Daniel 11:18

18. Isles Or, coasts. This refers especially to the campaign by sea and land which Antiochus waged against Asia Minor, so disastrously terminated by the battle mentioned above. But a prince, etc. Rather, but a captain shall make his ( insults) to cease, yea, his reproach ( insults) shall he turn back upon him. While the construction here is difficult the meaning is plain; the reference is no doubt to the well-known controversy between this insolent king after he had seized all the Asiatic possessions of Philip of Macedon, and had crossed over into Europe to continue his aggressions, and the Roman general and ambassador Lucius Scipio. As reported by the ancient historians, this interview was very dramatic. When Antiochus was politely requested by the Roman ambassador to restrain his ambitions he insolently replied, “As I do not trouble myself about Italy, why should the Romans trouble themselves about Asia?” The severe chastisement which immediately followed at the battle of Magnesia, while it perhaps did not directly answer the king’s question, at least put an effectual stop to further arrogant interrogations on his part.