Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 10:2
Was mourning — Because he foresaw the many calamities that would befall the Jews for their sins, especially for destroying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel.
Was mourning — Because he foresaw the many calamities that would befall the Jews for their sins, especially for destroying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel.
Verse Daniel 10:2. _I-WAS MOURNING THREE FULL WEEKS._] The weeks are most probably dated from the time of the termination of the last vision. _Calmet_ proves this by several reasons....
IN THOSE DAYS I DANIEL WAS MOURNING - I was afflicting myself; that is, he had set apart this time as an extraordinary fast. He was sad and troubled. He does not say on what account he was thus troubl...
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...
THREE FULL WEEKS. three sevens of days. See next verse and Daniel 10:13, in contrast with Daniel 9:24; Daniel 9:25. Compare this humiliation with that of Danie
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...
_was mourning_ or, _continued mourning_. The motive of Daniel's mourning is not stated; but it may be inferred from Daniel 10:12 (cf. Daniel 9:3) to have been grief for his people's sin (cf. Ezra 10:6...
I DANIEL WAS MOURNING THREE FULL WEEKS— Various causes are assigned for this mourning of the prophet. Usher thinks that it was on account of the interruption given by the Samaritans to the rebuilding...
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...
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I DANIEL WAS MOURNING - i:e., afflicting myself by fasting from "pleasant bread, flesh, and wine" (), as a sign of sorrow, not for its own sake...
10:2 weeks. (b-10) Lit. 'weeks of days.'...
MANY] The resurrection contemplated is not universal, though it will include both the righteous and the wicked. YET THREE KINGS] in succession to Cyrus who is already reigning (Daniel 10:1). The three...
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
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...
בַּ † יָּמִ֖ים הָ הֵ֑ם אֲנִ֤י דָֽנִיֵּאל֙...
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...
Weeks. Marsham says twenty-one years. But it means only so many days. He began to mourn on the third of Nisan, and continued fasting (verse 4) it seems even on the sabbaths, and on the feast of Passov...
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...
We gather from this passage why the angel appeared to the Prophet in the third year of Cyrus. He says, _he was then in the greatest sorrow; _and what was the cause of it? At that period we know an int...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS I DANIEL WAS MOURNING,.... Either on account of what had been revealed to him in the last vision or prophecy of the seventy weeks; by which it appeared what wickedness the people of the...
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. Ver. 2. _In those days I Daniel was mourning._] Though a great man still, and in great account, yet not now so great at court as to hinder and de...
_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...
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks, very likely on account of the conditions in the land of his fathers, where the small handful of Jews were trying, under peculiar difficulties, t...
THE BEGINNING OF THE VISION...
FULL WEEKS: _ Heb._ weeks of days...
There are several causes of Daniel's mourning. 1. Because the Jews had liberty to go out of captivity, yet many of them staid still in Babylon. 2. Because when they were building the temple, walls,...
Daniel 10:2 days H3117 Daniel H1840 mourning H56 (H8693) three H7969 full H3117 weeks H7620 I Daniel -...
‘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...
_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...
Daniel 9:24; Ezra 9:4; Ezra 9:5; Isaiah 66:10; James 4:9;...