Footnote

a Josephus recounts that Alexander entered Jerusalem and was shown the prophecy of Daniel: “And when the book of Daniel was shown to him, wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.”—Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, page 418, Whiston’s translation. The passages shown may have been Daniel 7:6; 8:3-8, 20, 21; 11:3. Alexander was greatly pleased, but did not see the necessity of learning the truth and worshiping the true God.