And I am come to make thee understand, &c. cf. Daniel 8:16; Daniel 9:22; also Daniel 9:23 b.

what shall befall thy people in the end of the days The sentence seems to be framed on the model of Genesis 49:1. On the -end (a different word from that occurring in Daniel 8:17; Daniel 8:19) of the days," see on Daniel 2:28. Here the expression denotes the age of Antiochus Epiphanes.

for there is yet a vision for the days viz. the days just mentioned: a vision, relating to these, remains still to be told. Or, altering the point which indicates the article, for the vision is yet for(many) days: it relates to the -end of the days," not to the present; cf. Daniel 8:17 b, Daniel 8:26 b.

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