Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.

I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days - an intimation that the prophecy, besides describing the doings of Antiochus, reaches to the concluding calamities of Israel's history, prior to the nation's full restoration at Christ's second coming-calamities of which Antiochus' persecutions were the type.

For yet the vision is for many days - i:e., extends far into the future.

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