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Who is Alexander the Great?
        ALEXANDER THE GREAT
        the famous king of Macedonia and conqueror, died B.C. 323. He brought Europe and Asia into contact, made Greek the ruling language of civilization, and thus unconsciously prepared the way for the spiritual conquest of the gospel. He is not mentioned by name in the canonical books, but in the Apocrypha, 1 Mace. 1 : 1-9 j 6 : 2, and Head of Alexander the Great. (On a coin of Lysimachus, king of Thrace.) is meant in the prophecies of Daniel, where he is represented first as the belly of brass in Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the colossal statue, 1 Tim 2:39, and then in the vision of Daniel, under the figures of a leopard with four wings, and a one-horned he-goat, to indicate his great strength and the swiftness of his conquests, 1 Tim 7:6;1 Tim 8:5-7;Tim 11 : 3, 4. He succeeded his father, Philip, b.c. 336, conquered Syria, Palestine, Egypt, destroyed the Persian empire and substituted the Grecian, but died at the age of 32, from the effects of intemperance, in Babylon, and was buried in Alexandria, which he had founded, b.c. 332. His conquests were divided among his four generals. Josephus relates that after the siege of Tyre he visited Jerusalem; and being shown the prophecy of Daniel concerning himself, he granted the Jews everywhere the most important privileges. But the heathen historians ignore this event.


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