Chugley's Chatter

Chugley, The Thinking Chimpanzee, apologizes to all those who are reading his Sunday Scroll Through ‘Daniel 11’. His Schoolmaster, Co-Co, The Coconut-Throwing Chimpanzee Schoolmaster, has been suffering this last week from a case of The Chimpanzee Chills and is still not entirely recovered. Chugley has kindly allowed his former schoolmaster to write this column but he is most concerned for his old schoolmaster’s health and has only asked that he dictate a brief explanation for the Sunday Column’s absence. Next Week: If GOD pleases, ‘One of The Biggest Battles of The Hellenistic World’ – and, ironically, it took place some…

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‘But His [Seleucus II’s] Sons shall be stirred up, And shall assemble A Multitude of Great Forces: And One [Ptolemy 1V] shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: Then shall He [Antiochus III] return, and be stirred up [ again], even to His fortress” (Daniel 11:10) Seleucus II had two sons: Seleucus III who ruled for two years from 225 B.C.E. – 223 B.C.E. Antiochus III who ruled for thirty six years from 223 B.C.E. – 187 B.C.E It is the second of these two sons, Antiochus III, Antiochus The Great, who dominates the next nine verses in Daniel…

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