Daniel 12:2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 12:1-4

It is usual with the prophets, when they foretel the grievances of the church, to furnish it at the same time with proper antidotes, a remedy for every malady. And no relief is so sovereign, of such general application, so easily accommodated to every case, and of such powerful efficacy, as those that are fetched from Christ and the future state; thence the comforts here are fetched. I. Jesus Christ shall appear his church's patron and protector: At that time, when the persecution is at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake ,.... Which is not to be understood in a figurative and metaphorical, sense, as by R. Jeshuah the Jew, Porphyry the Heathen, and by some Christian writers; neither of the deliverance of the Jews from the troubles of Antiochus, or their present captivity; nor of the spiritual resurrection of them, or others, from their state of infidelity to a profession of the Gospel, which in some is real, in others only hypocritical; but, in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 12:2

Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth - This prophecy has been referred to the future restoration of the Jews. It will be also true of the state of mankind at the general judgment. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 12:2

Verse 2 As to the translation of the first words, it is literally, many who sleep in the earth of dust, or who are in earth and dust; for the genitive is used as an epithet, though it may be read as if in opposition with the former word sleep, meaning those who are reduced to earth and dust. The angel seems here to mark a transition from the commencement of the preaching of the gospel, to the final day of the resurrection, without sufficient occasion for it. For why does he pass over the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 12:1-3

The shining of the clear and the converting. "And they that be wise shall shine" etc. ( Daniel 12:3 ). Here are two types of humanity and two destinies. There is a likeness both in the types and in the destinies, such as we might expect from the parallelism of the text; at the same time, there are differences. The one type is in advance of the other; so is the Divine recognition in the one case as against the preceding. In the one case we have an attribute of soul, in the other an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 12:1-4

Prophetic events in perspective. Nature is full of types. The leaf is type of the tree. The dawn is a type of the resurrection. The same law that moulds the dew-drop moulded the earth. History likewise is full of types. The banishment from Eden is a type of exclusion from heaven. The redemption of the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage is a type of the redemption of the race by Jesus Christ. Both prosperous and adverse events in human history serve as types. This is the key to the present... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 12:1-13

EXPOSITION THE LAST THINGS . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. The Septuagint rendering is, "And many that sleep in the breadth ( πλάτει ) of the earth shall arise, some to life eternal, and some to reproach, some to dispersion ( διασπορὰν ) and eternal shame." These terms, "reproach" and "dispersion," are different attempts to render חֲרָפוֹת ( haraphoth ), "reproaches." The differences between the above... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 12:2

The resurrection. I. THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION . For us the Jewish notion of a resurrection is equivalent to the idea of a future life. 1 . The yearning for a future life is involuntary and apparently instinctive; the belief in a future life is almost universal amongst people in all degrees of civilization, and with all varieties of religion; the need of a future life for the execution of justice and the development of the hopes and promises of this life is such that we might... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 12:2

And many of them - The natural and obvious meaning of the word “many” (רבים rabı̂ym) here is, that a large portion of the persons referred to would thus awake, but not all. So we should understand it if applied to other things, as in such expressions as these - “many of the people,” “many of the houses in a city,” “many of the trees in a forest,” “many of the rivers in a country,” etc. In the Scriptures, however, it is undeniable that the word is sometimes used to denote the whole considered as... read more

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