Even unto, or against the strength of heaven. So are here called the army of the Jews, the people of God, (Challoner) and particularly the teachers. Many priests gave way to idolatry. (1 Machabees i. 48. and 2 Machabees iv. 14.) (Calmet)
Verse Daniel 8:10. _THE HOST OF HEAVEN_] The _Jewish hierarchy_. The _stars_, the _priests_ and _Levites_. The _powers_ or _host of heaven_ are probably intended by our Lord, Matthew 24:29, to signify...
AND IT WAXED GREAT - It became very powerful. This was eminently true of Antiochus, after having subdued Egypt, etc. EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN - Margin, against. The Hebrew word (עד _‛__ad_) means “t...
CHAPTER 8 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT _ 1. The vision (Daniel 8:1)_ 2. The interpretation of the vision (Daniel 8:15) Daniel 8:1. Beginning with this chapter to the end of the book prophecy will lead us...
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 we...
EVEN TO. as far as. HOST. stars. Compare Revelation 12:4. OF THE HOST AND OF THE STARS. Figure of speech _Hendiadys_ (App-6), for emphasis. the starry host. STAMPED UPON THEM. trampled them under fo...
Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), and his assaults upon the religion of the Jews (cf. Daniel 8:23)....
The horn -waxed great," in the vision, not only over the surface of the earth (Daniel 8:9); it even towered up to heaven, struck and hurled down to the earth some of the stars, and then trampled contu...
OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN, &C.— There are two ways of expounding this prophesy of the _little horn;_ either by understanding it with the generality of interpreters, both Jewish and C...
b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the...
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. IT WAXED GREAT, EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN - explained , "He...
THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT In the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa (Daniel 8:1). He sees a two-homed ram which behaves ag...
THE HOST OF HEAVEN] the stars, symbolising in Daniel the righteous Israelites (Daniel 12:3), some of whom were slain by Antiochus: see Daniel 8:24; Daniel 1Ma 1:24, 1Ma 1:30, 1Ma 1:57, 1Ma 1:63)....
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 8 V1 In the third year that King Belshazzar ruled Babylon, I, Daniel, had another dream. V2 In my dream, I saw myself in the castle at...
THE HOST OF HEAVEN. — Probably meaning the stars, as Jeremiah 33:22, but in a metaphorical sense indicating the people of Israel. (Comp. Exodus 7:4; Numbers 24:17.) The actions of Antiochus, predicted...
וַ תִּגְדַּ֖ל עַד ־צְבָ֣א הַ שָּׁמָ֑יִם וַ
THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the date, since it is almost exclusively occupied with t...
GOD'S SANCTUARY DISHONORED Daniel 8:1-14 Shushan was the lily palace. There, by the river Ulai, the prophet beheld in vision the attack which would subsequently be made on the Medo-Persian kingdom by...
Two years later, in the third year of king Belshazzar's reign, another vision came to Daniel. It was of a ram with two horns pushing westward, northward, and southward. As Daniel watched, a he goat at...
And it waxed great, [even] to the (p) host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. (p) Antiochus raged against the elect of God, and trea...
The principal feature of this history, in the battle of rams and he-goats, (meaning the kings of the earth), is what is said of this creature magnifying himself against the Prince of the host, even Je...
Here Daniel continues the vision which he had received. We have already shewn he object of the Almighty to be the preparation of the faithful to bear serious calamities, because nothing new or unexpec...
Chapter 8 gives details of that which takes place from another side of Judea, with reference to the Jews. The two empires of Persia and Greece, or of the East, which succeeded that of Babylon under wh...
AND IT WAXED GREAT, EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN,.... The people of the Jews, the army of the living God, the church militant, among whom were many of the citizens of heaven, whose names are written the...
And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Ver. 10. _And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven._...
_And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven_ By the _host of heaven_, seems to be here meant the Jewish priesthood, so called from their continual attendance on God's service in the temple, as the...
THE VISION ITSELF...
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven, to the congregation of the Lord's people, for the Jews were at that time representatives of the Lord's Church on earth; AND IT CAST DOWN SOME OF THE HOS...
TO THE HOST: Or, against the host...
1-14 God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. Could we foresee the changes that shall be when we are gone, we should...
EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN, i.e. the church of God militant, who worship the God of heaven, who are citizens of heaven, whose names are written in heaven; and among these chiefly the priests, and nobl...
Daniel 8:10 grew H1431 (H8799) host H6635 heaven H8064 down H5307 (H8686) host H6635 stars H3556 ground...
‘And out of one of them came a horn from smallness which grew exceedingly great towards the south, and towards the east and towards the beauty (the desirable). And it grew great even to the host of he...
AND IT WAXED GREAT This passage (Daniel 8:10) is confessedly the most difficult in prophecy, a difficulty increased by the present state of the text. Historically this was fulfilled in and by Antioch...
CONTENTS: The ram and rough goat vision, and its interpretation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Gabriel, Daniel, Belshazzar, anti-Christ. CONCLUSION: Out from the kingdoms of the last days a king of fierc...
Daniel 8:2. _At Shushan in the palace._ Some think that Daniel was now ambassador at the Persian court. The _Ulai_ or Eulæus, is a great and navigable river which watered Ecbatana, capital of Media, a...
_Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns._ THE WORLD-POWERS AND ISRAEL A glance at the particulars in this vision is enough to satisfy...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:1 In this next vision, Daniel sees what is to come of the Medo-Persian Empire, Alexander the Great’s empire, and the Hellenistic empires that succeed it. The upheavals to come...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:9 A LITTLE HORN grows out of one of the four horns and expands his realm. Most scholars identify this little horn as Antiochus IV Epiphanes (ruled 175–164 B.C.). Antiochus IV t...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXVIII.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, OR THE SYRIAN LITTLE HORN (Chap. Daniel 8:1) This chapter presents to us another vision of Daniel vouchsafed to him in the reign of Belshazzar, but two...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 8:1 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This chapter marks the change from Aramaic to_ _Hebrew. The character of the chapter is like that which immediately precedes it. It consists, like it, o...
Now two years later: In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even as unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first (Daniel 8:1). A similar type...
Daniel 11:28; Daniel 11:30; Daniel 11:33; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 8:24;...
The host of heaven — The church of God militant, who worship the God of heaven, who are citizens of heaven, whose names are written in heaven; and among these the priests, and champions, who were as s...