Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Daniel 8:27
fainted. The Septuagint omits "fainted, and".
the king's business. In Shushan, whither he had gone. See note on Daniel 8:2.
astonished. dumb.
understood. became aware of.
fainted. The Septuagint omits "fainted, and".
the king's business. In Shushan, whither he had gone. See note on Daniel 8:2.
astonished. dumb.
understood. became aware of.
Verse Daniel 8:27. _DANIEL FAINTED_] To foresee the desolations that were coming on the land, the city, the temple, and the people. _DID THE KING'S BUSINESS_] Transacted the affairs of state that be...
AND I DANIEL FAINTED - Hebrew, “I was “ - נהייתי _nı̂h__e__yēythı̂y_. Compare Daniel 2:1. The meaning, according to Gesenius (“Lexicon”), is, “I was done up, and was sick:” - I was done over, etc. Pe...
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...
_fainted_ The expression is peculiar: if correct, it must mean _I was done with, exhausted_, the verb being the same that is used in Daniel 2:1 in the passage -his sleep was _done with_upon him." It d...
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...
I DANIEL FAINTED— Daniel's sickness proceeded from his grief for his religion and country; as in the former vision he was grieved at the success of the _little horn,_ there described. And this is anot...
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 I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. I DANIEL FAINTED, AND WAS SICK - throu...
8:27 vision, (a-25) See Note h ver. 16. understood (b-28) Or 'explained.'...
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...
וַ אֲנִ֣י דָנִיֵּ֗אל נִהְיֵ֤יתִי וְ נֶֽחֱלֵ֨יתִי֙...
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...
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick (q) [certain] days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood [it]. (q) Because of fear and astonish...
_Business, at Susa. Nabuchodonosor had given him the province of Babylon. --- It. All prophecies have a degree of obscurity before they be accomplished. Hebrew may intimate that none could tell the ca...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us both beg of God for grace to gather suitable improvements from this Chapter, and such as God the Holy Ghost evidently intended the Church should derive from the perusal of i...
Again, Daniel shews himself to have been so touched with the secret instinct of God, that he knew for certain this vision to have been divinely presented to him. For God wished so to affect his servan...
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 I DANIEL FAINTED AND WAS SICK CERTAIN DAYS,.... Or, "then I Daniel fainted" x; after he had seen the vision, and had thought upon it, and considered the afflictions that were to come upon the peop...
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick [certain] days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood [it]. Ver. 27. _And I Daniel fainted, and...
_And I Daniel fainted_ Rather, _languished_, or _pined_, being overwhelmed with grief at the calamities which I learned by the vision were to come upon my countrymen, and also for the profanation of t...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
And I, Daniel, overcome by the startling and overwhelming character of the revelation, FAINTED AND WAS SICK CERTAIN DAYS. AFTERWARD I ROSE UP AND DID THE KING'S BUSINESS, attending to the duties of hi...
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...
WAS SICK CERTAIN DAYS; greatly afflicted, to consider the sad calamity that should befall the poor people of God. This he did in compassion and sympathy with his people, upon whom these sufferings sho...
Daniel 8:27 Daniel H1840 fainted H1961 (H8738) sick H2470 (H8738) days H3117 arose H6965 (H8799) went...
‘And I Daniel was totally exhausted, and was sick certain days. Then I rose up and did the business of the king, and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it (or ‘I did not understand it...
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 8:27 Even though Daniel DID NOT fully UNDERSTAND the VISION, he was nonetheless OVERCOME and appalled
_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 Samuel 3:15; Daniel 10:16; Daniel 10:8; Daniel 2:48; Daniel 2:49;...
Was sick — Being overwhelmed by a sense of the calamity that should befall the people of God. Did the king's business — Having recovered strength, he minded his place, duty and trust, and concealed th...