Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Daniel 8:5
touched not the ground:
Or, none touched him in the earth
a notable horn:
Heb. a horn of sight
touched not the ground:
Or, none touched him in the earth
a notable horn:
Heb. a horn of sight
Verse Daniel 8:5. _BEHOLD, A HE-GOAT_] This was _Alexander the Great_; and a _goat_ was a very proper symbol of the Grecian or Macedonian people. Bp. _Newton_ very properly observes that, _two hundre...
AND AS I WAS CONSIDERING - As I was looking on this vision. It was a vison which would naturally attract attention, and one which would not be readily understood. It evidently denoted some combined po...
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...
HE GOAT. a leaper of the goats. The acknowledged symbol of Greece, as the ram was of Persia (see Daniel 8:3), because the first colony was directed by an oracle to take. goat for. guide and build. cit...
_considering paying attention, reflecting_(מבין): not, as in Daniel 7:8 (where the word is a different one), _contemplating_. _a he goat_ For the he-goat (though the Heb. word is different), the leade...
A he-goat, with a conspicuous horn between its eyes, appearing from the west, attacked the ram, and beat it down to the ground. The empire of the Greeks; the horn (cf. Daniel 8:21) being Alexander the...
AN HE-GOAT CAME FROM THE WEST— This is interpreted Daniel 8:21 to be the _king,_ or _kingdom of Grecia._ A _goat_ is very properly made the type of the Grecian or Macedonian empire, because the Macedo...
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...
And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. AN HE-GOAT CAME FROM T...
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...
AN HE GOAT. — This, according to Daniel 8:21, means the Greek empire, the large horn being the first king, or Alexander the Great. It may be remarked that the goat and the ram form the same contrast a...
וַ אֲנִ֣י ׀ הָיִ֣יתִי מֵבִ֗ין וְ הִנֵּ֤ה צְפִ
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...
And as I was considering, behold, (f) an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had] a notable (g) horn between his eyes. (f) Meaning Ale...
A he-goat. The empire of the Greeks, or Macedonians. --- He touched not the ground. He conquered all before him with so much rapidity, that he seemed rather to fly than to walk upon the earth. --- A n...
The principal feature of this history, in the battle of rams and he-goats, (meaning the kings of the earth), is what is said of this creature magnifying himself against the Prince of the host, even Je...
Here another change is shown to the Prophet, namely, Alexander’s coming to the east and acquiring. for himself the mighty sway of the Persians, as afterwards happened. With the view, then, of procurin...
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 AS I WAS CONSIDERING,.... The ram, and the strange things done by him; wondering that a creature of so little strength, comparatively with other beasts, should be able to do such exploits: and thi...
And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had] a notable horn between his eyes. Ver. 5. _And as I was c...
_As I was considering, behold, a he-goat_, &c. This is interpreted, Daniel 8:21, to be the _king_, or _kingdom, of Grecia._ “A _goat_ is very properly made the type of the Grecian or Macedonian empire...
And as I was considering, observing very closely everything that transpired, BEHOLD, AN HE-GOAT CAME FROM THE WEST, from Europe, across Asia Minor, ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH, sweeping along over...
THE VISION ITSELF...
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...
AN HE-GOAT; Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia and all Greece, called a he-goat because the Greeks were called \'c6geans, as was their sea, that country and its islands abounding in goats, as the...
Daniel 8:5 considering H995 (H8688) male H5795 goat H6842 came H935 (H8802) west H4628 surface H6440 earth...
THE MIGHTY HE-GOAT - THE GREEK EMPIRE. ‘And as I was considering, behold a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth and did not touch the ground. And the goat had a notable horn be...
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 8:5 A MALE GOAT CAME FROM THE WEST. Alexander the Great came from Greece, which was to the “west” of both Babylon and Persia. WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND. Alexander conquered 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 11:3; Daniel 2:32; Daniel 2:39; Daniel 7:6; Daniel 8:21;...
An he — goat — The Grecian empire. The whole earth — The whole Persian empire. Touched not the ground — Went with incredible swiftness. A horn — This was Alexander the great....