A little horn. Antiochus Epiphanes, a descendant of Seleucus. He grew against the south and the east, by his victories over the kings of Egypt and Armenia; and against the strength, that is, against Jerusalem and the people of God. (Challoner) --- He persecuted God's people, and set up the idol of Jupiter Olympius in the very temple. (Worthington)
Verse Daniel 8:9. _OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN_] Some think that _Antiochus Epiphanes_ is meant; but Bp. _Newton_ contends that it is the _Roman_ government that is intended; and altho...
AND OUT OF ONE OF THEM, CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN - Emblematic of new power that should spring up. Compare the notes at Daniel 7:8. This little horn sprang, up out of one of the others; it did not spri...
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...
ONE. [the] one. A LITTLE HORN. See note on Daniel 7:8, where it is already shown that this name, and these members (Daniel 8:9 and Daniel 8:23) belong to the still future time of the end. See App-90....
_out of one of them_ The history of Seleucus himself and his immediate successors is passed over: and the prophecy proceeds at once to Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), whose reign was fraught with...
Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), and his assaults upon the religion of the Jews (cf. Daniel 8:23)....
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 out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN - not...
8:9 earth]. (f-29) Or 'the beautiful.' It may be the land or the temple. see Ezekiel 20:6 ,Ezekiel 20:15 ; Daniel 11:16 ,Daniel 11:41...
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...
_Pleasant_ (RV 'glorious') _land_] Palestine....
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...
LITTLE. — Literally, _out of littleness._ (Comp. Daniel 7:8.) This is explained more fully in Daniel 8:23. The southern campaigns of Antiochus Epiphanes are related 1Ma. 1:16; for his eastern wars see...
וּ מִן ־הָ אַחַ֣ת מֵהֶ֔ם יָצָ֥א קֶֽרֶן
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 out of one of them came forth a (l) little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the (m) south, and toward the (n) east, and toward the (o) pleasant [land]. (l) Which was Antiochus Epiphanes,...
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...
Now God shews his Prophet what peculiarly concerned the welfare of his Church. For it was of very great importance to warn the Jews of the calamities which were about to oppress them. There is nothing...
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 OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN,.... Meaning not the kingdom of Titus Vespasian, as Jarchi; nor the kingdom of the Turks, as Saadiah; but the kingdom of Antiochia, as Aben Ezra and Jac...
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 pleasant [land]. Ver. 9. _And out of one of them._] Out of the post...
_And out of one of them_ Namely, out of one of the four notable horns, mentioned in the preceding verse, _came forth a little horn_ The reader will be pleased particularly to observe this, as being a...
And out of one of them came forth a little horn, sprouting in a diminutive manner, like the branches in the prongs of an antelope, WHICH WAXED EXCEEDING GREAT TOWARD THE SOUTH AND TOWARD THE EAST AND...
THE VISION ITSELF...
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...
A LITTLE HORN; the little horn was Antiochus Epiphanes, he arose out of the Seleucidae of Syria; called a little horn, 1. Because he was much less than Alexander, called a notable horn; DANIEL 8:5....
Daniel 8:9 one H259 came H3318 (H8804) little H4704 horn H7161 exceedingly H3499 great H1431 (H8799) south...
‘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...
LITTLE HORN The "little horn" here is a prophecy fulfilled in Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 175, who profaned the temple and terribly persecuted the Jews. He is not to be confounded with the "little horn...
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...
_And out of one of them came forth a little horn._ A LITTLE HORN If we would know who he is that is signified by this horn, it is necessary that we have his characteristic features and qualities exh...
_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 11:16; Daniel 11:41; Daniel 11:45; Daniel 11:21; Daniel 11:25
A little horn — This little horn was Antiochus Epiphanes. The south — Egypt where he besieged and took many places. The east — In Syria, Babylon, Armenia. The pleasant land — Judea, so called because...