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Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Daniel 11:1-45

CHAPTER 11 The Wars of the Ptolemies and Seleucidae Predicted The Coming Events of the End 1. The wars of the Ptolemies and Seleucidae (Daniel 11:1-35 ) 2. The time of the end and the man of sin (Daniel 11:36-45 ) Daniel 11:1-35 . Here we have history pre-written and the greater part of this chapter (Daniel 11:2-35 ) is fulfilled historically. So accurate are these predictions and their subsequent fulfillment that the enemies of “the Scripture of truth” have declared that it could never... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 11:30

11:30 For the ships {h} of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, {i} and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.(h) That is, the Roman power will come against him: for P. Popilius the ambassador appointed him to depart in the Romans’ name, which he obeyed, although with grief, and to avenge his rage he came against the people of God the second time.(i)... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Daniel 11:1-35

“A GREAT WARFARE ” Note the late date of this prophecy (Daniel 10:1 ), and the different rendering of a phrase in the Revised Version, where “even a great warfare” is substituted for “the time appointed was long.” As the unveiling of the lesson will show, this phrase is an appropriate title for it. Note the physical and spiritual preparation of the prophet for the revelation that follows (Daniel 10:2-4 ), a condition into which he had doubtless brought himself by prayer. Had he been seeking... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Daniel 11:5-45

If my Reader be more curious to make search into hidden things, than to turn over again and again those which the Lord hath revealed; I fear that he will not be pleased with the shortness I purpose to observe, in my Commentary on this Chapter, and in including almost the whole Chapter under one view. But my apology is this. Where the word of God is not very clear and plain, I humbly conceive, that the Lord's intuition is, in this obscurity, his people should humbly wait the explanation of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Daniel 11:30

Galleys. Hebrew: "ships of Chittim." (Haydock) --- The ambassadors probably came in vessels belonging to Macedonia, (Calmet) which they found at Delos. (Livy xliv.) --- Romans. Popilius and the other Roman ambassadors, who came in galleys, and obliged him to depart from Egypt. (Challoner) --- He was only four or seven miles from Alexandria, and went to meet the ambassadors, who gave him the senate's letter, ordering him to desist from the war. He said he would consult his friends: but Popilius... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 11:1-30

1-30 The angel shows Daniel the succession of the Persian and Grecian empires. The kings of Egypt and Syria are noticed: Judea was between their dominions, and affected by their contests. From ver. Daniel 11:5-30, is generally considered to relate to the events which came to pass during the continuance of these governments; and from ver. Daniel 11:21, to relate to Antiochus Epiphanes, who was a cruel and violent persecutor of the Jews. See what decaying, perishing things worldly pomp and... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Daniel 11:1-99

Daniel 11 WE NOW COME to the last of the prophetic revelations, received and recorded by Daniel. The opening verses of chapter 11, indeed the larger part of the chapter, give us predictions that very evidently have long since been fulfilled. If our readers will glance at the close of verse Dan_11:35 , they will see the words, 'to the time of the end, because it is yet for a time appointed'. Then turning back to Dan_9:26 , they will see the words, 'unto the end'; and at that point came the... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Daniel 11:21-45

Further Revelations Concerning the Future v. 21. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, a despicable and morally contemptible character, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom, who seized the royal power and authority against the will of the nation; but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries, that is, come in unexpectedly; while men thought that the rightful heir would succeed to the throne, Antiochus Epiphanes obtained the kingdom by... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Daniel 11:1-45

b. Detailed prophetic description of the Persian and Græcian world-kingdoms, and also of the kingdoms which should arise from the latter, together with their conflicts.Daniel 11:2-45.      2And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in [to] Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by [according to] his strength through [by] his riches he shall stir up all [the whole] against [with] the realm of Græcia [kingdom of Javan].3And a mighty... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Daniel 11:30-45

Arrogance Overthrown Daniel 11:30-45 The career of Antiochus Epiphanes, in persecuting the people of God and plotting against Jehovah and His sanctuary, is so described as to suggest that it also includes further fulfillments, and especially that last Antichrist, of whom Antiochus was the pre-figurement. So accurate is the correspondence between this prophecy and its historical fulfillment that Porphyry, the opponent of Christianity, maintained that this description was written after the... read more

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