By the word “Javan” the Hebrews designate not only the Greeks but the: Macedonians, and the whole of that tract which is divided by the Hellespont, from Asia Minor as far as Illyricmn. Therefore the meaning is — the king of Greece.
AND THE ROUGH GOAT - See the notes at Daniel 8:5. In Daniel 8:5 he is called a he-goat. Here the word rough or hairy - שׂעיר _s'â‛ı̂yr_ - is applied to it. This appellation is often given to a goat...
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...
IS. representeth. It is the Figure of speech _Metaphor_ (App-6). KING: or, kingdom. GRECIA. Greece. IS THE FIRST KING. representeth the first king: i.e. Alexander the Great (Daniel 8:5)....
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 rough_ HE - _goat_ Daniel 8:5. The word rendering -rough" (_sâ-îr_), treated as a subst., is the usual old Hebrew word for a he-goat (Genesis 37:31, &c.): the word here rendered -he-goat" (_ṣâphî...
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 rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. THE GREAT HORN THAT IS BETWEEN HIS EYES IS THE FIRST KING. Philip was king of Macedon befor...
8:21 rough (k-3) Lit. 'hairy.' Greece; (l-9) _ Javan_ , Genesis 10:2 ....
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 KING OF GRECIA(RV 'Greece')] 'King' is evidently used loosely for 'kingdom' (as in Daniel 7:17), since the kings are particularised as horns in what follows. THE FIRST KING] Alexander the Great....
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...
(20-22) See Notes on Daniel 8:3....
וְ הַ צָּפִ֥יר הַ שָּׂעִ֖יר מֶ֣לֶךְ יָוָ֑ן
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...
_Is. Hebrew: " are the kings," (Haydock) including all. (ver. 3.)_...
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...
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 ROUGH GOAT IS THE KING OF GRECIA,.... Including all the kings of it, from Alexander to the end of the Grecian monarchy; or rather the kingdom of Greece, which began in him, and continued until...
And the rough goat [is] the king of Grecia: and the great horn that [is] between his eyes [is] the first king. Ver. 21. _And the rough goat._] _Hirtus hircus._ See on Daniel 8:5 ....
_The ram, &c., having two horns, are the kings_, or _kingdoms_ rather, _of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king_, or _kingdom, of Grecia. And the great horn, &c., is the first king_ Namely...
And the rough goat, moving eastward across Asia Minor in victorious advance, IS THE KING OF GRECIA, literally, "of Javan," Macedonia, Greece, and the Ionian colonies being included in the term; AND TH...
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 KING OF GRECIA; of Javan, or Ion, or Joan, which properly is Asia the Less, which was inhabited by Javan, GENESIS 10:2, but spread over all Greece, and all spake Greek, and the sea was thence call...
Daniel 8:21 male H8163 goat H6842 kingdom H4428 Greece H3120 large H1419 horn H7161 eyes H5869 first H7223 king...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VISION. ‘The ram which you saw, which had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn that is betw...
FIRST KING That is, Alexander the Great....
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...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:20 Unlike the vision of ch. Daniel 7:1, the vision of Daniel 8:3 is precisely interpreted by the angel.
_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 10:20; Daniel 11:3; Daniel 8:5; Daniel 8:8...