Daniel 7:1-18 WEB

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:9-10

Daniel 7:9-10The ancient of days did sit.The Ancient of Days Coming to JudgmentDaniel claimed two offices for the Messiah. 1. He should be a King. 2. A Judge. These claims rested on the unity of nature--the “ancient of days “ being “brought near “ and taking “hold of, the Son of man; thus making both One and this One offering a propitiation--being “out off,” but not from Himself. The first claim has been met; Christ is the King! He shall be the Judge Kingship becomes the guarantee of Judgeship.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:13-14

Daniel 7:13-14One like the son of Man.Messiah’s KingdomDaniel had this vision some fifty years after Nebuchadnezzar had the Vision of the composite image: but his vision harmonizes with it, and is descriptive of the same great kings and monarchies. The kingdom given to the Son of Man is the kingdom which was symbolized by the stone cut out without hands, which grew into a great mountain and filled the whole earth. I. WHEN THIS KINGDOM WAS GIVEN TO OUR LORD. 1. Our Lord is described as coming... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:18

Daniel 7:18But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom.The Political Character of the Good Time Coming“There is a good time coming,” so says the poet, so saith the Scriptures. The golden age of the world is not in the past, it is in the future, the age of immortal light, liberty, peace, virtue, religion, and blessedness are all ahead. The text indicates the political character of that golden age. I. IT WILL HAVE A GOOD GOVERNMENT. “The saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom.”... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:1

Dan 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters. Ver. 1. In the first year of Belshazzar. ] Here beginneth, to speak properly, the prophecy of Daniel, or rather the second part of Daniel’s works, which is concerning visions exhibited of God by divine revelations, not to others, but to himself. This vision is the subject and groundwork of the rest that follow to the end of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:2

Dan 7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. Ver. 2. Daniel spake and said. ] His writing is called his speaking, to teach us to receive the writings of the prophets and apostles with no less reverence than if we had heard them speak with their own mouths. a I saw in my vision by night. ] The night doth in Scripture frequently signify trouble. This "vision by night" was of troublesome businesses - viz.,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:3

Dan 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Ver. 3. And four great beasts. ] Regnorum feritas bestiarum nomine demonstratur, saith Jerome. The fierceness of the four kingdoms is set forth by the name of beasts. Bellum a belluis. Monarchies are mostly gotten, kept, and governed with violence and tyranny. Psa 76:4 Son 4:8 Regna mundana parantur et retinentur bellis. Commune vitium monarchiis et tyrannis. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:4

Dan 7:4 The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. Ver. 4. The first was like a lion. ] Which is the king of beasts (as the eagle is of birds), generous, strong, fierce, fair-conditioned; so were the Assyrian monarchs in comparison of those that followed them. And had eagle’s wings.] Whereby is noted their victorious celerity... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:5

Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. Ver. 5. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear. ] Which is nothing so generous and ingenuous as a lion; but slow, dull, cruel, ravenous. Such were the Persians; a mountainous, rough, uncivil people, of barbarous and beastly cruelty. And it raised up itself on one... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:6

Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. Ver. 6. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard. ] Which is a creature cruel, desirous of man’s blood, crafty, spotted, and very swift of foot. So were the Grecians; Alexander especially (the founder of that third monarchy), active, bold, and headlong, but directed much by those who had been counsellors to his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:7

Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns. Ver. 7. Behold a fourth beast. ] Not likened to any certain beast, because none can be named so cruel which can express the cruelty of this fourth monarchy - viz., that of the Romans,... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:9-10

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:13-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:18

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:6

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:7

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