Daniel 10:5-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 10:5-6

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphas: his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. The version given by the Septuagint exhibits traces of confluence, "And it was [apparently reading וַיִּהִי ( vayyehee )] on... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 10:5

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked ... - While he was engaged in devotion. What is here said would lead us to suppose that he had been occupied in deep thought and meditation, perhaps with his eyes fixed on the ground.Behold, a certain man clothed in linen - One who had the form and appearance of a man.The subsequent disclosures showed that he was an angel, but when angels have appeared on earth they have commonly assumed the human form. The margin is, “one.” So also is the Hebrew “one... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 10:6

His body also was like the beryl - There is a very striking resemblance between the description here given and that of the Saviour as he appeared to John in Patmos, Revelation 1:13-16. See the notes at that passage. It contains, however, no description of the appearance of the body. “Beryl” is “a mineral of great hardness, occurring in green and bluish-green six-sided prisms. It is identical with the emerald, except that the latter has a purer and richer color. “ - Dana, in Webster’s... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 10:5-6

Daniel 10:5-6. I lifted up mine eyes Being by the river-side, in deep contemplation, I looked up, and saw a person appear before me, clothed in linen, &c. “Who this certain person was we may be at no loss to determine, if we consider him as described in the attire of the high-priest, and compare the passage with Exodus 28:29., and the description of the Son of man by St. John in the Revelation 1:13. If, however, he were not the Son of God himself, he was probably an angel of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 10:1-21

A vision beside the Tigris (10:1-11:1)Daniel’s final vision was also his longest, and his account of it lasts till the end of the book. At this time Cyrus was in the third year of his rule over the Jews (10:1). The Jews who had returned to their land had already met so much opposition that they had stopped rebuilding their temple (Ezra 4:1-5,Ezra 4:24).Perhaps this opposition was part of the cause of Daniel’s sadness (2-3). Whatever the cause, his mourning and fasting provided the circumstances... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 10:5

man . Hebrew ' ish . App-14 . clothed, &c. Compare the description in Revelation 1:0 . Note the Divine and angelic appearances in this book: Daniel 3:25 ; Daniel 4:13 , Daniel 4:17 , Daniel 4:23 ; Daniel 6:22 ; Daniel 7:16 ; Daniel 8:13 , Daniel 8:14 , Daniel 8:16-26 ; Daniel 9:21 ; Daniel 10:4-8 , Daniel 10:10 , Daniel 10:16 , Daniel 10:18 , Daniel 10:20 ; Daniel 12:1 , Daniel 12:5 , Daniel 12:6 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 10:5

Daniel 10:5. Fine gold of Uphaz— If we compare this place with Jer 10:9 and the reading of some of the versions, we shall probably be inclined to agree with Bochart and Calmet, that Ophir and Uphaz are the same. Origen on Job 22:24 observes, that some interpreters will have Sophir or Ophir to be Africa; and the ancient navigators touched upon it when they sailed from the Red Sea round the Cape of Good Hope, and returned by the Mediterranean. Mr. Bruce thinks Ophir to have been in Abyssinia,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 10:5

5. lifted up mine eyes—from the ground on which they had been fixed in his mourning. certain man—literally, "one man." An angel of the highest order; for in :- he commands Gabriel to make Daniel to understand the vision, and in Daniel 12:6 one of the two angels inquires of him how long it would be till the end predicted. linen—the raiment of priests, being the symbol of sanctity, as more pure than wool (Daniel 12:6- :); also of prophets (Daniel 12:6- :); and of angels (Daniel 12:6- :). girded... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 10:6

6. beryl—literally, "Tarshish," in Spain. The beryl, identical with the chrysolite or topaz, was imported into the East from Tarshish, and therefore is called "the Tarshish stone." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 10:4-9

Daniel’s vision of the man by the Tigris river 10:4-9 read more

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