Now because this horn was a horn of the Goat, we are to look for it among the nations which composed the body of the Goat.  Among those nations he was to rise up and grow mighty:  he grew mighty [4] towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the pleasant land; and therefore he was to rise up in the north-west parts of those nations, and extend his dominion towards Egypt, Syria and Judea.  In the latter time of the kingdom of the four horns, it was to rise up out of one of them and subdue the rest, but not by its own power.  It was to be assisted by a foreign power, a power superior to itself, the power which took away the dominion of the third Beast, the power of the fourth Beast.  And such a little horn was the kingdom of Macedonia, from the time that it became subject to the Romans.  This kingdom, by the victory of the Romans over Persius King of Macedonia, Anno Nabonass. 580, ceased to be one of the four horns of the Goat, and became a dominion of a new sort:  not a horn of the fourth Beast, for Macedonia belonged to the body of the third; but a horn of the third Beast of a new sort, a horn of the Goat which grew mighty but not by his own power, a horn which rose up and grew potent under a foreign power, the power of the Romans.

The Romans, by the legacy of Attalus the last King of Pergamus, An.  Nabonass. 615, inherited that kingdom, including all Asia Minor on this side mount Taurus. An.  Nabonass. 684 and 685 they conquered Armenia, Syria and Judea; An.  Nabonass. 718, they subdued Egypt.  And by these conquests the little horn [5] waxed exceeding great towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the pleasant land.  And it waxed great even to the host of heaven; and cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them, that is, upon the people and great men of the Jews. [6] Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the Host, the Messiah, the Prince of the Jews, whom he put to death, An.  Nabonass. 780. And by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down, viz. in the wars which the armies of the Eastern nations under the conduct of the Romans made against Judea, when Nero and Vespasian were Emperors, An.  Nabonass. 816, 817, 818. [7] And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it practised and prospered.  This transgression is in the next words called the transgression of desolation; and in Dan. xi. 31. the abomination which maketh desolate; and in Matth. xxiv. 15. the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel_ the prophet, standing in the holy place_.