Now every classic reader knows that Alexander conquered Darius, monarch of the Medes and Persians, and that upon the death of the Macedonian, that his kingdom was "_divided_" and that it did not descend "_to his posterity_," that "_four kingdoms_ did _stand up out of the nation_"--[_i. e._ of Macedonia]--viz., Asia was taken by Antigonus as his share;--Seleucus had Babylon and the surrounding provinces, Lysimachus the cities of the Hellespont, and Ptolemeus possessed Egypt--thus were the four new kings created,--Macedonia the original "nation," was given to Cassander. Here then is the direct fulfilment of Prophecy, and upon the authority of acknowledged History, which is the authority desired by sceptics. Now for the data.--DANIEL prophesied 553 years B. C., Ezra translated the Bible from the original tongue [536 B. C.], therefore ninety-seven years after DANIEL; but, following out the atheistical assertion,--viz.,--no fulfilment is proved from History (not Scriptural) after Ezra,--here then is a conclusive refutation, for Alexander died, and his kingdom was divided in 323 B. C., _consequently 213 years_ AFTER _the translation of the Bible by Ezra_; and the historic facts are firmly established upon the time-honoured authority of Arrian, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and Josephus. EZEKIEL'S Prophecy of the first fall, and of the general fate of Tyrus, was in the year 588 B. C., three years before the commencement of the Babylonian siege. In that Prophecy he says, "Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD: Behold I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and I will make her like the top of a rock. _It shall be a place for the spreading of Nets in the midst of the sea._" * * * * * "I will make thee _like the top of a rock,--thou shalt be a place to spread Nets upon_, for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the LORD GOD." What Tyrus was finally to become is twice uttered by EZEKIEL, as shewn by the above italicised quotations. Ezra's latest date is 456 B. C., but what is Tyrus at the present day--_twenty-three Centuries after_ Ezra? Why it is the living witness of the actual and identical fulfilment of the Prophecy!--for every Traveller from the Mediterranean testifies to the fact, that upon the _top of the rocks_ of the site of ancient Tyrus, are daily seen, spread out and drying in the sunlight, _some fifty or sixty Nets_, belonging to about the same number of fishermen, who reside in the vicinity! It is scarcely necessary to add, that those poor fishers of the sea have not in any manner been in collusion to establish the Sacred writings; but in all probability from their being uneducated Mahomedans, (yet believers in the Koran) are in total ignorance of the Bible, or the principles of Prophecy.