VISION The eighth chapter gives details concerning the second and third world-kingdoms: the silver and brass kingdoms of Daniel 2, the bear and leopard kingdoms of Daniel 7, namely, the Medo-Persian and Macedonian kingdoms of history. At the time of this vision (Daniel 8:1) the first monarchy was n... [ Continue Reading ]
RAM (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 8:20). _... [ Continue Reading ]
LITTLE HORN The "little horn" here is a prophecy fulfilled in Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 175, who profaned the temple and terribly persecuted the Jews. He is not to be confounded with the "little horn" of Daniel 7, who is yet to come, and who will dominate the earth during the great tribulation. (_... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT WAXED GREAT This passage (Daniel 8:10) is confessedly the most difficult in prophecy, a difficulty increased by the present state of the text. Historically this was fulfilled in and by Antiochus Epiphanes, but in a more intense and final sense Antiochus but adumbrates the awful blasphemy of... [ Continue Reading ]
DAILY SACRIFICE Compare (Daniel 9:27) where the Beast comes into view:... [ Continue Reading ]
DESOLATION Seven times in Daniel the "desolation" is spoken of: (1) Of the sanctuary, (Daniel 8:13) fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 175-170. (2) Of the sanctuary, (Daniel 9:17) the condition in Daniel's time, when the Jews were in exile and the sanctuary desolate. (3) Generally, of the la... [ Continue Reading ]
A MAN The theophanies. (Daniel 8:15); (Daniel 10:6); (Daniel 10:10); (Daniel 10:18); (Genesis 12:7); (Revelation 1:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
END Two "ends" are in view here: (1) historically, the end of the third, or Grecian empire of Alexander out of one of the divisions of which the little horn of verse 9 (Daniel 8:9) (Antiochus) arose; (2) prophetically, the end of the times of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24); (Revelation 16:14) when the... [ Continue Reading ]
RAM Verses (Daniel 8:3); (Daniel 8:4). The "higher" horn which "came up last" is Cyrus, the other "Darius the Mede.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRST KING That is, Alexander the Great.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUR KINGDOMS The four empires into which Alexander's empire was divided about B.C. 300; Greece, Asia Minor, including Syria, Egypt, the East.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE That is, Antiochus Epiphanes who arose out of Syria, one of the "four kingdoms," B.C. 170.... [ Continue Reading ]