The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-01-16

Softer, the first king of the southern divi-
sion OF Alexander divided empire, who is
called the King of the south, and Ptolemy
PhiladelphuS, his son or prince who sue
,;eeded him to the throne. 1t should be
remembered when the king of the mort h
is spoken of in this prophesy it refers to
the king, whoever that may be, ruling TIL e
northern portion of Alexander S divided
kingdom of which Syria was the capital
and the same may be said of the southern
kingdom of which Egypt was the capital
This statement will be made clear as we
study the remainder of the chapter. When
the second king, Ptolemy Philadelphu
son OF Ptoemy Softer, was on the southern
or Egyptian throne and therefore king of
the SOUTH Antiochus Thoes was the third
king on the northern or Syrian throne,
and therefore king of the north. Keep
ing these facts in mind we will examine
the 9th verse, which reads as follows:
And in the end of years they shall join
themselves together; for the king S daugh-
ter of the south shall come to the king of
the north to make an agreement: but she
shall not retain the powers of the arm
neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but
she shall be given up, and they that
brought her, and he that begat her, and
he that strengthened her in these times. -
This verse had most wonderful fulfill
ment, when Ptolemy Philadeiphus was
on the Egyptian throne and Antiochus
! Theos ON the syrian or northern throne.
/ These two kings We're involved in war, and
after a time the northern king had an in
surrection in his own dominion and was
obliged to bring the war with the south
ern king to close. The southern king
taking advantage of his straitened cir
cumstances, proposed terms of settlement
/ that would, as he thought, in time add
the northern kingdom to the southern,
which he was very anxious to do; so he
sent back to the northern king these
terms of settlement: That Antiochus
Theos, the northern king, should divorce
his wife Laodice and disinherit her two
sons and take Ptolemy Philadelphus', the
king of the south, daughter Berenice''
as his wife and queen, thus making her
children heirs to the northern kingdom,
and uniting the two kingdoms.
The northern king was obliged to sub
nit to these terms. 50, as stated in this
verse, they were joined together by the
king daughter of the SOUTH "Berenice, ="
going to the king of the north to make this
agreement, she being the bond of that
agreement. But the prophetic word says
Ell OF the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his
arm but She shall be given up and they
that brought her, and he that begat her,
and he that strengthened her, in these
times" We find that after Berenice Went
to be the wife of the northern king hel
father died. Then the northern king put
away Berenice and her son who had been
born to him and recalled Laodice, his
former wife. and reinstated her as queen.
Then Laodice poisoned her usband,
/ Antiochus TheoS. the northern king
and placed her son Seleucus Callnicus
upon the throne, and then went in pursuit
of Berenice and her son and destroyed
them with the Egyptian guard which ac-
companied Berenice from Egypt to hel
/ home in Syria and remained with her to
guard her in her Syrian home. With this
bit of history the 9th verse is very plain
and we can understand it as follows: land
in the end of years sometime after the
Kings mentioned in verse 9TH should end
their years. They (the Kings on the
throne when this union takes place
''Shall Join themselves together (unite)
''for the kings daughter of the south
(Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy Phil
adelphus king of Egypt ''shall come to
the king of the north to make an agree
ment." (Berenice the southern king S
daughter went from her home in Egypt to
Antiochus Theos the king of the north as
bond of agreement between the two kings
"but she shall not retain the power of
the arm (Berenice did not hold the
power she hoped to, for the northern king
after short time put her away and thus
she lost the power of the arm.) ''Neithe1
shall he stand' Laodice poisoned Anti
ochus, SO he did not stand, and by destroy
ing Berenice and her son also her Egyp
tian guards that brought her from Egypt
to Syria, and with the death of hel
father, or she that begat her." fulfills
the remainder of the 9th verse.
Gro BE Continued