‘ONE OF PTOLEMY’S PRINCES SHALL BE STRONG ABOVE HIM, AND HAVE DOMINION: HIS DOMINION SHALL BE A GREAT DOMINION’ (DANIEL 11:5b)
Seleucus’s Dominion Shall Be A Great Dominion (Daniel 11:5b) It was this Scripture – Daniel 11:5b – which intrigued the coconut – throwing chimpanzee schoolmaster, Co-Co, in his youth. He became curious as to: Why was it that The Seleucid Empire became so great – almost as great as Alexander’s vast domain? What kind of a man was Seleucus? How did Seleucus come to have such a dominion when, at the death of Alexander, he was not even given a satrap [province] to govern? Perdiccas ( the Regent named by Alexander’s generals to govern until Alexander’s son borne by Roxana,…