Daniel 8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:25

‘And by his understanding he will cause deceit to prosper by his hand, and he will magnify himself in his heart and he will destroy many in security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes. But he will be broken without hand.’ His ‘understanding’ means his understanding of cunning. He used deceit to obtain victory and reap wealth. He was a man who could not be trusted. ‘Magnifying himself in his heart’ may well refer to his claims of deity. Once kings magnified themselves too... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:26

‘And the vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true. But shut up the vision for it belongs to many days.’ Compare Daniel 8:14. The spoken vision of the evenings and the mornings was of the period when the temple was desecrated, whether by a the ministrations of a false High Priest (Menelaus) or by the altar of Zeus. It would be a heavy burden for Israel if they considered the fact, that the sanctuary that they would so painfully erect would again be desecrated, and almost... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:27

‘And I Daniel was totally exhausted, and was sick certain days. Then I rose up and did the business of the king, and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it (or ‘I did not understand it’).’ The reception of the vision was exhausting and demanding, so much so that Daniel was ill and unable to carry out his duties for the king. And he spent much time pondering it in total astonishment. But as it had been explained to him it is difficult to believe that this means that he did not... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:1-27

Daniel 8. The Vision of the Ram and the He-goat.— This chapter gives an account of another vision which came to Daniel in Shushan. Near the river Ulai a ram with two horns is seen pushing invincibly westward and northward and southward. Suddenly from the W. a he-goat appears, attacks the ram, and breaks his horns. Then, the he-goat “ magnified himself exceedingly.” The “ notable horn” between his eyes is broken and four other horns spring up to take its place. Out of these four horns... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8

DANIEL CHAPTER 8 Daniel’s vision of the ram and he goat, Daniel 8:1-12. The days of suspension of the daily sacrifice, and desolation of the sanctuary, Daniel 8:13,Daniel 8:14. Gabriel comforteth Daniel, and interpreteth the vision, Daniel 8:15-27. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:1

This follows then in time after the former. Those things that were meet for the Chaldees to know are recorded by Daniel in that tongue; but now he writes in Hebrew, which lasts to the end of the book, because these things relate to the church of Christ, Jew and Gentile, to the end of the world. In the other vision he speaks of all the four monarchies, here only of the three first; this vision being both as a part and a comment upon the first. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:2

I was at Shushan; in his mind and thoughts, not bodily, and was by the river Ulai: some think he was locally there, being sent thither in embassy by Cyrus; but Daniel was now at Babylon, when it was besieged and taken, Daniel 5:0; he was only there in spirit, as the prophet Ezekiel saith he was in Jerusalem, Ezekiel 8:3. Now Daniel had this vision at Shushan, because their deliverance was to come by Cyrus the Persian or Elamite, for Elam is Persia. This city was called Shushan, i.e. a lily, for... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:3

Which had two horns; by which is meant the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, as it is in Daniel 8:20, where it is so interpreted. Before he was called a bear, and here a ram, both noting the same thing, though by different expressions. A ram because he is a fighting creature, pushing. The two horns were high, i.e. they were very powerful. One was higher than the other, i.e. the Median, that it came up last; but afterward the Persian was much superior in magnificence and fame, which was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:4

Westward, i.e. towards Babylon, Syria, Cappadocia. Asia the Less, and Greece, all westward from Media and Persia; for the Persians under Darius and Xerxes made war against Greece. Northward, i.e. against the Armenians, Iberians, Lydians, Colchi, Cusptans. Southward, i.e. against Ethiopia, Arabia, Egypt, which Cambyses invaded. No beasts might stand before him; they prospered and conquered all, as did Cyrus. He did according to his will, and became great; he prevailed against all that opposed,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:5

An he-goat; Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia and all Greece, called a he-goat because the Greeks were called Ægeans, as was their sea, that country and its islands abounding in goats, as the word signifies, goatish. The word he-goat signifies a young he-goat; for so was Alexander, called pellaeus juvenis. The he-goat goes before the flock, Jeremiah 1:8. This notes him to be the Grecian captain and leader. This he-goat answers to the belly and thighs of the image, and to the leopard and... read more

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