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SL245, described in the Sotheby catalogue as c. 300,000 words on 975 pp., was bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £48 and sold to Yahuda on 1 Aug. 1936 for the sale price plus 15%. On 24 May 1949, Yahuda wrote to the London dealer Heinrich Eisemann, 'As to lot 245 the new arrangement and replacement of the pages resulted in 1,530 pages instead of 975 pages as many pages had to be taken out from other lots. But for this manuscript I have a customer who wants to pay a much higher price than $3,800 suggested by you.' If this was true, the prospective buyer's desire to part with his or her cash presumably waned. There must subsequently have been further reordering of the manuscript as the present Yahuda Ms. 7 amounts to nowhere near 1,530 pp.
In the language of Prophesy Beasts are put for
& their several parts for e
as their sever heads for the governing parts their horns for
their military powers, chthe number of
heads horns or wings for the number of Governments Kingdoms or dominions in any Beast
their flesh for the riches their bones &
teeth, nails & hoofs for bands of soldiers such as are Legions
Squadrons, Regiments & Companies, & the number of heads
horns or wings
lar Kingdoms in any-lived Beasts
are put for long-lived Kingdoms the days of eb
put for the years of e
granted having explained them in another place & upon this
foundation I proceed to explain the Prophesies of Daniel
Daniel tells us that the Golden head the silver breast
the brazen belly & ee
nezzars vision signify four successive kingdoms & that
first is that of the Babylonians or Assyrians at Babylon. Thou o King, saith he to Nebuchadnezzar,
Daniel tells us also that the four Beasts in his own vision
the Ly
exceedingly strong ten horned Beast ch
of the great sea, are four kingdoms which shall arise out of the earth. And all Interpreters agree that these kingdoms are the
So then the Lion che
signifies the Kingdom of Babylon. This Lion had eagles wings
to signify the double nation & dominion of Assyria & Babylonia Chaldea. With these wings it was lifted up from
the earth & made to stand upon the feet as a man, that
is
was given to it to signify its humanity towards other
kingdoms. For the Kings of Nineveh & Babylon upon
conquering any new kingdom did not presently destroy
the government thereof as the following Monarchies
did but only made it tributary till it rebelled. Ieru
salem rebelled twice before the king of Babylon
would destroy it. Daniel beheld till the Lyons wings
were pluckt wherewith he raised himself up from
the earth, that is till his power & dominion was taken
away wherewith he had exalted himself. The Lyon
was not slain but continues still alive with his wings
pluckt. For the three first Beasts had their lives
prolongued for a season & time after their dominions
were taken away Dan. 7.12
of the statue continue in being together till the stone
cut out of the mountain falls upon e
statue & breaks them all to pieces, the iron the brass
the silver & the gold & the wind carries them away toge
ther. So then the four parts of the Image & all Da
niels Beasts are in being to this day, the bodies of e
Beasts signifying not the persons of Kings but the
& dominions of those nations. The Ram had two horns
when the Medes & Persians signified thereby had but
one king & the Lyon has two wings when there was but
one king of the Chaldeans & Assyrians.
We are therefore to apply the Beasts & parts
of the Statue to four sorts of Nations ch
successively & are all of them still in being & perfect
ly distinct from one another. And the first of them
are the nations of Assyria or Babylonia ch
dissolution of their Empire composed the Province of Ba
bylonia & was the third part of the Persian Empire as
to Susiana Elymais & Paretica inclusively, northward to
Media & Armenia exclusively & westward to Mesopotamia
& the Arabes Scenitæ inclusively. For Cicilia, Syria,
Phœnicia, Moab, Ammon & Egypt were the auxiliary
nations, as Herodotus calls them, ch
Medes revolted from e
& therefore are not recconed by Strabo among the Nations
of Babylonia. The Lion therefore & the Golden head of
the statue signify to this day the Province of Assyria or
Babylonia bounded as above.
And so the Bear che
breast of e
Medes & Persians who reigned in the second place. The
Bear raised it self or stood up on one side to signify that
one of those two nations rose above the other. He held three
ribbs in his mouth to signify his conquests. The ribs are
Sardes Babylon & Memphys the three strong imperial cities
of the Kingdoms of the Lydians Babylonians Assyrians &
Egyptians, together thdominion strength & &
power & dominion of those cities. He holds them between in his mouth between his teeth as if he were
his teeth
eating them to signify that they are three conquered
nations distinct from his own original body. And he is
bid to arise & eat much flesh to signify that he should
draw great riches from his conquests.
Daniel signifies this kingdom also by a Ram with
two horns one of ch
Persian then e
this Ram with two horns are the Kings (that is kingdoms)
of Media & Persia & that the Ram pusht westward &
northward & southward so that no b
dom) could stand before him. For the Medes & Persians
carried on their wars & conquests into those quarters
by invading Assyria, Asia minor, Egypt & Greece. The Goat
brake his two horns but slew him not & therefore he
still continues alive th
nations of the Medes & Persians to this day.
In like manner the Leopard ch
& the brazen belly & thighs of the statue signify to this
day the nations of the Greeks who reigned in the third
place. This Leopard had four wings of a Fowl & four
heads to signify four capital dominions into ch
Egypt: all which nations together compose the Leopard
& are still signified by it.
The same nations & dominions are also signified
by the He-Goat & his four horns ch
the four winds of heaven. The rough Goat, saith Daniel, is the king of Grecia & the great horn between his eyes is the first king [that is the first kingdom.]
