Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 8:3
Two horns — The kingdom of Media and Persia. And the higher — The kingdom of Persia which rose last, in Cyrus, became more eminent than that of the Medes.
Two horns — The kingdom of Media and Persia. And the higher — The kingdom of Persia which rose last, in Cyrus, became more eminent than that of the Medes.
Verse Daniel 8:3. _A RAM WHICH HAD_ TWO _HORNS_] In the former vision there were _four beasts_, pointing out _four empires_; in this we have but _two_, as only _two empires_ are concerned here, viz.,...
THEN I LIFTED UP MINE EYES AND SAW - And saw in vision, or there seemed to be before me. THERE STOOD BEFORE THE RIVER - On the bank of the river. A RAM WHICH HAD TWO HORNS - There can be no error in...
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...
SAW. looked. A RAM. In Daniel 8:20 this is interpreted of Persia.. ram is always the symbol of Persia. Found to-day on ancient Persian coins. The king wore. ram's head of gold, and rams' heads are to...
AND _I lifted up my eyes_ in the vision: cf. Daniel 10:5; Genesis 31:10; Zechariah 1:18; Zechariah 2:1;...
A RAM WHICH HAD TWO HORNS— In the former vision there appeared _four_ beasts, because there _four_ empires were represented; but here _two_ only, because here we have a representation of what was tran...
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...
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last....
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...
A RAM — _i.e.,_ a single ram. The ram was standing before the river, or eastward of it, and represented the Medo-Persian empire (Daniel 8:20). The two horns, like the two breasts and arms of the image...
וָ אֶשָּׂ֤א עֵינַי֙ וָ אֶרְאֶ֔ה וְ הִנֵּ֣ה
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...
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a (c) ram which had [two] horns: and the [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] (d) higher than the other, and the higher...
A ram. The empire of the Medes and Persians. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- Cyrus, the founder, was allied to both. --- Higher, denoting the Persians; or Hystaspes, and his posterity, the second branch...
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...
He next subjoins, _And behold a ram, stood at the bank of the river, and it had horns _He now compares the empire of Persia and Media to a ram. It ought not to seem absurd that God proposed to his ser...
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...
THEN I LIFTED UP MINE EYES,.... To see what was to be seen in this place, where he in the vision was brought; he lifted up the eyes of his understanding, being enlightened by the vision of prophecy, a...
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had [two] horns: and the [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] higher than the other, and the higher came up...
_I saw, and behold, a ram with two horns_ In the former vision there appeared _four_ beasts, because there _four_ empires were represented; but in this _two_ only, because here we have a representatio...
Then I lifted up mine eyes and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river, probably to the east of it, A RAM, not in a flock, but alone, WHICH HAD TWO HORNS; AND THE TWO HORNS WERE HIGH, both of t...
THE VISION ITSELF...
THE OTHER: _ Heb._ the second...
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...
WHICH HAD TWO HORNS; by which is meant the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, as it is in DANIEL 8:20, where it is so interpreted. Before he was called a BEAR, and here a RAM, both noting the same thi...
Daniel 8:3 lifted H5375 (H8799) eyes H5869 saw H7200 (H8799) standing H5975 (H8802) beside H6440 river...
THE MIGHTY RAM - THE MEDO PERSIAN EMPIRE. ‘Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there stood before the river one ram which had two horns, and the two horns were high, but one was higher that...
RAM (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 8:20). _...
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 8:3 In this vision, Daniel saw an all-powerful RAM with TWO HORNS, ONE of which was longer THAN THE OTHER. The ram represents the Medo-Pe
_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 Chronicles 21:16; Daniel 10:5; Daniel 5:31; Daniel 6:28; Daniel 2:39