The Enemy of the Saints (Ch. 8). 

        The interpretation of this vision is in large measure given (vers. 19-26), and from this it is clear that in the first place it refers predominantly to the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes. On the other hand there is every reason for supposing that this does not exhaust its meaning, for it is clearly stated that “it belongeth to the appointed time of the end” (ver. 19, R.V.). Such an extension of the prophecy hardly seems to justify the prolonging of the primary inter­pretation beyond the time of Antiochus Epiphanes. In other words we should look on Antiochus rather as a foreshadowing of him who finally fulfills the vision when the Antichrist comes.