George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Daniel 10:20
To thee? He awakens his attention (verse 14.) (Calmet) and gratitude. (Haydock) --- Prince, angel guardian; or Alexander, who would one day rout the Persians. (Chap. xi. 2.) (Calmet)
To thee? He awakens his attention (verse 14.) (Calmet) and gratitude. (Haydock) --- Prince, angel guardian; or Alexander, who would one day rout the Persians. (Chap. xi. 2.) (Calmet)
Verse Daniel 10:20. _KNOWEST THOU WHEREFORE I COME_] So high art thou in the favour of God, that he hath sent me unto thee to give thee farther satisfaction; though I was elsewhere employed upon a mos...
THEN SAID HE, KNOWEST THOU WHEREFORE I COME UNTO THEE? - This was known by what the angel had said in Daniel 10:14. He seems to have called his attention to it, and to have proposed the question, beca...
CHAPTER 10 THE PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL PROPHECY This chapter contains the preface to the final great prophecies as found in the last two Chapter s of this book. The certain man who appeared unto Dan...
DANIEL 10. INTRODUCTION TO THE FINAL VISION. The last three Chapter s of Daniel form a unity and describe the final vision. Daniel 10 is introductory. A shining being appears to Daniel near the great...
_Knowest thou_, &c. A rhetorical question, designed to recall to Daniel what had been said in Daniel 10:12_; Daniel 10:14_, and to indicate to him its importance. _and now will I return_, &c. to carry...
TO FIGHT, &C.— _To withstand the prince of Persia._...
c. ANGELIC ACTIVITY TEXT: Daniel 10:15-21 15 And when he had spoken unto me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was dumb. 16 And, behold, one in the likeness of the sons...
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. THEN SAID HE, KNOWEST...
10:20 Greece (a-32) Heb. _ Javan_ , as ch. 8.21....
THE FINAL VISION These chs, form a connected whole, with three sub-divisions. Daniel 10:1 to Daniel 11:1 are introductory; Daniel 11:2 to Daniel 12:4 co
GRECIA] RV 'Greece.' The interests of the Jews would have to be maintained against the Persian and Greek powers in succession. Antiochus III was succeeded by Seleucus IV (Philopator), who sent his ch...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 10 Chapter s 10, 11 and 12 tell us about Daniel’s last dream. V1 In the third year that king Cyrus ruled Persia, God gave a message to...
THEN SAID HE. — The meaning of this verse is obscure. Apparently the person who is speaking refers back to what he had said (Daniel 10:12); and from the question _“_Knowest thou?” &c., we are to infer...
וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר הֲ יָדַ֨עְתָּ֙ לָמָּה ־בָּ֣אתִי א
THE VISION BY THE RIVER Daniel 10:1-21 This chapter gives a glimpse into the great conflict which is always in progress between heaven and hell. For three weeks the radiant Being who came to Daniel a...
The last things were revealed to Daniel in the reign of Cyrus. For three whole weeks he mourned and fasted as the result of a revelation to him of a great warfare. At the close of that period there ap...
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the (p) prince of Grecia shall come. (p) Meaning that he...
There is some little difficulty to apprehend the whole of this passage. Daniel had before described a very glorious person, at whose presence he put his face to the ground. And here it should seem, at...
The angel appears here to lead the Prophet in vain through a winding course; for he might directly and simply have told him why he had come. It was necessary to recall the Prophet to his senses, as he...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. In chapter 10 we return to the East [1]. Chapter s 10, 11 and 12 form but one prophecy; only chapter 11 closes the history of the Gentiles, and cha...
THEN SAID HE, KNOWEST THOU WHEREFORE I COME UNTO THEE?.... He had told him before, Daniel 10:12, that it was on account of his prayers, and to bring an answer to them; and particularly to inform him w...
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. Ver. 20. _Knowest thou...
_Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee?_ Or, _Thou knowest for what cause I am come_, &c. “The angel, having strengthened the prophet, presumes that he also understood the general design of his erra...
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? The serious and highly important character of the message must be borne in mind by the prophet. AND NOW WILL I RETURN TO FIGHT WITH THE PRINCE OF...
The First Part of the Angel's Message...
10-21 Whenever we enter into communion with God, it becomes us to have a due sense of the infinite distance between us and the holy God. How shall we, that are dust and ashes, speak to the Lord of gl...
KNOWEST THOU WHEREFORE I COME UNTO THEE? i.e. by what I have said already, and what I have further to tell thee upon thy prayers, which God hath accepted, and hath given me in charge to reveal to thee...
Daniel 10:20 said H559 (H8799) know H3045 (H8804) come H935 (H8804) return H7725 (H8799) fight...
.1 ‘Then he said to me, “Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia, and when I go, lo, the prince of Greece will come. But I will tell you what is in...
CONTENTS: Visions of the glory of God. The heavenly messenger detained, but comes at last to show Daniel things to come, in answer to prayer. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Daniel, Michael, Cyrus, Princes...
Daniel 10:1. _In the third year of Cyrus,_ reckoned from the time that he occupied Babylon, in which he governed as viceroy for his uncle Darius. The first year of Cyrus therefore, mentioned in Daniel...
_In the third year of Cyrus._ THE VISION ON THE BANKS OF THE HIDDEKELS The law of gradual development seems to pervade the government of God, and may be treated alike in the material and spiritual de...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 10:20 The angel declared that he would return to the fight against the PRINCE OF PERSIA, and after that against the PRINCE OF GREECE....
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXXVII.—ANGEL MINISTRIES (Chap. Daniel 10:1) In this and the two following Chapter s we have another of Daniel’s remarkable visions. It is both the last and the longest recorded, o...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 10:1 THE ANGELS OF THE NATIONS. The three chapters (10, 11; and 12.) form a section apart from the rest of Daniel. One marked peculiarity is the long and very old interpolation whi...
Now in chapter 10, In the third year of Cyrus the king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose [Babylonian or Chaldean] name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed...
Acts 12:23; Daniel 11:2; Daniel 7:6; Daniel 8:21; Daniel 8:5;...
To fight — To oppose his mischievous designs....