_I beheld,_ saith [4] _Daniel_, _till the Beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flames. As concerning the rest of the Beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time_. And therefore all the four Beasts are still alive, tho the dominion of the three first be taken away. The nations of _Chaldea_ and _Assyria_ are still the first Beast. Those of _Media_ and _Persia_ are still the second Beast. Those of _Macedon_, _Greece_ and _Thrace_, _Asia_ minor, _Syria_ and _Egypt_, are still the third. And those of _Europe_, on this side _Greece_, are still the fourth. Seeing therefore the body of the third Beast is confined to the nations on this side the river _Euphrates_, and the body of the fourth Beast is confined to the nations on this side _Greece_; we are to look for all the four heads of the third Beast, among the nations on this side of the river _Euphrates_; and for all the eleven horns of the fourth Beast, among the nations on this side of _Greece_. And therefore, at the breaking of the _Greek_ empire into four kingdoms of the _Greeks_, we include no part of the _Chaldeans_, _Medes_ and _Persians_ in those kingdoms, because they belonged to the bodies of the two first Beasts. Nor do we reckon the _Greek_ empire seated at _Constantinople_, among the horns of the fourth Beast, because it belonged to the body of the third. Notes to Chap. IV. [1] Chap. vii. 4. [2] Chap. vii. 5. [3] Chap. vii. 13. [4] Chap. vii. 11, 12. * * * * * CHAP. V. _Of the Kingdoms represented by the feet of the Image composed of iron and clay._