“ The male of the goats, for its part, put on great airs to an extreme; but as soon as it became mighty, the great horn was broken, and there proceeded to come up conspicuously four instead of it, toward the four winds of the heavens....
और वह सींग जो टूट गया और उसकी सन्ती जो चार सींग निकले, इसका अर्थ यह है कि उस जाति से चार राज्य उदय होंगे, परन्तु उसका बल उस पहले का सा न होगा । ” — दानिय्येल ८: ८, २१, २२.