Scofield's Bible Commentary
Daniel 8:23
king of fierce countenance
That is, Antiochus Epiphanes who arose out of Syria, one of the "four kingdoms," B.C. 170.
king of fierce countenance
That is, Antiochus Epiphanes who arose out of Syria, one of the "four kingdoms," B.C. 170.
Verse Daniel 8:23. _WHEN THE TRANSGRESSORS ARE COME TO THE FULL_] When the utmost degradation has taken place, by the _buying_ and _selling_ of the _high priesthood_; for _Onias_ was ejected for a su...
AND IN THE LATTER TIME OF THEIR KINGDOM - When it shall be drawing to an end. All these powers were ultimately absorbed in the Roman power; and the meaning here is, that taking the time from the perio...
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...
THE LATTER TIME OF THEIR KINGDOM, &C. This is. further indication as to the interpretation of this vision. THE TRANSGRESSORS. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "transgressions". Hebrew. _pasha...
The explanation of the vision....
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...
_in the latter time of their kingdom_ in the closing period of the rule of the Diadochi (which the author pictures as brought altogether to an end at the death of Antiochus). _when the transgressors_...
A fuller description of the character and policy of Antiochus Epiphanes....
IN THE LATTER TIME, &C.— The Romans might be said to _stand up in the latter time,_ &c. who saw the end not only of one kingdom, but of all four; who first subdued the kingdom of Macedon and Greece; t...
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 in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. IN THE LATTER TIME OF THEIR KIN...
8:23 riddles, (m-25) Or 'dark sentences,' or 'hard sentences,' as ch. 5.12. see Numbers 12:8 ; or 'wiles.'...
A KING OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE] Antiochus Epiphanes. UNDERSTANDING DARK SENTENCES] skilled in deceitful intrigues....
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...
TRANSGRESSORS... — When transgressors have filled up the measure of their guilt so as to exceed the limits of God’s mercy, then this event shall take place. The transgressors are the apostate Jews. He...
וּֽ בְ אַחֲרִית֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ם כְּ הָתֵ֖ם 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 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 in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of (h) fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. (h) Noting that this Antiochu...
_Shameless. Hebrew: "hard," cruel, and impudent, as Epiphanes was. (1 Machabees i. 2.) Marcellinus styles him "wrathful and savage." --- Sentences, making use of artifice to seize the estates of his n...
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...
_And at the end of their reign, when the wicked shall be at their height, one king shall stand _By saying at the end of their kingdom, he does not mean to imply the destruction of the four kingdoms ha...
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 IN THE LATTER TIME OF THEIR KINGDOM,.... Toward the close of the kingdom of the four kings that divided Alexander's kingdom; for though they were four distinct kings, and had four separate kingdom...
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. Ver. 23. _And in the latter time...
_And in the latter end of their kingdom_ When their power was diminishing, and the Roman empire beginning to be established in Greece, from whence the Grecian kingdoms in Asia had their origin: for th...
And in the latter time of their kingdom, that is, after these dynasties had been in existence for some time, WHEN THE TRANSGRESSORS ARE COME TO THE FULL, when the apostate Jews would once more have fu...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
ARE COME TO THE FULL: _ Heb._ are accomplished...
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...
IN THE LATTER TIME OF THEIR KINGDOM, i.e. when they were come to the height, and beginning to decline. It notes that time when the Romans began to seize part of the Grecian kingdom, by Emilius Probus,...
Daniel 8:23 time H319 kingdom H4438 transgressors H6586 (H8802) fullness H8552 (H8687) king H4428 arise H5975 ...
‘And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors (or, repointed, this could be ‘transgressions') are come to the full, a king of strong countenance, and understanding riddles, will sta...
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 8:15 The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that the vision concerns the future of the region, which God rules for his purposes. The vision is given to prepare God’s people for the...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:23 The “little horn” of v. Daniel 8:9 corresponds to a KING OF BOLD FACE, who was completely wicked. This describes Antiochus IV Epiphanes (reigned 175–164...
_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 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Daniel 10:14;...
In the latter time — When they were come to the height, and beginning to decline. When the transgressors — When the Jews were grown to an excess of wickedness, then God suffered Antiochus to persecute...