me. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "him".
two thousand and three hundred days. See App-91, and note on Daniel 8:26 below.
days. evenings and mornings, the times of the offering of the "continual" or daily sacrifice.
cleansed. vindicated or sanctified: in this form, occurs only here. Compare Daniel 9:24. and see App-90.
Verse 14. _UNTO TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS_] Though literally it be _two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings_. Yet I think the _prophetic day_ should be understood here, as in other...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME - Instead of answering the one who made the inquiry, the answer is made to Daniel, doubtless that he might make a record of it, or communicate it to others. If it had been made to...
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...
A dialogue between two angels, which is overheard by Daniel, and the object of which is evidently to inform Daniel how long the suspension of the daily sacrifices and the desecration of the Temple are...
Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), and his assaults upon the religion of the Jews (cf. Daniel 8:23)....
_unto me_ Sept. Theod. Pesh. _unto_ HIM, which is adopted by most moderns, and is probably right. _unto two thousand and three hundred_ EVENINGS, MORNINGS] i.e. successive evenings and mornings: cf. D...
UNTO TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS— In the original, _Unto two thousand and three hundred mornings and evenings;_ an evening and a morning being the Hebrew notation of time for a day. See Daniel...
b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the...
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. AND HE SAID UNTO ME - the answer is to Daniel, not to the inquirer, for the latter had asked in...
8:14 vindicated. (f-20) Lit. 'justified.'...
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...
DAYS] RV 'evenings and mornings,' 1,150 days. The period between 1Ma 1:54 and 1Ma 4:52-53, when the Temple was cleansed, was 3 years and 10 days. The 1,150 days may be reckoned from a slightly earlier...
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...
UNTO TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS. — It is clear from the language that the period here spoken of terminates with the cleansing of the sanctuary, and that it begins with the transgression that...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י עַ֚ד עֶ֣רֶב בֹּ֔קֶר אַלְפּ
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 (z) he said unto me, Unto (a) two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. (z) Christ answered me for the comfort of the Church. (a) That is, until so many natural...
Days. That is, six years and almost four months; which was the whole time from the beginning of the persecution of Antiochus till his death. (Challoner) --- He began A. [in the year] 143, and died A....
There is somewhat interesting in this short account; short as it is, of what the Prophet over-heard of this conversation. It shows how attentive ministering spirits are in their office, who are sent f...
The phrase, _And he said to me, _now follows. This ought to be referred not to the angel inquiring, but to the Wonderful One. Whence we, rather gather the great anxiety of the angel concerning the int...
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 HE SAID UNTO ME,.... That is, "Palmoni", the wonderful person, to whom the angel put the above question, gave the answer to it; not unto the angel that asked it, but unto Daniel that stood by; kno...
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Ver. 14. _And he said unto me._] Not to the angel, but to me, who should have proposed the questio...
_Then I heard one saint speaking_ The word _saint_ here is equivalent to _angel:_ see Daniel 4:13. What this saint or angel said, is not expressed; no more than the words spoken by that illustrious pe...
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days, literally, "evening-mornings"; THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED, or "justified," which may mean deconsecrated. The figures in the vis...
THE VISION ITSELF...
DAYS: _ Heb._ evening morning CLEANSED: _ Heb._ justified...
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...
HE SAID UNTO ME, i.e. that angel unnamed. Why did he speak to Daniel, and not to the angel that asked him? Because Daniel, and the church to which he related and was to communicate the answer, was mos...
Daniel 8:14 said H559 (H8799) thousand H505 three H7969 hundred H3967 days H6153 H1242 sanctuary H6944 cleansed...
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 8:12 Because of renewed TRANSGRESSION on the part of God’s people, the saints and the temple sacrifices were handed over to Antiochus IV, but only for a limited period: 2,300 eve...
_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 12:11; Daniel 12:7; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 8:26; Galatians 3:8;...
He — That angel. Then — Just so long it was, from the defection of the people, procured by Menelaus, the high — priest, to the cleansing of the sanctuary, and the re — establishment of religion among...