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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Daniel 7:1-28

SECOND (PROPHETIC) DIVISIONChap. 7–121. The vision of the four world-kingdoms and of the Messianic kingdomDaniel 7:01In the first year of1 Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had [saw] a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.22Daniel spake3 and said, I saw4 in my vision by5 night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven [heavens] strove upon [were rushing to] the great sea. 3And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Daniel 7:1-14

God’s Everlasting Dominion Daniel 7:1-14 This chapter enumerates the succession of world-empires and rulers which bridge the gulf of centuries from the Captivity to the Second Advent. The lion represents Babylon, whose cruel and mighty kingdom was animated by marvelous intelligence; the bear, Persia; the leopard, Greece under Alexander the Great; and the fourth beast, with great iron teeth, Rome. The ten horns are ten kings, and these probably represent great European kingdoms which have... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:1-28

We come now to the second half of the Book, which consists of visions, with their interpretations, granted to Daniel through three reigns. During the reign of Belshazzar two visions were granted to him, which constitute the prophetic light of that particular period. The first of these was of four beasts rising from the sea, the last of which had ten horns. In their midst arose another, which destroyed them. The vision then became a vision of the setting of thrones, and the appearing of the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 7:2

DANIEL’S VISION‘My vision by night.’ Daniel 7:2 I. Forty years after Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, the prophet beholds in vision the same series of kingdoms.—The king saw a graphic representation of their strength and splendour declining from gold to iron; the prophet beheld emblems of their rapacity, destructiveness, and hostility towards God and His people. Nothing could more graphically set forth the essential characteristics of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, than the emergence of these... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:2

‘Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night and behold, the four winds of the heaven broke on the great sea. And four wild beasts came up from the sea, different one from another. The first was like a lion and had eagle’s wings. I beheld until its wings were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.’ From this point on Daniel speaks in the first person (apart from Daniel 10:1). Rather than recording... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:1-28

Daniel 7. The Vision of the Four Beasts.— From this point onwards the Book becomes purely apocalyptic. The vision of the four beasts is parallel to the vision of the image in Daniel 2. The beasts rise out of the sea. The first is a lion with eagle’ s wings, the second a bear, the third a leopard, the fourth a nameless and terrible creature with ten horns. Among the ten horns of the fourth beast there arises another “ little horn” with the eyes of a man, which destroys three of the other... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 7:2

Because Daniel doth not expound what is meant by winds, expositors think there is room left for every one’s conjecture; wherein this seems most likely, that by the four winds of the great sea is signified commotions of contrary nations and factions, striving together by wars, and producing these four beasts successively. That this is often signified by winds, see Jeremiah 49:36; Jeremiah 51:1; in the destruction of Babylon, the first monarchy; and of Elam, i.e. the Persian monarchy. The great... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Daniel 7:1-7

HOMILETICSSECT. XXII.—THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS (Chap. Daniel 7:1-7)We now come to the second and principal part of the Book of Daniel, the prophetical portion, the narratives it contains being merely introductory to the visions. The present, as well as the succeeding chapter, chronologically anterior to the preceding one, this vision having been given in the first year of the reign of Belshazzar, probably twenty-three before the events narrated in the preceding chapter; the editor or... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Daniel 7:1-28

Daniel 7:1-28 The principles which underlie this prophecy are at once profoundly suggestive and exceedingly important. I. Foremost among them we find the terribly significant truth that earthly power in and of itself degenerates into brutality. The appropriate symbol of a great empire is a wild beast. II. Observe that the tendency of this brutality is to increase. The four beasts that Daniel saw came in this order; first the lion, then the bear, then the panther, then that composite, unnamed,... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Daniel 7:2

great sea The "sea" in Scripture imagery stands for the populace, the mere unorganized mass of mankind Matthew 13:47; Revelation 13:1. read more