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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 7:15-18

4. The interpretation of the four beasts 7:15-18 read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 7:17

The interpreter gave Daniel a general answer to his question. He stressed that each of the four beasts represented a king (or kingdom, cf. Daniel 7:23). They arose from the earth’s population, which is what the sea symbolized (Daniel 7:2; cf. Isaiah 17:12-13; Isaiah 57:20-21; Jeremiah 46:7-8)."The ’four kings’ obviously refer to four kingdoms, as the beasts represent both a king and a kingdom." [Note: Walvoord, Daniel . . ., p. 172.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 7:18

The saints of the Highest One (Daniel 7:22; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 7:27) probably refer to believers of all ages (Daniel 7:27). [Note: Ibid.; Campbell, p. 85.] J. Dwight Pentecost wrote that they are believing Jews alive when Christ returns, "not believers of the Church age," since God did not reveal the church’s existence in the Old Testament. [Note: Pentecost, p. 1352.] They will receive the (fifth) kingdom and will possess it forever. People will have a share in the Son of Man’s everlasting... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:1-28

The Vision of the Four BeastsIn the first year of Belshazzar Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea (Daniel 7:1-3). The first is like a lion, with eagle’s wings (Daniel 7:4), the second like a bear (Daniel 7:5), the third like a leopard (Daniel 7:6), while the fourth is a unique and ferocious monster with ten horns (Daniel 7:7), Among the horns of the fourth beast there comes up a little horn with human eyes, which displaces three of the other ten, and carries itself proudly... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 7:17

(17) Four kings.—Kingdoms are frequently represented by their heads or founders; hence kings and kingdoms are occasionally used synonymously. (Comp. Daniel 8:21.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 7:1-28

Daniel 7:1 I am amusing myself with thinking of the prophecy of Daniel as a sort of allegory. All those monstrous, 'rombustical' beasts with their horns the horn with eyes and a mouth speaking proud things, and the little horn that waxed rebellious and stamped on the stars, seem like my passions and vain fancies, which are to be knocked down one after another until all is subdued with a universal kingdom over which the Ancient of Days presides the spirit of Love the Catholicism of the universe... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 7:1-28

VISION OF THE FOUR WILD BEASTSWE now enter upon the second division of the Book of Daniel-the apocalyptic. It is unquestionably inferior to the first part in grandeur and importance as a whole, but it contains not a few great conceptions, and it was well adapted to inspire the hopes and arouse the heroic courage of the persecuted Jews in the terrible days of Antiochus Epiphanes. Daniel now speaks in the first person, whereas throughout the historical section of the Book the third person has... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Daniel 7:1-28

II. THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF DANIEL CHAPTER 7 The night visions of Daniel 1. The night vision of the three beasts (Daniel 7:1-6 ) 2. The night vision of the fourth beast (Daniel 7:7-8 ) 3. The judgment vision (Daniel 7:9-12 ) 4. The son of man and His kingdom (Daniel 7:13-14 ) 5. The interpretation of the visions given (Daniel 7:15-28 ) Daniel 7:1-6 . The sea in the vision is the type of nations Revelation 17:15 . The three first beasts he saw represented the same great monarchies... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Daniel 7:18

7:18 But the saints of the {f} most High shall take the {g} kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.(f) That is, of the most high things, because God has chosen them out of this world, that they should look up to the heavens, upon which all their hope depends.(g) Because Abraham was appointed heir of all the world, Romans 4:13 , and in him all the faithful, therefore the kingdom of him is theirs by right, which these four beasts or tyrants would invade, and usurp until... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Daniel 7:1-28

THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS This and the vision in chapter 8 are the prophet’s “dream and visions,” and not the king’s. They occurred apparently during his political retirement in the earlier years of Belshazzar (Daniel 7:1 ; Daniel 8:1 ). They cover the same ground as Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and give us in more detail, and from a different point of view, the same story of Gentile dominion from his period to the end of the present age. One difference is that Nebuchadnezzar’s dream... read more