“He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.”
Without warning he will enter the richest parts of the province; he will accomplish what his fathers never did nor his fathers' fathers; he will scatter among them plunder, booty, and wealth; he will devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time—prophesying Antiochus IV's plundering of wealthy cities and temples, including potentially the Jerusalem Temple, to fund his ambitions and military campaigns, but warning that this enrichment and military success will prove temporary. The emphasis on treasures and wealth indicates his mercenary motivation. The temporal limitation ("only for a time") promises eventual reversal.
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