Chapter 46
1 How then can we fail to understand the things prophesied long ago in Babylon by Daniel and even now being fulfilled in the world?
2 For the image shown at that time to Nebuchadnezzar contained the figure of the kingdom of the whole world.
3 In which times the Babylonians then reigned, being the golden head of the image.
4 Then after them the Persians held power for two hundred and forty-five years, so that they are shown to be the silver.
5 After these the Greeks held power, beginning from Alexander the Macedonian, for three hundred years, so that these are the bronze.
6 After these the Romans, being the iron legs of the image, strong as the iron.
7 Then the toes of the feet, that there might be shown the democracies in their several places that are to come, divided into the ten toes of the image, in which the iron will be mingled with the clay.