precisely. We often do not know where the analogy stops. In this way, images preserve mystery about ideas that are ultimately beyond our comprehension.”50 Two final comments about adopting the Greek view of chapter 7. One of the arguments against the view is that we might reasonably expect the coming of God’s kingdom upon Antiochus’s death and a present situation in which God’s faithful are ruling over an everlasting kingdom (vv. 26–27). Obviously, this did not happen in the second century BC. But