daniel-8:20-22-ntv

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 8:20-22

Gabriel identified the ram with the two horns as Media and Persia (cf. Daniel 8:3-4), not just Media as many liberal interpreters insist because of their second-century composition hypothesis. The goat, here further described as shaggy, represents Greece (cf. Daniel 8:5-7), not Persia as many liberals contend. The large horn on the goat is the first king of Greece, namely, Alexander the Great. The four kingdoms that arose to replace Alexander when he died were Macedonia and Greece, Thrace and... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:1-27

The Vision of the Ram and the He-GoatIn the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa (Daniel 8:1-2). He sees a two-homed ram which behaves aggressively for a time (Daniel 8:3-4), but is attacked and overthrown by a he-goat which comes rapidly from the w, (Daniel 8:5-7). The he-goat has a notable horn (Daniel 8:5), which is presently broken, and instead of which four others come up (Daniel 8:8). From one of these there springs a little... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 8:20-22

(20-22) See Notes on Daniel 8:3-8. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 8:22

(22) Not in his power—i.e., not like the first king. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 8:1-27

Daniel 8:2 In his Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. John Semple, minister of Carsphairn in Galloway, Patrick Walker tells how 'that night after his wife died, he spent the whole ensuing night in prayer and meditation in his garden. The next morning, one of his elders coming to see him, and lamenting his great loss and want of rest, he replied: "I declare I have not, all night, had one thought of the death of my wife, I have been so taken up in meditating on heavenly things. I... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 8:1-27

THE RAM AND THE HE-GOATThis vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the date, since it is almost exclusively occupied with the establishment of the Greek Empire, its dissolution into the kingdoms of the Diadochi, and the godless despotism of King Antiochus Epiphanes.The seer imagines himself to be in the palace of Shushan: "As I beheld I was in the castle of Shushan." It has been supposed by some that Daniel was really... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Daniel 8:1-27

CHAPTER 8 The Ram and the He-Goat 1. The vision (Daniel 8:1-14 ) 2. The interpretation of the vision (Daniel 8:15-27 ) Daniel 8:1-14 . Beginning with this chapter to the end of the book prophecy will lead us mostly upon Jewish ground. While some of these prophecies were fulfilled in the past, most of them are related to the future when the great end fulfillment takes place before the coming of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven to receive the kingdom. The phrases “the latter times,”... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 8:22

8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up {f} out of the nation, but not {g} in his power.(f) That is, out of Greece.(g) They will not have similar power as Alexander had. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Daniel 8:1-27

THE RAM AND THE HE - GOAT How much later was this vision than the preceding? Where was it revealed to Daniel (Daniel 8:2 )? It is important to keep in mind that it covers the same ground as the preceding, except that the story begins, not with Babylon’s supremacy, but that of the Medes and Persians represented by the ram (Daniel 8:3 ), though in the former vision by the bear. The higher horn of the ram is the Persian half of the empire. The united empire made conquests west, north and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Daniel 8:20-27

Who this fierce king points at, or what awful indignation is to take place at the time, when the latter kingdom shall come, and the transgressions are come to the full; I presume not to say. But one spiritual improvement ariseth out of it, which both Writer and Reader will do well to regard: namely, how awful are all the Lord's visitations, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. We behold Daniel's mind so affected in the very contemplation of it, that though he knew it would not happen in... read more