Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:20
20. look . . . more stout than . . . fellows—namely, than that of the other horns. read more
Daniel 7
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:21
21. made war with the saints—persecuted the Church (Revelation 11:7; Revelation 13:7). prevailed—but not ultimately. The limit is marked by "until" (Revelation 13:7- :). The little horn continues, without intermission, to persecute up to Christ's second advent (Revelation 17:12; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:19; Revelation 19:20). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:22
22. Ancient of days came—The title applied to the Father in :- is here applied to the Son; who is called "the everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6). The Father is never said to "come"; it is the Son who comes. judgment was given to . . . saints—Judgment includes rule; "kingdom" in the end of this verse (1 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation 1:6; Revelation 5:10; Revelation 20:4). Christ first receives "judgment" and the "kingdom," then the saints with Him (Daniel 7:13; Daniel 7:14). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:24
24. ten horns—answering to the ten "toes" (Daniel 2:41). out of this kingdom—It is out of the fourth kingdom that ten others arise, whatever exterior territory any of them possess (Revelation 13:1; Revelation 17:12). rise after them—yet contemporaneous with them; the ten are contemporaries. Antichrist rises after their rise, at first "little" (Revelation 17:12- :); but after destroying three of the ten, he becomes greater than them all (Daniel 7:20; Daniel 7:21). The three being gone, he is the... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:25
25. Three attributes of Antichrist are specified: (1) The highest worldly wisdom and civilization. (2) The uniting of the whole civilized world under his dominion. (3) Atheism, antitheism, and autotheism in its fullest development (1 John 2:22). Therefore, not only is power taken from the fourth beast, as in the case of the other three, but God destroys it and the world power in general by a final judgment. The present external Christianity is to give place to an almost universal apostasy.... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:26
26. consume . . . destroy—a twofold operation. Antichrist is to be gradually "consumed," as the Papacy has been consuming for four hundred years past, and especially of late years. He is also to be "destroyed" suddenly by Christ at His coming; the fully developed man of sin (2 Thessalonians 2:3) or false prophet making a last desperate effort in confederacy with the "beast" (Revelation 16:13; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 16:16) or secular power of the Roman empire (some conjecture Louis... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:27
27. greatness of the kingdom under . . . whole heaven—The power, which those several kingdoms had possessed, shall all be conferred on Messiah's kingdom. "Under . . . heaven" shows it is a kingdom on earth, not in heaven. people of . . . saints of . . . Most High—"the people of the saints," or "holy ones" (Daniel 8:24, Margin): the Jews, the people to whom the saints stand in a peculiar relation. The saints are gathered out of Jews and Gentiles, but the stock of the Church is Jewish (Romans... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:28
28. cogitations . . . troubled me—showing that the Holy Spirit intended much more to be understood by Daniel's words than Daniel himself understood. We are not to limit the significance of prophecies to what the prophets themselves understood (1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 7
F. Daniel’s vision of future world history ch. 7"As interpreted by conservative expositors, the vision of Daniel [in chapter 7] provides the most comprehensive and detailed prophecy of future events to be found anywhere in the Old Testament." [Note: Walvoord, p. 145.] "The vision’s setting in the Book of Daniel makes it the book’s central hinge. In language [i.e., Aramaic], it belongs with the preceding chapters, while structurally it rounds off a chiasm begun in chap. 2: 2 A vision of four... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:19
19. Balaam, an Aramean, dwelling on the Euphrates, at the beginning of Israel's independent history, and Daniel at the close of it, prophetically exhibit to the hostile world powers Israel as triumphant over them at last, though the world powers of the East (Asshur) and the West (Chittim) carry all before them and afflict Eber (Israel) for a time (Numbers 23:8-10; Numbers 23:28; Numbers 24:2; Numbers 24:7-9; Numbers 24:22-24). To Balaam's "Asshur" correspond Daniel's two eastern kingdoms,... read more