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XIV. The next particular that I shall mention under this period, is the destruction of the Persian empire, and sitting up of the Grecian empire by Alexander. This came to pass about sixty or seventy years after the times wherein the prophet Malachi is supposed to have prophesied, and about three hundred and thirty years before Christ. This was the third overturning of the world that came to pass in this period, and was greater and more remarkable than either of the foregoing. It was very remarkable on account of the suddenness of that conquest of the world which Alexander made, and the greatness •f the empire which he set up, which much exceeded all the foregoing in its extent.

XIV. The next particular that I shall mention under this period, is the destruction of the Pers•an empire, and sitting up of the Grecian empire by Alexander. This came to pass about sixty or seventy years after the times wherein the prophet Malachi is supposed to have prophesied, and about three hundred and thirty years before Christ. This was the third overturning of the world that came to pass in this period, and was greater and more remarkable than either of the foregoing. It was very remarkable on account of the suddenness of that conquest of the world which Alexander made, and the greatness •f the empire which he set up, which much exceeded all the fo•egoing in its extent.

This event is •uch spoken of in the prophecies of Daniel. This empire is represented by the third kingdom of brass in Daniel's interpretation •f Nebuchadnezzar's dream, as in Dan. ii.; and in Daniel's vision of the four beasts, is represented by the third beast that was like […] leopard, that had on his back four wings of a fowl, to represent the swiftness of its conquest, chap. vii. and is more