And it waxed great
This passage (Daniel 8:10-14) is confessedly the most difficult in prophecy, a difficulty increased by the present state of the text. Historically this was fulfilled in and by Antiochus Epiphanes, but in a more intense and final sense Antiochus but adumbrates the awful blasphemy of the "little horn" of; (Daniel 7:8); (Daniel 7:24); (Daniel 7:25); (Daniel 9:27); (Daniel 11:36-45); (Daniel 12:11). In Daniel (Daniel 8:10-14) the actions of both "little horns" blend.