Menasseh ben Israel — Even yeqarah / Piedra gloriosa o de la estatua de Nebuchadnesar (1655)

plates. In the first, you will see written on the head, arms, and belly, the three Monarchies, and the last, the Roman and Mahometan Referring to the Islamic empires. division, on the two legs; and how, from a stone that comes out of a mountain and strikes its feet, a mountain is made that fills the entire earth, for the significance of which I enclosed it within a sphere. The stone is the Messiah, from which hero this book takes the name אבן יקרה Even Yeqarah GLORIOUS STONE, seen in Ezekiel original: "Iehazkel". In the second, you will see how three angels descend by the ladder (in the middle of which, corresponding to Jerusalem, you see Jacob original: "Iahacob" asleep) and another at the summit ascending, representing the fall of the 3 preceding Monarchies and the rise in which we experience the last one. In the third, David felling that giant Goliath, prostrate at his feet, which so naturally represents the same lofty Statue. Finally, in the fourth,