Re: MI5-Persecution: Why do you think MI5 are responsible? (2369)

but he shall not be
strengthened by it. For the king of the north," (Antiochus the Great),
"shall return with a greater multitude than before, and in those times also
a great number of enemies shall stand up against the king of the south,"
(during the reign of the young Ptolemy Epiphanes); "also the apostates and
robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but
they shall fall." (Those who abandon their religion to please Euergetes,
when he will send his troops to Scopas; for Antiochus will again take
Scopas, and conquer them.) "And the king of the north shall destroy the
fenced cities, and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and all shall
yield to his will; he shall stand in the land of Israel, and it shall yield
to him. And thus he shall think to make himself master of all the empire of
Egypt, (despising the youth of Epiphanes, says Justin). "And for that he
shall make alliance with him, and give his daughter" (Cleopatra, in order
that she may betray her husband. On which Appian says that, doubting his
ability to make himself master of Egypt by force, because of the protection
of the Romans, he wished to attempt it by cunning). "He shall wish to
corrupt her, but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. Then
he shall turn his face to other designs, and shall think to make himself
master of some isles, (that is to say, seaports), "and shall take many," (as
Appian says).

"But a prince shall oppose, his conquests," (Scipio Africanus, who stopped
the progress of Antiochus the Great, because he offended the Romans in the
perso