These four regions belonged not to ey
first Beasts, they were under
the battel at Arbela whereby the Persian Empire fell: they
continued in their dominion till the Empire of the Romans
arose, they spake e
of e
all belonged to the
Syria & Egypt: and therefore they may justly be recconed
the four heads & wings of that Empire & to compose that
body of people chsented by the four
headed & four winged Leopard & by the Goat with four horns che
Alexander the great died at Babylon an. I. P. 4390 & was
succeeded in Greece & Macedon (the western wing of the Leopard)
by Antipater & others down to Perseus whom e
quered an P. I. 4546. & in Egypt
In Egypt & e
southern wing) he was succeeded by Ptolomeus Lagi & other Greeks
down to Cleopatra in e
Egypt into a Province Roman Province an P. I. 4684.
Seleucus, saith Iustinafter y
Asia minor (the northern wing) fell to the share of Anti
gonus & his son Demetrius who reigned there till Demetrius
was conquered by Seleucus king of Syria an. P. I. 4426. From
which time the kingdoms of Asia & Syria remained united under
one king. But yet they are still represented by two horns, much
after the manner that ee
but one king & yet are represented by the two horns of the
Ram till the very fall of the Persian Empire, when e
the Ram & breaks his two horns.
Out of one of the four horns of the Goat in the latter time
of their kingdome came forth a little horn when the transgressors
were come to the full came forth a little horn chwaxe grew
mighty but not by his own power & waxed exceedingly great &
toward the south & toward the east & toward the pleasant land
& it waxed great to e
stars to the ground & stamped upon them & magnified himself
against the Prince of the host & by him e
away & the place of his sanctuary cast down & it cast down the
truth to the grownd & destroyed the mighty & the holy people & prac
tised & prospered; & by all these circumstances this horn is the
kingdome of Pergamus. That kingom was at first a little came
one,Asia minor the northern horn,
little one, contracted strict friendship the
Asia minor from Antiochus magnus king of Syria, afterwards
assisted the Romans in conquering Perseus, & being now a
flourishing kingdom e
ment of Attalus its king, grew mighty
grew mighty & extended it self into southward into Egypt
into e&
kingdom of Iudea, slew the Messiah, in the reign of Tiberius slew the
sanctuary, persecuted the Christians & at length separating from e
Romans became the Greek Empire seated at Constantinople,
in the Churches of Christians set up the worship of Idols dead men & Images.
This Empire being monarchical & of long continuance
& conteining precisely the whole body of the Goat, deserved
as much to be represented by the last horn of the Goat
as the kingdom of Alexander did to be represented by the
first great horn between the Goats eyes. The prophesy was
for many days at least 2300 that is for so many years:
it reaches to the time of the end & the Goat is still in being
as are all Daniel's beasts & to this day it signifies the
nations of the Greek Empire. And therefore that Empire
while in a monarchical form
& the most considerable of all the horns. It answers ex
actly to the Goats last horn &
representation & there is nothing but that horn to represent
it.
If you think it improper that e
Empire in the time of their subjection to e
be represented by a distinct horn, you are to consider that
horns signify kingdoms as well united under one common
monarch as separate under several monarchs. So the two
horns of e
under one common king & the eastern & northern horn
of the Goat signify the kingdoms of Syria & Asia some
times under one king sometimes under several. The Goat
signifies the four horned e
united to eo
its not improper to represent it also by a horn of e
The Romans when they inherited the kingdom of Pergamus
did not break e
By the last will & testament of Attalus, they succeeded
him in the throne of his kingdom & reigned in his stead. By
that Will they became king of Pergamus, & reigned till they
lost that kingdom by the separation of e
the Latin. So far was the succession of the Latines in
the kingdom of Pergamus, or their reign over the Greeks,
from being an objection, that it was requisite to make good
the prophesy concerning this horn. For Daniel saith that it should be mighty but not by its own power. Which is as
Now whilst the three first Beasts signify to this day
all the nations of e
remains for the body of the fourth Beast, all the nations
of the Roman Empire chch
Latines, made up the Latin or Western Empire. And there
fore thine
look for the ten horns of the fourth Beast. These Beasts
or Kingdoms are distinguished also by their language not
only by their successive rise or reign but also by their lan
guage. The first spake the Assyrian & Chaldean, the second
the Persian, the third the Greek, & the fourth the Latin. For
the Greek was spoken in all the Greek Empire & not in the
Latin, & e
in e
Beasts are distinguisht even when they are united in dominion.
For Daniel
& 6.25. & 7.14
on
Now the fourth Beast, saith Daniel, was dreadfull & terrible & strong exceedingly & had great iron teeth & nails of brass & devoured & brake in pieces & stamped the residue , & such was
Now the Roman Empire continued in its full strength
till the death of Theodosius the great ch
years after the conquest of Greece by the Romans, and
if at any time it was shaken as at in the time of e
30 Tyrants or divided as at ee
great it soon recovered & reunited. Theosodius left it
divided into the Greek & Latin Empires seated at Rome
& Constantinople. The eastern
about 240 years & then lost Syria & Egypt to e
Saracens but yet stood above 800 years longer before e
Turks overthrew it. The Latin empire stood entire about
12 or 13 years & then at once A.C. 408 & 409 brake into
ten kingdoms, the rise of ch
The Visigoths in the reign of Theodosus the great
vaded the eastern part of the empire, were beaten by the Empe
rorhad upon submission had seats granted them in that part as ab
made Alaric their captain & troubled that part of the
for about five years together, & then advancing towards the
western empire they were so beaten by Stilico the commander
of the forces of that empire that Claudian calls the remainder
of their forces tanta ex gente reliquias breves & Prudentius