Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 8:1
After that — In the other vision he speaks o[ all the four monarchies; here only of the three first; this vision being a comment upon the first.
After that — In the other vision he speaks o[ all the four monarchies; here only of the three first; this vision being a comment upon the first.
CHAPTER VIII _This chapter contains Daniel's vision of the ram and he-goat_, 1-14; _referring, as explained by the angel, to the Persian and_ _Grecian monarchies_, 15-26. _The_ little horn _menti...
IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING BELSHAZZAR - In regard to Belshazzar, see Intro. to Daniel 5 Section II. A VISION APPEARED UNTO ME - This vision appears to have occurred to him when awake, or i...
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...
IN THE THIRD YEAR: 426 B.C. (see App-50). Daniel being eighty-seven. A VISION. Like the vision in Daniel 7, this also is complete in itself, but is necessary to contribute its proof of the unity of th...
_In the third year_&c. See the note on Daniel 7:1. _at the first_ properly, AT THE BEGINNING (Genesis 13:3; Genesis 41:21; Genesis 43:18
IN THE THIRD YEAR OF—KING BELSHAZZAR— This vision was about five hundred and fifty-three years before Christ. From chap. Daniel 2:4 to this chapter, the prophesies are written in Chaldee. As they grea...
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...
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. With this chapter the Hebrew part of the book begin...
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...
VIII (1) THE HEBREW LANGUAGE IS HERE RESUMED. The visions recorded in the remaining portion of the book having no connection with Babylon, the Chaldee dialect is dropped. THIRD YEAR. — Most probably,...
בִּ שְׁנַ֣ת שָׁלֹ֔ושׁ לְ מַלְכ֖וּת בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֣ר...
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...
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, [even unto] me Daniel, (a) after that which appeared unto me at the first. (a) After the general vision, he comes to certa...
_Beginning. This vision was to explain what he had seen Chap. vii. respecting the four monarchies. The conflict of the Persians with Alexander, after two hundred years and twenty years, is here descri...
CONTENTS The Prophet is here favoured with more visions of God. An angel interprets the vision to Daniel. special allusions in the vision to the Church....
The third year of the reign of Belshazzar must have been before what is related of his death in the fifth Chapter; only this vision of Daniel is not placed in that order. The Prophet had his mind so i...
Here Daniel relates another vision, differing from the former as a part from the whole. For God wished to show him first what various changes should happen before Christ’s advent. The second redemptio...
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...
IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING BELSHAZZAR,.... Which some say t was the last year of his reign; but, according to Ptolemy's canon, he reigned seventeen years; and so says Josephus u; however,...
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, [even unto] me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. Ver. 1. _In the third year of the reign of king Bel...
_In the third year of King Belshazzar_ Daniel's former vision of the four great beasts, representing the four great empires of the world, took place in the first year of Belshazzar; now, in the third...
THE VISION ITSELF...
In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, two years after Daniel had had the vision of the four monarchies, A VISION APPEARED UNTO ME, even unto me, DANIEL, AFTER THAT WHICH APPEARED UNTO ME...
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 CHAPTER 8 Daniel's vision of the ram and he goat, DANIEL 8:1. The days of suspension of the daily sacrifice, and desolation of the sanctuary, DANIEL 8:13,14. Gabriel comforteth Daniel, and inte...
Daniel 8:1 third H7969 year H8141 reign H4438 King H4428 Belshazzar H1112 vision H2377 appeared H7200 (H8738) after...
COMMENCEMENT OF DANIEL'S VISION. ‘In the third year of the king Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, even to me Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.' Daniel draws our attention to th...
VISION The eighth chapter gives details concerning the second and third world-kingdoms: the silver and brass kingdoms of Daniel 2, the bear and leopard kingdoms of Daniel 7, namely, the Medo-Persian...
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...
_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 7:1; Daniel 10:2; Daniel 10:7; Daniel 11:4; Daniel 7:15;...