Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 8:26
Shut thou up — Lay it up in thy heart. For many days — Three hundred years after this; long after Daniel's days.
Shut thou up — Lay it up in thy heart. For many days — Three hundred years after this; long after Daniel's days.
Verse Daniel 8:26. _THE VISION OF THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WHICH WAS_ _TOLD IS TRUE_] That mentioned in Daniel 8:14. _FOR IT_ SHALL BE _FOR MANY DAYS._] Not less than _two thousand three_ _hundred...
AND THE VISION OF THE EVENING AND THE MORNING - That is, of the two thousand three hundred days. See Daniel 8:14, and the margin on that verse. The meaning here is, “the vision pertaining to that succ...
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...
THE EVENING AND THE MORNING. See note on "days" (App-90). These are interpreted as being 2,800 days. No one may interpret the interpretation and say they are "years". IS TRUE. it [is] truth. SHUT TH...
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...
The explanation of the vision....
_the vision of the evenings and mornings_(Daniel 8:14) _which_ HATH BEEN _told_, is _true_ a solemn asseveration of the truth of what has been told (cf. Daniel 10:1; Daniel 11:2;...
SHUT THOU UP THE VISION, &C.— This _shutting up of the vision_ implies, that it should not be understood for some time. The vision being for _many days,_ must necessarily infer a longer term than the...
c. GRIEVOUS TIMES AND RETRIBUTION TEXT: Daniel 8:18-27 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. 19 And he...
And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. SHUT THOU UP THE VISION - implying the vision was not to be u...
8:26 vision, (g-21) Heb. _ chazan_ , from _ chozeh_ , seer, as vers. 1,2,13,26 (second time). vision (h-3) Heb. _ mareh_ . Strictly 'appearance,' but rendered 'vision' in vers. 16,26 (first time), and...
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...
EVENING.. MORNING] RV 'evenings.. mornings.'. The reference is to Daniel 8:14. WHEREFORE] RV 'but.' _Shall he_ for many days] RV 'belongeth to many days to come,' to a future remote from Daniel's tim...
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...
The concluding words of the angel are intended to comfort the Jewish Church in the days of her persecution. They teach her that God has foreseen her affliction, that it comes from Him in His love, and...
וּ מַרְאֵ֨ה הָ עֶ֧רֶב וְ הַ בֹּ֛קֶר
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 the vision of the (p) evening and the morning which was told [is] true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it [shall be] for many days. (p) Read (Daniel 8:14)....
_Morning of this day, or of what shall happen in certain full days. (ver. 14.) --- Seal. When the predictions were to take place, soon they were dated and published. (Calmet) --- This will remain obsc...
Who this fierce king points at, or what awful indignation is to take place at the time, when the latter kingdom shall come, and the transgressions are come to the full; I presume not to say. But one s...
The angel again confirms the assertion that no part of this vision was shewn to the Prophet in vain, because not even the slightest portion of it should fail of its effect. The necessity of this metho...
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 THE VISION OF THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WHICH WAS TOLD IS TRUE,.... That is, of the 2300 evenings and mornings, or natural days; unto which time the daily sacrifice was to cease, and the sanctua...
And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told [is] true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it [shall be] for many days. Ver. 26. _And the vision of the evening._] See Daniel 8:14....
_And the vision of the evening and the morning, &c., is true_ The vision of the 2300 evenings and mornings, mentioned Daniel 8:13, is certain. The angel here tells him, that these calamities would cer...
And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told, concerning the length of the time of the affliction, IS TRUE; WHEREFORE SHUT THOU UP THE VISION, to preserve it for such later day, FOR IT...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
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...
THE VISION IS TRUE, i.e. of the two thousand three hundred days before, DANIEL 8:14. This exposition of it is true, plain, and certain. and therefore to be believed and seriously minded. Shut thou up...
Daniel 8:26 vision H4758 evenings H6153 mornings H1242 told H559 (H8738) true H571 up H5640 (H8798) vision...
‘And the vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true. But shut up the vision for it belongs to many days.' Compare Daniel 8:14. The spoken vision of the evenings and the mornings w...
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...
Daniel 10:1; Daniel 10:14; Daniel 12:4; Daniel 12:9; Daniel 10:1;...