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x.xxvii.ix-p17.3

x.xxvii.ix-p17.381 words

7. moved with choler—Alexander represented the concentrated wrath of Greece against Persia for the Persian invasions of Greece; also for the Persian cruelties to Greeks, and Darius' attempts to seduce Alexander's soldiers to treachery [Newton].

stamped upon him—In 331 B.C. he defeated Darius Codomanus, and in 330 B.C. burned Persepolis and completed the conquest of Persia.

none … could deliver—Not the immense hosts of Persia could save it from the small army of Alexander (Ps 33:16).