Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 8:11
The prince — Not only against the high — priest, but against God himself. Was cast down — He took away the use of the temple as to the holy service and sacrifices.
The prince — Not only against the high — priest, but against God himself. Was cast down — He took away the use of the temple as to the holy service and sacrifices.
Verse Daniel 8:11. _EVEN TO THE PRINCE OF THE HOST_] They seemed, in this case, to fight against God himself. _THE DAILY_ SACRIFICE _WAS TAKEN AWAY_] By the destruction of the city and temple; and ha...
YEA, HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF EVEN TO THE PRINCE OF THE HOST - Grotius, Ephraem the Syrian, and others, understand this of Onias the high priest, as the chief officer of the holy people. Lengerke supposes...
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...
TO. against. THE PRINCE OF THE HOST. God Himself, the Creator and Ruler of the starry host, verses Daniel 10:11 are "difficult" only if Antiochus Epiphanes is assumed to fulfil them. There is no diff...
Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), and his assaults upon the religion of the Jews (cf. Daniel 8:23)....
AND EVEN UNTO _the prince of the host_ IT MAGNIFIED ITSELF] it not only mounted to the stars, but in impious defiance it _shewed greatness_(Daniel 8:4_; Daniel 8:25_), i.e. continued its acts of prid...
OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN, &C.— There are two ways of expounding this prophesy of the _little horn;_ either by understanding it with the generality of interpreters, both Jewish and C...
b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the...
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. YEA, HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF ... TO THE PRINCE OF...
8:11 he (g-2) There is here a change of gender in the original, making the little horn more personal....
THE PRINCE OF THE HOST] God. And by him, etc.] RV 'And it took away from him' (God) 'the continual burnt offering': see Daniel 11:31; Daniel 1Ma 1:45, 1Ma 1:59. The place of his sanctuary was cast 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...
PRINCE OF THE HOST — _i.e._, Jehovah Himself. (Comp. Daniel 8:25; Daniel 11:36.) THE DAILY — _i.e.,_ everything permanent in the worship of God, such as sacrifices, &c. (See Note on Leviticus 6:13.) O...
וְ עַ֥ד שַֽׂר ־הַ צָּבָ֖א הִגְדִּ֑יל וּ
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...
Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the (q) prince of the host, and by him the (r) daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. (q) That is, God, who governs and ma...
_Strength; the God of armies, (Haydock) over whom Epiphanes seemed to triumph._...
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...
Daniel announces something still more atrocious here, namely, the exaltation of the little horn against God. Some take “the prince of the army” for the high priest, as princes are sometimes called כוה...
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...
YEA, HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF EVEN TO THE PRINCE HOST,.... Either the high priest Onias, whom he disposed of his office, and put Jason a wicked man into it; or Judas Maccabeus, the prince of the Jewish na...
Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. Ver. 11. _Yea, he magnified himself._] He ex...
_And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven_ By the _host of heaven_, seems to be here meant the Jewish priesthood, so called from their continual attendance on God's service in the temple, as the...
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, placing himself on a level with the most high God, with the King of kings and the Lord of lords, AND BY HIM THE DAILY SACRIFICE WAS TAKEN AWAY...
THE VISION ITSELF...
TO: Or, against BY HIM: Or, from him...
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...
EVEN TO THE PRINCE OF THE HOST; not only against the high priest Onias, whom he put from his priesthood, and sold the high priesthood, /APC 2MAC 4, but against God himself, which showed his daring ins...
Daniel 8:11 exalted H1431 (H8689) Prince H8269 host H6635 daily H8548 away H7311 (H8717) (H8675)...
‘Yes it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host, and it took away from him what is done continually (religious worship including the offerings and sacrifices), and the place of his sanctuary...
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 8:11 The PRINCE OF THE HOST probably refers to God, because of the similar expression “Prince of princes” in v. Daniel 8:25. the p
_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...
2 Chronicles 32:15; 2 Kings 19:22; 2 Kings 19:23; 2 Thessalonians 2:4;...