Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Daniel 8:17
Verse 17. At the time of the end shall be the vision.] Or, as Houbigant, "The vision shall have an end at the proper time."
Verse 17. At the time of the end shall be the vision.] Or, as Houbigant, "The vision shall have an end at the proper time."
SO HE CAME NEAR WHERE I STOOD - He had seen him, evidently, at first in the distance. He now drew near to Daniel, that he might communicate with him the more readily. AND WHEN, HE CAME, I WAS AFRAID,...
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...
SON OF MAN. Only Daniel and Ezekiel so called, beside Messiah. See note on Psalms 8:4. AT THE TIME OF THE END. This gives the time to which this vision refers. See the interpretation in (verses: Danie...
_afraid_ AFFRIGHTED (R.V.), as Isaiah 21:4, A.V. (Job 7:14 _al._-terrify"): -afraid" is not strong enough. At the approach of the celestial being Daniel is terrified. _fell upon my face_ a mark of awe...
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...
FOR AT THE TIME OF THE END, &C.— _For the vision shall have an end at its proper time._ Houbigant; and so Daniel 8:19....
b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the...
So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. FOR AT THE TIME...
8:17 vision (g-31) Heb. _ chazan_ , from _ chozeh_ , seer, as vers. 1,2,13,26 (second time)....
AT THE TIME OF THE END, ETC.] RV 'The vision belongeth to the time of the end.' This defines the limit of Daniel's outlook upon the future. The termination of this vision is therefore that of all the...
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...
THE TIME OF THE END — _i.e.,_ either at the final period of earthly history, or at the time which lies at the limit of the prophetic horizon. St. Jerome observes that what happened in the times of Ant...
וַ יָּבֹא֙ אֵ֣צֶל עָמְדִ֔י וּ בְ בֹאֹ֣ו
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...
So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for (d) at the time of the end [shall be] the vision. (d) The effe...
_Man. So Ezechiel is usually styled, to shew that the human nature is different from that of angels, and would be greatly honoured by Jesus Christ, who takes this appellation. (Worthington) --- Of the...
I feel more disposed to enquire who this man was whose voice Daniel heard, than to attend to what the laboured efforts of unawakened, unregenerated men have written, in determining according to their...
I will not repeat what I have already explained. I will proceed with what I had commenced, namely, the Prophet’s need of instruction, because he could not understand the vision without an interpreter;...
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...
SO HE CAME NEAR WHERE I STOOD,.... The angel immediately obeyed the divine Person in human form, and came near the prophet, in order to instruct him, and carry on a familiar conversation with him: AN...
So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end [shall be] the vision. Ver. 17. _So he...
_So he came near where I stood_ That he might speak more familiarly with him. _And when he came, I was afraid_ This fear was probably occasioned by the effulgent brightness of the heavenly messenger,...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, the close proximity of a holy being filled him with fear, AND FELL UPON MY FACE; BUT HE SAID UNTO ME, UNDERSTAND, O SON OF MAN, the addre...
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...
HE CAME NEAR, that he might speak more familiarly to him, yet Daniel could not bear the glory of it, MATTHEW 17:6. How much less can we bear the glory of God! and how graciously hath the Lord dealt wi...
Daniel 8:17 came H935 (H8799) near H681 stood H5977 came H935 (H8800) afraid H1204 (H8738) fell...
‘So he came near where I stood, and when he came I was filled with awe, and fell on my face. But he said to me, “Understand O son of man, for the vision belongs to the time of the end.” The approach o...
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...
_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 10:16; Daniel 10:7; Daniel 10:8; Daniel 10:11; Daniel 11:35;...
He came near — That he might speak more familiarly to him, yet Daniel could not bear the glory of it. How much less can we bear the glory of God, and how graciously hath the Lord dealt with us, to tea...