Daniel 8:9

little horn

The "little horn" here is a prophecy fulfilled in Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 175, who profaned the temple and terribly persecuted the Jews. He is not to be confounded with the "little horn" of Daniel 7, who is yet to come, and who will dominate the earth during the great tribulation.

( See Scofield) - (Daniel 7:8)

concerning "The Beast".

( See Scofield) - (Revelation 19:20)

and "The great tribulation," (Psalms 2:5).

( See Scofield) - (Revelation 7:14).

But Antiochus is a remarkable type of the Beast, the terrible "little horn" of the last days. Verses 24-25 (Daniel 8:24) go beyond Antiochus and evidently refer to the "little horn" of Daniel 7. Both Antiochus and the Beast, but the Beast pre-eminently, are in view in verses 24-25 (Daniel 8:24). That the "little horn" of Daniel 7 cannot be the little horn of (Daniel 8:9); (Daniel 8:23) is evident. The former comes up among the ten horns into which the fourth empire (Roman) is to be divided; the little horn of Daniel 8 comes out of one of the four kingdoms into which the third (Grecian) empire was divided (Daniel 8:23), and in "the latter time" of the four kingdoms (Daniel 8:22); (Daniel 8:23). This was historically true of Antiochus Epiphanes. They are alike in hatred of the Jews and of God, and in profaning the temple.

Compare (Daniel 7:25) (the Beast) with (Daniel 8:10) (Antiochus):

one of them

Anticohus Epiphanes came out of Syria, one of the "four notable" kingdoms into which Alexander's empire was divided.