This image's head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Ver. 32. The image's head was of fine gold.] This is the first, and till now, altogether unheard of prophecy concerning the four monarchies of the world. Res plane digna quae memoriae tota commendetur, saith one; a a scripture worthy to be well remembered, because it briefly comprehendeth the history of all ages to the world's end.
His breast and his arms of silver.] The elder they are the baser; so is Rome papal, of which one of her sons, b over two hundred years since, complained, not without good cause, that she was become of gold, silver; of silver, iron; of iron, earth; superesse ut in stercus abiret, and that she would turn next into dung.
a Sleid. Deu 4:1-49 Monarch.
b Theodoric Urias, A.D. 1414.