519.
Four such ruling kingdoms did arise.

The first, the Babylonian, was in being when the prophecy is represented to have been given.

It was followed by the Persian; the Persian gave way to the Grecian; the Roman closed the series.
This is stoutly denied by Eichhorn, who contends that the Mede or Medo-Persian is the second--if I recollect aright.

But it always struck me that Eichhorn, like other learned Infidels, is caught in his own snares.

For if the prophecies are of the age of the first Empire, and actually delivered by Daniel, there is no reason why the Roman Empire should not have been predicted;--for superhuman predictions, the last two at least must have been.