Daniel 12:4

Hiddekel] the Tigris (Genesis 2:14): see on 82.

7. Cp. Acts 9:7.

Knowledge] better, with LXX, 'evils.' The last half of the v. sums up the confusions and calamities of the long period which has been described, between Daniel's days and the 'time of the end.'

(c) Concluding Explanations (Daniel 12:5)

The angel who has spoken throughout the vision has now two companions, one on either side of the river. In reply to one of these he states that 'a time, times, and an half' shall elapse before the end to which the vision points. In answer to Daniel he explains that from the taking away of the daily sacrifice and the setting up of the abomination of desolation 1,290 days are first to be reckoned, and then 45 days more, making in all 1,335 days. The 1,290 days seem to correspond to the general distress under Antiochus Epiphanes, and the 45 days to the further period of tribulation spoken of in Daniel 12:1. As the author is here writing of the actual future no exact correspondence of these numbers with historical dates is to be looked for.

9. repeats Daniel 12:4, and

10. repeats Daniel 11:35.