Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 8:15
The meaning — A more clear discovery of those things. The appearance of a man — Probably Gabriel.
The meaning — A more clear discovery of those things. The appearance of a man — Probably Gabriel.
Verse 15. _AS THE APPEARANCE OF A MAN._] Supposed to be the _Messiah_....
AND IT CAME TO PASS ... - Daniel saw the vision, but was unable to explain it. AND SOUGHT FOR THE MEANING - Evidently by meditating on it, or endeavoring in his own mind to make it out. THERE STOOD B...
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...
MAN. a mighty man. Hebrew. _geber_. App-14. Here it is _Gabriel,_ whence his name....
Daniel seeks to know the meaning of the vision, which is imparted to him, as in Daniel 7:16 ff., by an angel. 15 THAT I _sought_ TO UNDERSTAND (it), AND, _behold_, &c. cf. Daniel 7:19. _there_ WAS ST...
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...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN I, EVEN I DANIEL, HAD SEEN THE VISION, AND SOUGHT FOR THE MEANING, THEN, BEHOLD, THERE STOOD BEFORE ME AS THE APPEARANCE OF A MAN._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
8:15 vision, (g-12) Heb. _ chazan_ , from _ chozeh_ , seer, as vers. 1,2,13,26 (second time). appearance (h-28) Heb. _ mareh_ . Strictly 'appearance,' but rendered 'vision' in vers. 16,26 (first time)...
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...
APPEARANCE OF A MAN. — From Daniel 8:16 it appears that this was the angel Gabriel. The “man’s voice” mentioned in Daniel 8:16 proceeded from Him Who alone has authority to command angels. (Comp. Dani...
וַ יְהִ֗י בִּ רְאֹתִ֛י אֲנִ֥י דָנִיֵּ֖אל אֶת
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 DELIVERANCE IS SURE Daniel 8:15-27 It does not fall within our province to go into the various fulfillments which have been assigned to the predictions of this chapter-one to the time of the Ma...
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 it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me (b) as the appearance of a man. (b) Who was Christ who in this manne...
I feel more disposed to enquire who this man was whose voice Daniel heard, than to attend to what the laboured efforts of unawakened, unregenerated men have written, in determining according to their...
Daniel again confirms his original statement. But before he descends to the interpretation, he makes a preface concerning the faithfulness and certainty of the oracle, lest the Church should hesitate...
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 IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN I, EVEN I DANIEL, HAD SEEN THE VISION,.... The whole of the preceding vision, concerning the ram, he goat, and little horn, and what were done by them; the prophet not only a...
And it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. Ver. 15. _And it came to pass, when I, e...
_When I had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning_ Here we are informed of Daniel's earnest desire to have the vision explained to him. For those that rightly know the things of God, cannot but...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
And it came to pass when I, even I, Daniel, had seen the vision and sought for the meaning, pondering over it, viewing it from every angle, THEN, BEHOLD, THERE STOOD BEFORE ME AS THE APPEARANCE OF A M...
15-27 The eternal Son of God stood before the prophet in the appearance of a man, and directed the angel Gabriel to explain the vision. Daniel's fainting and astonishment at the prospect of evils he...
Having obtained the favour of knowing something, he longed for a more clear discovery of those things; and he had his desire granted. AS THE APPEARANCE OF A MAN; either the angel Gabriel or Michael, w...
Daniel 8:15 Daniel H1840 seen H7200 (H8800) vision H2377 seeking H1245 (H8762) meaning H998 stood H5
THE ANGEL GABRIEL APPEARS TO INTERPRET THE VISION. ‘And so it was that when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it, and behold there stood before me the appearance of a...
A MAN The theophanies. (Daniel 8:15); (Daniel 10:6); (Daniel 10:10); (Daniel 10:18); ...
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 8:15 The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that the vision concerns the future of the region, which God rules for his purposes. The vision is given to prepare God’s people for the...
_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...
1 Peter 1:10; 1 Peter 1:11; Daniel 10:16; Daniel 10:5; Daniel 12:8;...