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Daniel 11:5

And the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his princes shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for his dominion shall be great.

Challoner: The king of the southPtolemeus the son of Lagus, king of Egypt, which lies south of Jerusalem.-- Ibid.

Challoner: One of his princesthat is, one of Alexander's princes, shall prevail over him: that is, shall be stronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks of Seleucus Nicator, king of Asia and Syria, whose successors are here called the kings of the north, because their dominions lay to the north in respect to Jerusalem.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et confortabitur rex austri : et de principibus ejus prævalebit super eum, et dominabitur ditione : multa enim dominatio ejus.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἐνισχύσει ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ νότου· καὶ εἷς τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτῶν ἐνισχύσει ἐπ᾽ αὐτῶν καὶ κυριεύσει κυρίαν πολλήν.
Hebrew (WLC): וְיֶחֱזַ֥ק מֶֽלֶךְ הַנֶּ֖גֶב וּמִן שָׂרָ֑יו וְיֶחֱזַ֤ק עָלָיו֙ וּמָשָׁ֔ל מִמְשָׁ֥ל רַ֖ב מֶמְשַׁלְתּֽוֹ

Haydock's commentary

South: Ptolemeus, the son of Lagus, king of Egypt, which lies south of Jerusalem. (Challoner)

St. Irenæus (iv. 43.) observes, that all prophecies are obscure till they be fulfilled. History shews that this relates to Ptolemy. The kingdoms of Egypt and of Syria are more noticed, as they had much to do with the Jews. (Worthington)

Ptolemy took Cyprus (Calmet) and Jerusalem. (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities xii. 12.)

His princes (that is, one of Alexander's princes) shall prevail over him; that is, shall be stronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks of Seleucus Nicator, king of Asia and Syria, whose successors are here called the kings of the north, because their dominions lay to the north in respect to Jerusalem. (Challoner)

Nicator means a "conqueror." (Haydock)

This king was master of all from Media and Babylonia to Jerusalem. (Appian, &c.; Calmet)

Philadelphus was more powerful than his father. (Worthington)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.