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

To the Reader.

fourth, the 4 beasts, and among them that wild boar with ten horns, and another small one with a mouth and eyes: raising the clouds to that one who, like a son of man, which is the Messiah, presents himself to the sovereign Majesty to receive from His powerful hand the universal empire of the world. All this has cost, and still does, some work and industry. Receive, then, Reader, with a good countenance this affection, and soon I will give you, with divine favor, the 70 weeks of Daniel, and in the meantime, farewell.

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