Daniel 7:8

8. This little horn and his horrible deeds will be described in detail later (Daniel 7:24-25; chap. 11). It may be noticed, however, that it is the conduct of the king represented by this little horn which makes this fourth empire the most terrible and most hated of all. (See note Daniel 7:7.) That this king, with the boastful and blasphemous mouth (Daniel 7:25; Daniel 11:36) and “the eyes of a man” (symbolizing keen sagacity, artfulness, and spying vigilance, compare Daniel 8:23), was Antiochus Epiphanes even Zockler and Gutschmidt agree. Lagarde’s conjecture (1891), that it designated Vespasian, hardly needs confutation. Konig ( Einleitung, p. 390) and others have shown how far Vespasian failed to fit the description, even if the date of the book could permit such a reference. Kamphausen well says that Lagarde’s guess is no more scientific than that of the old woman of Freiburg who in 1882 declared that this little saucy horn was no doubt the Prussian empire.