Brake his two horns: Artaxerxes Mnemon, by aiding Cyrus against him and then Darius Codomanus; these are the two horns, or the Medes and Persians. Cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him; he overthrew him utterly, that he could never rise again. This was at the Granicus, Issus, and Arbela.
Verse Daniel 8:7. _AND BRAKE HIS TWO HORNS_] Subdued Persia and Media; sacked and burnt the royal city of _Persepolis_, the capital of the Persian empire, and, even in its _ruins_, one of the wonders...
AND I SAW HIM, COME CLOSE UNTO THE RAM - The ram standing on the banks of the Ulai, and in the very heart of the empire. This representation is designed undoubtedly to denote that the Grecian power wo...
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...
WAS MOVED WITH CHOLER. moved himself, or strove violently with. CHOLER. bile. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for anger or wrath, which was supposed to be due to excess of bile....
A he-goat, with a conspicuous horn between its eyes, appearing from the west, attacked the ram, and beat it down to the ground. The empire of the Greeks; the horn (cf. Daniel 8:21) being Alexander the...
The collapse of the Persian power before Alexander, especially in the two great defeats of Issus and Arbela. _was moved with choler_ an effective rendering: so Daniel 11:11. The Heb. is lit. _embitte...
HE CAME TO THE RAM, &C.— In these two verses we have an account of the Grecians overthrowing the Persian empire. The ram had before, Daniel 8:4 _pushed westward;_ and the Persians, in the reign of Dar...
CHAPTER EIGHT II. LOCKING HORNSDaniel 8:1-27 a. THE GOAT AND THE RAM TEXT: Daniel 8:1-8 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me, Daniel, after...
And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him dow...
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 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...
וּ רְאִיתִ֞יו מַגִּ֣יעַ ׀ אֵ֣צֶל הָ אַ֗יִל 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 I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and (h) smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him...
_Hand. He routed all the forces of his enemy (Haydock) at the Granicus, at Issus; and at Gaugamela, (Calmet) or Arbela, Darius escaped, but was slain by his own servants. (Haydock) --- The clemency of...
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 God shews to his Prophet the victory of Alexander, by which he subdued almost the whole east. Although he encountered many nations in battle, and especially the Indians, yet the name of the Persi...
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 I SAW HIM COME CLOSE UNTO THE RAM,.... Though the distance between Greece and Persia was very great, and many rivers and mountains in the way, which seemed impassable; Alexander got over them all,...
_And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him dow...
_And he came to the ram that had two horns_, &c. “The ram had before _pushed westward_, and the Persians, in the reign of Darius Hystaspes and Xerxes, had poured down with great armies into Greece; bu...
And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, with sudden, explosive anger, AND SMOTE THE RAM, in a fierce overthrow, AND BRAKE HIS TWO HORNS; AND THERE WAS NO POWER...
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...
Daniel 8:7 saw H7200 (H8804) confronting H5060 (H8688) H681 ram H352 rage H4843 (H8698) attacked...
‘And he came to the ram which had two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was full of rage against him, a...
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 8:7 HE WAS ENRAGED. Alexander’s father was king of Macedonia and brought all of Greece under his control by 336 B.C. Alexander was only 20 when his father was murdered, but he co...
_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 11:11; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 8:4; Joshua 8:20; Leviticus 26:37...