitherto arisen whose character and acts have been precisely those related in verses 9-12 and 23-25. We may also compare what is said of