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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:4

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings - Bp. Newton well remarks, that these great beasts, as explained by the angel, Daniel 7:17 , are kingdoms. They arise out of a stormy and tempestuous sea; that is, out of the wars and commotions of the world; and they are called great in comparison of other states and kingdoms, and are denominated beasts for their tyrannical and cruel oppression. These four beasts are indeed monstrous productions; a lion with eagle's wings; a bear with... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:5

Another beast - like to a bear - This was the Medo-Persian empire, represented here under the symbol of the bear, as the largest species of these animals was found in Media, a mountainous, cold, and rough country, covered with woods. The Medes and Persians are compared to a bear on account of their cruelty and thirst after blood, a bear being a most voracious and cruel animal; the bear is termed by Aristotle an all-devouring animal; and the Medo-Persians are known to have been great robbers... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:6

Another like a leopard - four wings - four heads - This was the Macedonian or Greek empire; and Alexander the Great its king. Alexander and his subjects are fitly compared to a leopard. The leopard is remarkable for its swiftness. Alexander and the Macedonians were very rapid in their conquests. The leopard is a spotted animal; a proper emblem of the various nations, with their various customs and languages, which constituted the Macedonian empire. It may refer to the character of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:7

I saw - a fourth beast - it had great iron teeth - This is allowed, on all hands, to be the Roman empire. It was dreadful, terrible, and exceeding strong: it devoured, and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue, that is, the remains of the former kingdoms, with its feet. It reduced Macedon into a Roman province about one hundred and sixty-eight years before Christ; the kingdom of Pergamos about one hundred and thirty-three years; Syria about sixty-five; and Egypt about thirty years before... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:8

Another little horn - Among Protestant writers this is considered to be the popedom. Before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up - These were probably, The exarchate of Ravenna. The kingdom of the Lombards. And, The state of Rome. The first was given to the Pope, Stephen II., by Pepin, king of France, a.d. 755; and this constituted the pope's temporal princes. The second was given to St. Peter by Charlemagne, in 774. The third, the state of Rome, was vested in the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:2

Verse 2 He repeats again, He saw in his vision during the night. Again, I say, Daniel affirms that he brought forward nothing but what God had authoritatively delivered to him. For we know that in the Church all human traditions ought to be treated as worthless, since all men’s wisdom is vanity and lies. As God alone deserves to be listened to by the faithful, so Daniel here asserts that he offers nothing of his own by dreaming: in the ordinary way, but, that the vision is sure, and such as... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:3

Verse 3 After Daniel had beheld these great commotions which were shaking the earth in different parts, another vision was offered to him. What has already been said concerning the troubled sea and the conflict of the winds, is extended to the four monarchies, concerning which we shall now treat. A certain preparation is intended when God offers to the eyes of his Prophet a turbulent sea produced by the conflict of the winds. Just as if he should say — after these troubles others shall spring... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:4

Verse 4 It is clear that the four monarchies are here depicted. But it is not agreed upon among all writers which monarchy is the last, and which the third. With regard to the first, all agree in understanding’ the vision of the Chaldean Empire, which was joined with the Assyrian, as we saw before. For Nineveh was absorbed by the Chaldeans and Babylonians; but the Prophet discourses at length of the Assyrian and Chaldean Empire, which was then flourishing. No one, however, would have thought it... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:5

Verse 5 Here the Prophet. proclaims how he was instructed by a dream concerning the second beast. If we will only judge by the event, this beast doubtless represented the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, although the Prophet specifies the Persians, as the Medes had long ago submitted to their yoke. Behold, says he, another beast like a bear. We know a bear to be a mean and foul animal, slothful and inert, as well as cruel. In comparing the bear with the lion, its appearance is foul and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:6

Verse 6 Daniel has already spoken of two empires, namely, the Chaldean and Persian. Interpreters agree in the necessity for referring this vision to the Macedonian Empire. He compares this kingdom to a leopard, or, as some translate, a panther, since Alexander obtained his great power through swiftness alone; and although it is not by any means a striking animal, yet it managed by its remarkable speed to subdue the whole east Others bring forward many points of likeness, in which the Grecian... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:6

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