Daniel 8:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

He was moved with choler. - Alexander represented the concentrated wrath of Greece against Persia for the Persian invasions of Greece; also for the Persian cruelties to Greeks, and Darius' attempts to seduce Alexander's soldiers to treachery (Newton).

Stamped upon him. In 331 BC he defeated Darius Codomanus, and in 330 BC burned Persepolis, and completed the conquest of Persia.

None ... could deliver the ram out of his hand - not the immense hosts of Persia could save it from the small army of Alexander (Psalms 33:16).

Daniel 8:7

7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.