Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 7:2
The four winds — Probably by the four winds of the great sea is signified commotions of contrary nations, striving together by wars, and producing these four beasts successively.
The four winds — Probably by the four winds of the great sea is signified commotions of contrary nations, striving together by wars, and producing these four beasts successively.
Verse Daniel 7:2. _THE FOUR WINDS OF THE HEAVEN STROVE UPON THE GREAT SEA_] The idea of _strife_ is taken here from the effects that must be produced, were the east, the west, the north, and the sout...
DANIEL SPAKE AND SAID - That is, he spake and said in the manner intimated in the previous verse. It was by a record made at the time, and thus he might be said to speak to his own generation and to a...
II. THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF DANIEL CHAPTER 7 The night visions of Daniel _ 1. The night vision of the three beasts (Daniel 7:1)_ 2. The night vision of the fourth beast (Daniel 7:7) 3. The judgmen...
DANIEL 7. THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS. From this point onwards the Book becomes purely apocalyptic. The vision of the four beasts is parallel to the vision of the image in Daniel 2. The beasts rise...
SPAKE AND SAID. The vision is related in words. I SAW. I was looking. BY. during. THE FOUR WINDS. All blowing at the same time and producing the one result described in verses: Daniel 7:3. WINDS....
_Daniel_ ANSWERED _and said, I saw_ properly, _I was seeing_(or _beholding_), as Daniel 4:10; Daniel 4:13: so Daniel 7:4; Daniel 7:6;...
BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS—STROVE, &C.— What was revealed to Nebuchadnezzar concerning the four great empires of the world was again revealed to Daniel, with some additions, about forty-eight years after....
Part ThreeDaniel's ForeknowledgeChapter s 7-12 CHAPTER SEVEN I. BEASTS AND THE BEAUTYDaniel 7:1-28 a. MALEVOLENT BEAST TEXT: Daniel 7:1-8 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel h...
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS - answering to the "four beasts." Thus what is impli...
THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS In the first year of Belshazzar Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea (Daniel 7:1). The first is like a lion, with eagle's wings (Daniel 7:4), the seco...
STROVE] RV 'brake forth.' The great sea] the Mediterranean. 3. The imagery recalls the figures, so often found on Babylonian bas-reliefs, of winged lions and other monsters. The sea symbolises the co...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 7 V1 It was the first year that king Belshazzar ruled Babylon. Daniel had a dream. He saw pictures in his head as he lay on his bed. An...
THE GREAT SEA. — In general (_e.g.,_ Joshua 15:47), these words imply the Mediterranean. Such cannot be the meaning here, so that according to Daniel 7:17 we are justified in explaining the “sea” to m...
עָנֵ֤ה דָנִיֵּאל֙ וְ אָמַ֔ר חָזֵ֥ה הֲוֵ֛ית בּ
VISION OF THE FOUR WILD BEASTS WE now enter upon the second division of the Book of Daniel-the apocalyptic. It is unquestionably inferior to the first part in grandeur and importance as a whole, but i...
GOD'S EVERLASTING DOMINION Daniel 7:1-14 This chapter enumerates the succession of world-empires and rulers which bridge the gulf of centuries from the Captivity to the Second Advent. The lion repres...
We come now to the second half of the Book, which consists of visions, with their interpretations, granted to Daniel through three reigns. During the reign of Belshazzar two visions were granted to hi...
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon (b) the great sea. (b) Which signified that there wold be horrible troubles and afflictions i...
_Winds, to imply the tumults occasioned by fresh kingdoms (Worthington) in the world. (Theod.)_...
There can be no doubt, but that what is here described under the figure and similitude of beasts, relates to kingdoms of the earth. And explaining these prophecies by the events which have followed, i...
_DANIEL’S VISION_ ‘My vision by night.’ Daniel 7:2 I. FORTY YEARS AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM, THE PROPHET BEHOLDS IN VISION THE SAME SERIES OF KINGDOMS.—The king saw a graphic representation of t...
He repeats again, _He saw in his vision during the night_. Again, I say, Daniel affirms that he brought forward nothing but what God had authoritatively delivered to him. For we know that in the Churc...
We come now to the communications made to Daniel himself, which contain not merely general principles, but details relative to God's people, and the Gentiles who oppressed them -historical details, th...
DANIEL SPAKE AND SAID, I SAW IN MY VISION BY NIGHT,.... He declared he had had a vision by night, and this was the substance of it: AND, BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS OF THE HEAVEN STROVE UPON THE GREAT SEA...
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. Ver. 2. _Daniel spake and said._] His writing is called his speaking, to teach...
_Behold, the four winds strove upon the great sea_ This denotes those commotions in the world, and that troublesome state of affairs, out of which empires and kingdoms commonly take their rise. _And f...
THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS...
Daniel spake and said, in introducing his narration of the strange experience which befell him, I SAW IN MY VISION BY NIGHT, AND, BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS OF THE HEAVEN, from the four main points of the...
1-8 This vision contains the same prophetic representations with Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The great sea agitated by the winds, represented the earth and the dwellers on it troubled by ambitious prince...
Because Daniel doth not expound what is meant by WINDS, expositors think there is room left for every one's conjecture; wherein this seems most likely, that by the four winds of the great sea is signi...
Daniel 7:2 Daniel H1841 spoke H6032 (H8750) saying H560 (H8750) saw H2370 (H8751) H1934 ...
‘Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night and behold, the four winds of the heaven broke on the great sea. And four wild beasts came up from the sea, different one from another. The first wa...
GREAT SEA The "sea" in Scripture imagery stands for the populace, the mere unorganized mass of mankind (Matthew 13:47); (Revelation 13:1)....
Daniel 7:1 The principles which underlie this prophecy are at once profoundly suggestive and exceedingly important. I. Foremost among them we find the terribly significant truth that earthly power i...
CONTENTS: The beast vision of Daniel, forecasting the four world empires and the final heading up under anti-Christ. Vision of Christ coming in glory. Interpretation of the beast vision. CHARACTERS:...
Daniel 7:1. _In the first year of Belshazzar._ The book of Daniel is divided into two parts; the first six Chapter s being historic, and the latter prophetic. This dream of Daniel's has a connection w...
_I saw in my vision by night._ MODES OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD Since the days of the apostles, the intercourse between Heaven and earth has been maintained through the ordinary channels. God speaks t...
DANIEL 7:1 The Visions of Daniel. These chapters describe Daniel’s apocalyptic visions, which reassure God’s people that, in spite of exile and persecution, God is still in control of history and will...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXII.—THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS (Chap. Daniel 7:1) We now come to the second and principal part of the Book of Daniel, the prophetical portion, the narratives it contains being...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 7:1 THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS. This chapter begins the second section of the book. All before this has been narrative; visions are introduced into the narrative, but they were...
Now at this point we come to, more or less, the end of the historic part of the book of Daniel. And beginning with chapter 7, we are now gonna go back and deal with visions that Daniel had during prev...
Revelation 17:15; Revelation 7:1...