NOTE.—“This was the _Medo-Persian_ Empire, represented here under the symbol of a _bear_.... The Medes and Persians are compared to a bear on account of their _cruelty and thirst after blood_, a bear being a most voracious and cruel animal.”—_Adam Clarke, on Dan. 7:5._ 11. By what was the third universal empire symbolized? “After this I beheld, and lo another, _like a leopard_, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.” Verse 6. NOTES.—If the wings of an eagle on the back of a lion denoted rapidity of movement in the Babylonian, or Assyrian, Empire (see Hab. 1:6-8), four wings on the leopard must denote unparalleled celerity of movement in the Grecian Empire. This we find to be historically true. “The rapidity of Alexander’s conquests in Asia was marvelous: he burst like a torrent on the expiring Persian Empire, and all opposition was useless. The gigantic armies collected to oppose him melted like snow in the sunshine. The battles of Granicus, B.C. 334, Issus in the following year, and Arbela in B.C. 331, settled the fate of the Persian Empire, and established the wide dominion of the Greeks.”—_“__The Divine Program of the World’s History,__”__ by H. Grattan Guinness, page 308._ “The beast had also four heads.” The Grecian Empire maintained its unity but a short time after the death of Alexander, which occurred in B.C. 323. Within twenty-two years after the close of his brilliant career, or by B.C. 301, the empire was divided among his four leading generals. Cassander took Macedonia and Greece in the west; Lysimachus had Thrace and the parts of Asia on the Hellespont and Bosporus in the north; Ptolemy received Egypt, Lydia, Arabia, Palestine, and Cœle-Syria in the south; and Seleucus had all the rest of Alexander’s dominions in the east. 12. How was the fourth kingdom represented? “After, this I saw in the night-visions, and behold _a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth_: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; _and it had ten horns_.” Verse 7. 13. What was the fourth beast declared to be? “Thus he said, _The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth_, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.” Verse 23. NOTES.—“This is allowed on all hands to be the Roman Empire. It was _dreadful_, _terrible_, and _exceeding strong_; ... and became, in effect, what the Roman writers delight to call it, the _empire of the whole world_.”—_Adam Clarke, on Dan. 7:7._ The final overthrow of the Greeks, by the Romans, was at the battle of Pydna, in 168 B.C. 14. What was denoted by the ten horns?