DANIEL CHAPTER 12 Michael shall deliver Israel out of trouble: the general resurrection and recompence of the just and unjust, DANIEL 12:1. Daniel heareth the times, but understandeth not: he is bid to wait the end, which shall be in his favour, DANIEL 12:5. Many interpret this of the heat of Antioc... [ Continue Reading ]
So enamoured are some of their notions, though found false and ill-grounded, that they will pertinaciously hold them, and seek still to prove one absurdity from another, as Grotius doth here, still expounding all of Antiochus, and so makes this resurrection metaphorical, and not the real ultimate on... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the faithful are called wise, i. e. _to salvation_, and so these two members include teachers, and disciples that are truly taught the way of salvation, i.e. such as are taught of God to learn Christ as the truth is in Jesus, 1 THESSALONIANS 6:45 EPHESIANS 4:21. They that teach true justificati... [ Continue Reading ]
SHUT UP THE WORDS, AND SEAL THE BOOK, EVEN TO THE TIME OF THE END: by these words the angel doth not forbid all knowledge of the things here foretold, for WHATSOEVER IS WRITTEN IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING; but the meaning is, 1. That Daniel must take notice of the special favour of God to him to ma... [ Continue Reading ]
Two angels, waiting and ministering on Christ to observe his commands, by the banks of the river Tigris or Hiddekel, where this new vision was.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN; to Michael, DANIEL 10:5; Christ, who seemed to stand between the banks, i.e. in the air above the waters, or upon them, MATTHEW 14:25; upon many people, say some, REVELATION 10:2. HOW LONG SHALL IT BE TO THE END OF THESE WONDERS? the angels themselves inquire into these... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND AND HIS LEFT HAND UNTO HEAVEN: here he calls God to witness the truth of this thing: many reasons are given by sundry expositors of it why he held up both hands to heaven. 1. For the more sure and solemn confirmation of it. 2. To denote the unchangeableness of God's decree... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. What is the meaning of all this, of the TIMES, TIME, AND HALF, when they begin and end; and when the enemies of the churches, and the sufferings of the church, shall have their end.... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall not be clearly understood till the event make them good: see DANIEL 12:4, and DANIEL 8:26. God is choice in keeping the keys of time at his own girdle, ACTS 1:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of this purging and purifying you heard before, DANIEL 11:35; the meaning is, the great afflictions of the church are to prepare them, by taking away their filth, for the Bridegroom, as gold and silver are tried and refined. NONE OF THE WICKED SHALL UNDERSTAND; BUT THE WISE SHALL UNDERSTAND: they sh... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
These days are either, 1. Natural days, and properly so called, and so the times of Antiochus are hereby noted. Or, 2. Prophetical days, a day for a year, EZEKIEL 4:6; and thus one thousand two hundred and ninety days is forty-two months, which if we multiply at thirty days the month make the sum o... [ Continue Reading ]
I have revealed to thee of these things what I had in commission, that thou and thy people should be prepared for the sufferings which will come upon them, and yet not without hope of a glorious deliverance. In which hope thou shalt die, and rest from fear or feeling of trouble, till the resurrectio... [ Continue Reading ]