Daniel 9:27

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. AND HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT - Christ. The confirmation of the covenant is assigned to Him also elsewhere, (, "I will give thee for a covenant of the people" - i:e., He in whom the covenant between Israel and God is personally expressed; cf. , "the new testament is my blood;" , "the angel of the covenant;" describes the Messianic covenant in full)...

The angel now returns to Christ. We have explained why he made mention of the coming slaughter; first, to shew the faithful that they had no reason for remaining in the body of the nation in preference to being cut off from it; and next, to prevent the unbelievers from being satisfied with their obstinacy and their contempt of their inestimable blessings, by their rejecting the person of Christ. Thus this clause was interposed concerning the future devastation of the city and temple. The angel now continues his discourse concerning Christ by saying, _he should confirm the treaty with many for one week _This clause answers to the former, in which Christ is called a Leader. Christ took upon him the character of a leader, or assumed the kingly office, when he promulgated the grace of God. This is the confirmation of the covenant of which the angel now speaks. As we have already stated, the...

20-27 An answer was immediately sent to Daniel's prayer, and it is a very memorable one. We cannot now expect that God should send answers to our prayers by angels, but if we pray with fervency for that which God has promised, we may by faith take the promise as an immediate answer to the prayer; for He is faithful that has promised. Daniel had a far greater and more glorious redemption discovered to him, which God would work out for his church in the latter days. Those who would be acquainted with Christ and his grace, must be much in prayer. The evening offering was a type of the great sacrifice Christ was to offer in the evening of the world: in virtue of that sacrifice Daniel's prayer was accepted; and for the sake of that, this glorious discovery of redeeming love was made to him. We have, in verses Daniel 9:24, one of the most remarkable prophecies of Christ, of his coming and his...

Verse Daniel 9:27. _AND FOR THE OVERSPREADING OF ABOMINATIONS HE SHALL_ _MAKE IT DESOLATE_] This clause is remarkably obscure. כנף שקוצים משמם _kenaph shikkutsim meshomem_, "And upon the wing of abominations causing amazement." This is a literal translation of the place; but still there is no determinate sense. A _Hebrew_ MS., written in the _thirteenth_ century, has preserved a very remarkable reading here, which frees the place from all embarrassment. Instead of the above reading, this valuable MS. has ובהיכל יהיה שיקוץ _ubeheychal yihyey shikkuts_; that is, "And in the temple (of the Lord) there shall be abomination." This makes the passage plain, and is strictly conformable to the facts themselves, for the temple was profaned; and it agrees with the prediction of our Lord, who said that _the abomination that maketh desolate should_ stand...

AND HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT - literally, “he shall make strong” - והגביר _v__e__hı̂g__e__bı̂yr_. The idea is that of giving strength, or stability; of making firm and sure. The Hebrew word here evidently refers to the “covenant” which God is said to establish with his people - so often referred to in the Scriptures as expressing the relation between Him and them, and hence used, in general, to denote the laws and institutions of the true religion - the laws which God has made for his church; his promises to be their protector, etc., and the institutions which grow out of that relation. The margin reads it, more in accordance with the Hebrew, “a,” meaning that he would confirm or establish “a covenant” with the many. According to this, it is not necessary to suppose that it was any existing covenant that it referred to, but that he would ratify what was understood by

EXPOSITION DANIEL 9:1 THE SEVENTY WEEKS. This is the chapter of Daniel which has occasioned most controversy. It was appealed to by Tertullian and the early Fathers as a demonstration of the correctness of our Lord's claims to Messiahship. It is now received by critical commentators that to our Lord this prophecy cannot refer. Many treatises have been written on the "seventy weeks" of Daniel, and none of them have entirely cleared up the difficulties; indeed, it may be doubted whether all together they have illuminated the subject very much. DANIEL 9:1, DANIEL 9:2 In the first ye

AND HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK,.... Sixty nine of the seventy weeks being accounted for, and the several events observed to be fulfilled in them; the angel proceeds to take notice of the remaining "one" week, or seven years, and what should be done within that space of time: a covenant should be confirmed with many; which is not to be understood of the Messiah's confirming the covenant of grace with many, or on account of all his people, by fulfilling the conditions of it, and by his blood and sacrifice, through which all the blessings of it come to them; for this is not for one week only, but for ever; but this is to be interpreted of the Roman people, spoken of in the latter part of the preceding verse; who, in order to accomplish their design to destroy the city and temple of Jerusalem, made peace with many nations, entered into covenant and alliance with the...

ABOMINATIONS (Compare Matthew 24:15). The expression occurs three times in Daniel. In; (Daniel 9:27); (Daniel 12:11) the reference is to the "Beast," "man of sin"; (2 Thessalonians 2:3); (2 Thessalonians 2:4) and is identical with (Matthew 24:15). In (Daniel 11:31) the reference is to the act of Antiochus Epiphanes, the prototype of th

CHAPTER 9 THE PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS _ 1. The time and occasion of Daniel's prayer (Daniel 9:1)_ 2. The prayer (Daniel 9:3) 3. The answer and the prophecy of the seventy weeks (Daniel 9:20) Daniel 9:1. It was in the first year of Darius, of the seed of the Medes, that Daniel understood by the sacred writings of his people, especially by the prophecy of Jeremiah, that the end of the years of the captivity was at hand. The promises in the Word of God led him at once to seek the face of the Lord and he poured out a wonderful prayer in His presence....

DANIEL 9:27. (a most difficult verse) HE SHALL MAKE A FIRM COVENANT: if the reference is to Antiochus, as seems absolutely certain, the words can only mean that he made a covenant with apostate Jews in order to secure their help in extirpating the Jewish religion. Some scholars emend the text and translate, the covenant shall be annulled for the many, _i.e._ there shall be a period of general apostasy. ONE WEEK: 7 years. HALF OF THE WEEK: the 3½ years during which the sacrifices were suspended by Antiochus (_cf. Daniel 7:25_, Daniel 8:14). UPON THE WING OF ABOMINATIONS: another difficult and obscure phrase. As it stands, it can only be explained on the analogy of...