66. It is clearly apparent that this vision foretells future states of the church, for we are told that the continual sacrifice was taken away from the Prince of the host, that the habitation of His sanctuary was cast down, and that the goat cast truth to the ground. We are told as well that the holy one spoke, saying, "How long will this vision be, the continual sacrifice and the ruinous transgression, so that the sanctuary and the host are given to be trampled on?" And that this would be until evening [and] morning, when the sanctuary would be made right. For evening means the end of the church, when there would be a new one.

After that, in the same chapter, the kings of Media and Persia have the same meaning as the ram, and the king of Greece the same meaning as the goat. For in the Word, the names of kingdoms, nations and peoples, and of persons and places, symbolize matters having to do with heaven and the church.