Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Daniel 8:6
ran unto him. Symbolizing the rapidity of Alexander's conquests, which, in the short space of thirteen years, subdued the world.
ran unto him. Symbolizing the rapidity of Alexander's conquests, which, in the short space of thirteen years, subdued the world.
Verse Daniel 8:6. _AND HE CAME TO THE RAM._] This and the following verse give an account of the overthrow of the Persian empire by Alexander. _AND RAN UNTO HIM IN THE FURY OF HIS POWER_] The confli...
AND HE CAME TO THE RAM ... - Representing the Medo-Persian power. AND RAN UNTO HIM IN THE FURY OF HIS POWER - Representing the fierceness and fury with which Alexander attacked the Persians at the Gr...
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 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...
Alexander's attack upon Persia. _that had two horns that had_ THE TWO _horns_(Daniel 8:3). _the river the_ STREAM (Daniel 8:2). _ran unto him_ AT or (R.V.) UPON him (Job 15:26)....
HE CAME TO THE RAM, &C.— In these two verses we have an account of the Grecians overthrowing the Persian empire. The ram had before, Daniel 8:4 _pushed westward;_ and the Persians, in the reign of Dar...
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 he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. HE CAME TO THE RAM THAT HAD TWO HORNS ... STANDING BEFORE THE RIVE...
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...
RAN UNTO HIM. — The wonderful rapidity of Alexander’s movements, incredible, if it were not so well attested in history, is here pointed out. From the battle of Granicus to that of Arbela only three y...
וַ יָּבֹ֗א עַד ־הָ אַ֨יִל֙ בַּ֣עַל הַ
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...
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...
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 CAME TO THE RAM THAT HAD TWO HORNS,.... Alexander being chosen and made by the states of Greece captain general of all Greece against the Persians, marched from thence with his army, passed the...
And he came to the ram that had [two] horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. Ver. 6. _And he came to the ram that had two horns._] He came. This...
_And he came to the ram that had two horns_, &c. “The ram had before _pushed westward_, and the Persians, in the reign of Darius Hystaspes and Xerxes, had poured down with great armies into Greece; bu...
And he came to the ram that had two horns, not stopping for any consideration, WHICH I HAD SEEN STANDING BEFORE THE RIVER, AND RAN UNTO HIM IN THE FURY OF HIS POWER, in irresistible, mighty rage....
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...
THE RAM THAT HAD TWO HORNS, i.e. the king of Media and Persia, and joined battle presently and furiously, Jehu like....
Daniel 8:6 came H935 (H8799) ram H352 had H1167 horns H7161 seen H7200 (H8804) standing H5975 ...
‘And he came to the ram which had two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was full of rage against him, a...
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...
_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 8:3...
The ram — The king of Media and Persia....