11/20/2022 0 Comments Commentary on the book of daniel pdf![]() ![]() Darius was sixty-two years old ( Daniel 5:31 ) when he began to reign during his short reign of two years, being a weak king ( Daniel 6:1-3 ), the government was almost entirely in Cyrus' hands. the higher came up last-Persia, which was of little note till Cyrus' time, became then ascendant over Media, the more ancient kingdom. "Horn" in the East is the symbol of power and royalty. two horns-The " two" ought not to be in italics, as if it were not in the original for it is expressed by the Hebrew dual. Perhaps because synagogues used to be built near rivers, as before praying they washed their hands in the water, ( Psalms 137:1 ).ģ. So Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 1:1 ) at the Chebar. So in Daniel 10:4 he receives a vision near another river, the Hiddekel. Ulai-called in PLINY Euloeus by the Greeks, Choaspes. Daniel was not present there personally, but in vision. Therefore Daniel is transported into it, as being the capital of the kingdom signified by the two-horned ram ( Nehemiah 1:1, Esther 1:2-5 ).Įlam-west of Persia proper, east of Babylonia, south of Media. Though then comparatively insignificant, it was destined to be the capital of Persia after Cyrus' time. vision-a higher kind of revelation than a dream.Īfter that. Between the two visions the ninth chapter is inserted, as to Messiah and the covenant-people at the end of the half millennium (seventy weeks of years).ġ. The vision, the eighth chapter, begins, and that, the tenth through twelfth chapters, concludes, the account of the Antichrist of the third kingdom. Antichrist, like Christ, has a more immediate future, as well as one more remote. The scene here narrows from world-wide prophecies to those affecting the one covenant-people in the five centuries between the exile and the advent. With this chapter the Hebrew part of the book begins and continues to be the language of the remainder the visions relating wholly to the Jews and Jerusalem. ![]() VISION OF THE RAM AND HE-GOAT: THE TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF THE SANCTUARY BEING TRODDEN DOWN. ![]()
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