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vision goes on to say that the goat “rushed at the ram.”
This seems to imply that Alexander’s attack was unprovoked. This
was a surprise attack which happened quickly. History tells us that
he conquered a large amount of territory very quickly. That is the
meaning of the phrase, “ . . . coming from the west over the
surface of the whole earth without touching the ground . . .”
He started his conquest in about 334 B.C. and within eight years he
had expanded his empire into India. When he crossed the Hindu Kush
Mountains and dropped down into the Ganges Valley, his army mutinied.
Confronted with a rebellious army, Alexander the Great finally yielded
and agreed to go back home. He went south and then returned to the
region of Babylon where he died at the age of thirty-two as the result
of a fever.
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