Fasting and feasting are very inconsistent; Daniel at other times lived magnificently, according to the dignity of his place, he had the best bread, flesh, wine, and anointing after the manner of the East, all which he laid aside, that by austerity he might afflict his body, and quicken his soul suitably to the time of Jacob's trouble and to a true fasting frame.
Verse Daniel 10:3. _I ATE NO PLEASANT BREAD_] This fast was rather a general _abstinence_; living all the while on _coarse_ and _unsavoury food_; drinking nothing but _water_; not using the _bath_, an...
I ATE NO PLEASANT BREAD - Margin, “bread of desires.” So the Hebrew. The meaning is, that he abstained from ordinary food, and partook of that only which was coarse and disagreeable. NEITHER CAME FLES...
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...
PLEASANT BREAD. bread of desires: i.e. pleasant food. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. THREE WHOLE WEEKS. three sevens of days, as in verses: Daniel 10:2; Daniel 10:13. _ CONFRONTING ME THREE SEVENS...
_pleasant bread_ lit. _bread of desirablenesses_(Daniel 9:23). Daniel did not fast absolutely; he only abstained from -pleasant" food. _Flesh_and _wine_would, in the East, not be indulged in except at...
HISTORY OF THE SELEUCIDAE AND PTOLEMIES. REIGN OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, AND HIS TREATMENT OF THE JEWS. ADVENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD These three Chapter s form a whole, describing a vision of Daniel in...
CHAPTER TEN IV. ANGELIC ASSISTANCEDaniel 10:1-21 a. ANGELIC APPEARANCE TEXT: Daniel 10:1-9 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belte...
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. I ATE NO PLEASANT BREAD - "unleavened bread, even the b...
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
A MIGHTY KING] Alexander the Great (333-322 b.c.). 4. The partition of Alexander's empire is described: see chapter Daniel 8:8; Daniel 8:22. 5-20. Along with the notes on these vv. the table of Syria...
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...
PLEASANT BREAD — _i.e.,_ delicate food. Abstaining from this as well as from the use of oil (comp. 2 Samuel 12:20; Amos 6:6) were the outward signs of Daniel’s grief....
לֶ֣חֶם חֲמֻדֹ֞ות לֹ֣א אָכַ֗לְתִּי וּ בָשָׂ֥ר...
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...
It appears from the date of this vision, that it was about two years after the former. The Lord was about to do great things for his Church, and therefore, was thus preparing the minds both of Prophet...
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...
I ATE NO PLEASANT BREAD,.... Or, "bread of desires" d; such as was made of the finest of the wheat, and was eaten in the courts of princes where Daniel was: according to some Jewish Rabbins in Ben Mel...
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. Ver. 3. _I ate no pleasant bread._] Bread he ate, for _ani...
_I Daniel was mourning_ The reason of Daniel's fasting and mourning might be, either because many of the Jews, through slothfulness and indifference, still remained in the land of their captivity, tho...
I ate no pleasant bread, partaking only of the unleavened bread of affliction, Deuteronomy 16:3, NEITHER CAME FLESH NOR WINE IN MY MOUTH, thus discarding all food otherwise used on festival days, NEIT...
THE BEGINNING OF THE VISION...
PLEASANT BREAD: _ Heb._ bread of desires...
Daniel 10:3 ate H398 (H8804) pleasant H2532 food H3899 meat H1320 wine H3196 came H935 (H8804) mouth...
‘In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, nor did flesh or wine come in my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were fulfilled.' We are...
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...
_I ate not pleasant bread._ INTENSE RELIGION About a hundred years ago, a man of God thus wrote in his diary: “I was enabled to persevere in prayer till I saw so much need of Divine help, that I kne...
_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 10:1 Conflicts on earth reflect conflicts in the heavens, and this will continue to the end, when God will ultimately win the battle. ⇐...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 10:2 As a sign of identification with the trials of his brothers and sisters in Judah, Daniel was in MOURNING for THREE WEEKS. He went without MEAT OR WINE and
_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...
1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Samuel 19:24; Amos 5:11; Daniel 11:8; Daniel 6: