“And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.”
Three more kings will arise in Persia, and a fourth will be far richer than all of them; when he becomes strong by his wealth, he will stir up the whole world against the realm of Greece—prophesying the succession of Persian kings culminating in Xerxes (and possibly including Darius III) whose conflicts with Greece set the stage for Alexander's conquests. The reference to wealth emphasizes how material power, paradoxically, motivates aggressive expansion. This prophecy validates the vision's comprehensiveness in addressing political causation.
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