14:1
Dani’el sees the peoples shut beyond the northern barriers stir against their confinement.
14:2
The gates associated with Alexander’s iron enclosure are opened, and nations pour into the inhabited lands like a flood.
14:3
Cities, roads, fields, and fortified places are overwhelmed; no imperial border proves sufficient.
14:4
The Syriac work uses the northern invasion as the first great movement of the end, not as permission to identify every later northern people with Gog and Magog.