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LESSON XVII.
1. How was Antiochus's punishment of the traitors foretold?--_Dan_. xi. 14.
2. What were the conquests predicted in the 15th verse?
3. How did he treat Judea?--verse 16th.
4. What alliance did he make?
5. What was the prophecy of this marriage?--verse 17th.
6. What expedition was predicted in the 18th verse?
7. What checked him in this expedition?
8. What became of Antiochus the Great?
9. How was this predicted?--verse 19.
10. Who were the Romans?
11. What were they in Nebuchadnezzar's dream?--_Dan_. ii. 33.
12. What were they in Daniel's vision?--_Dan_, vii. 7.
13. Why were they like iron?
14. To what were they most devoted?
15. What great Phoenician city had they conquered?
16. What yoke did the Romans impose on Syria?
17. What was the name of the successor of Antiochus?
18. How does Daniel describe him?--Dan. xi. 20.
19. What sacrilegious attempt was made in the time of Seleueus?
20. How was it punished?
21. What was the end of Seleueus?
22. Who succeeded him, and by what means?
23. How was the success of Antiochus Epiphanes foretold?--Dan. si. 21.
24. What was he in Daniel's vision?--Dan. viii. 9.
25. What was his character?
26. How was his preference of Roman to Greek G.o.ds foretold?--Dan. xi.
27. What terrible apostasy took place among the Jews?
28. How had Zechariah predicted the fall of the Priests? Zech. xi. 16.
29. What war was predicted in Daniel xi.?
30. What wickedness was being perpetrated at Jerusalem?
31. How had this sacrilege been foretold?--verses 30, 31.--viii. 11, 12.
32. How had the martyrdoms been foretold?--viii. 10.
33. What Psalms are applicable to this persecution?-- lxxiv.--lxxix.--lx.x.x.
34. What were the most remarkable martyrdoms?
35. In what apocryphal book are they recorded?
36. What was the remarkable difference between these and Christian martyrs?
LESSON XVIII.
1. What deliverers were raised up for the Jews?
2. Why was the family of Mattathias called Asmonean?
3. How was Mattathias first roused to resistance?
4. What purification did Mattathias make?
5. What were the predictions of him and his sons?--Dan. xi. 32, 33.
6. Who succeeded Mattathias?
7. How arose the name of Maccabees?
8. What was the great work of Judaa Maccabaeus?
9. What was the end of Antiochus Epiphanes?
10. How had it been predicted?--Dan. xi. 44, 45.
11. What was the death of Eleazar?
