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Verse Daniel 8:24. _BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER_] The strength of the
other kingdoms consisted in themselves; but the Roman empire, as a
_horn_ or _kingdom_ of the _goat_, was _not mighty by its own pow...
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AND HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY - He shall be a powerful monarch. Though
not as mighty as Alexander, yet his conquests of Egypt and other
places show that he deserved to be numbered among the mighty kin...
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CHAPTER 8 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT
_ 1. The vision (Daniel 8:1)_
2. The interpretation of the vision (Daniel 8:15)
Daniel 8:1. Beginning with this chapter to the end of the book
prophecy will lead us...
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DANIEL 8. THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT. This chapter gives an
account of another vision which came to Daniel in Shushan. Near the
river Ulai a ram with two horns is seen pushing invincibly we...
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NOT BY HIS OWN POWER. We are not told here who is the giver of the
power, but we are not left in ignorance. Revelation 13:2, and 2
Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:10, are clear on this point....
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_his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power_ but rather, so
it is implied in this rendering, by the permission of God (Häv.,
Hitz.). The rendering NOT BY HIS POWER (but rather by intrigues) i...
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A fuller description of the character and policy of Antiochus
Epiphanes....
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The explanation of the vision....
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Daniel seeks to know the meaning of the vision, which is imparted to
him, as in Daniel 7:16 ff., by an angel.
15 THAT I _sought_ TO UNDERSTAND (it), AND, _behold_, &c. cf. Daniel
7:19.
_there_ WAS ST...
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HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY, &C.— This part of the prophesy can no
where be so justly applied as to the Romans. With them it quadrates
exactly, and with none of the other horns or kingdoms of the goat....
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c. GRIEVOUS TIMES AND RETRIBUTION
TEXT: Daniel 8:18-27
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Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face
toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
19
And he...
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And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall
destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall
destroy the mighty and the holy people.
HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGH...
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8:24 practise, (n-23) See ver. 12. saints. (o-35) Or 'holy ones;' _
Kodesh_ . see Psalms 89:7 ....
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NOT BY HIS OWN POWER] This rendering may mean 'by God's permission,'
or, 'by craft rather than force.' But RM has, 'not with his'
(Alexander's) 'power,' as in Daniel 8:22. MIGHTY] RV 'mighty ones.'...
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THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT
In the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems
to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa (Daniel 8:1). He sees a
two-homed ram which behaves ag...
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THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD
DANIEL
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 8
V1 In the third year that King Belshazzar ruled Babylon, I, Daniel,
had another dream. V2 In my dream, I saw myself in the castle at...
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NOT BY HIS OWN POWER. — Not might, but cunning, will cause his
success. (Comp. 1MMalachi 1:10, &c.) Thus his destructive powers
become astonishing.
THE MIGHTY. — No special individuals are pointed ou...
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וְ עָצַ֤ם כֹּחֹו֙ וְ לֹ֣א בְ כֹחֹ֔ו
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THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT
This vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of
Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the date,
since it is almost exclusively occupied with t...
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GOD'S DELIVERANCE IS SURE
Daniel 8:15-27
It does not fall within our province to go into the various
fulfillments which have been assigned to the predictions of this
chapter-one to the time of the Ma...
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Two years later, in the third year of king Belshazzar's reign, another
vision came to Daniel. It was of a ram with two horns pushing
westward, northward, and southward. As Daniel watched, a he goat
at...
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And his power shall be mighty, but not (i) by his own power: and he
shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall
destroy the (k) mighty and the holy people.
(i) That is, not...
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_By. Hebrew: "not to his (Alexander's) strength." (ver. 22.) Epiphanes
conquered Egypt and the Jews: but the former had an infant king, and
the latter were unprovided. He shewed more cunning than prow...
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Who this fierce king points at, or what awful indignation is to take
place at the time, when the latter kingdom shall come, and the
transgressions are come to the full; I presume not to say. But one
s...
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After the angel had explained the Grecian monarchy, he records the
future origin of a king who should be _hard of face _Without the
slightest doubt, he implies the iniquity of Antiochus by this phrase...
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Chapter 8 gives details of that which takes place from another side of
Judea, with reference to the Jews. The two empires of Persia and
Greece, or of the East, which succeeded that of Babylon under wh...
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AND HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY, BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER,.... He should
possess a large kingdom, and that should be increased by conquests:
BUT NOT IN HIS POWER s, the power of Alexander; he should no...
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And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall
destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall
destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Ver. 24. _Not by his own...
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_And his power shall be mighty_ His power shall increase more and
more, namely, in Judea; _but not by his own power_ This shall not be
owing so much to himself, as to the wickedness and factions among...
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And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, rather on
account of his cunning dissimulation, with the permission of God; AND
HE SHALL DESTROY WONDERFULLY, so that men would be astonished a...
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THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
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HOLY PEOPLE:
_ Heb._ people of the holy ones...
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15-27 The eternal Son of God stood before the prophet in the
appearance of a man, and directed the angel Gabriel to explain the
vision. Daniel's fainting and astonishment at the prospect of evils he...
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NOT BY HIS OWN POWER; not by any heroic deeds, or truly regal
qualities, but by making use of the Jewish factions, and also through
the Divine permission, and commission given him to punish a
backslid...
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Daniel 8:24 power H3581 mighty H6105 (H8804) power H3581 destroy H7843
(H8686) fearfully H6381 (H8737) prosper...
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CONTENTS: The ram and rough goat vision, and its interpretation.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Gabriel, Daniel, Belshazzar, anti-Christ.
CONCLUSION: Out from the kingdoms of the last days a king of fierc...
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Daniel 8:2. _At Shushan in the palace._ Some think that Daniel was now
ambassador at the Persian court. The _Ulai_ or Eulæus, is a great and
navigable river which watered Ecbatana, capital of Media, a...
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_Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before
the river a ram which had two horns._
THE WORLD-POWERS AND ISRAEL
A glance at the particulars in this vision is enough to satisfy...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:1 In this next vision, Daniel sees what is
to come of the Medo-Persian Empire, Alexander the Great’s empire,
and the Hellenistic empires that succeed it. The upheavals to come...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:15 The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that
the vision concerns the future of the region, which God rules for his
purposes. The vision is given to prepare God’s people for the...
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_HOMILETICS_
SECT. XXVIII.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, OR THE SYRIAN LITTLE HORN (Chap.
Daniel 8:1)
This chapter presents to us another vision of Daniel vouchsafed to him
in the reign of Belshazzar, but two...
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EXPOSITION
DANIEL 8:1
THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT
This chapter marks the change from Aramaic to_ _Hebrew. The character
of the chapter is like that which immediately precedes it. It
consists, like it, o...
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Now two years later:
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared
unto me, even as unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at
the first (Daniel 8:1).
A similar type...
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Not by his own power — Not by any heroick deeds, but by making use
of the Jewish factions, through the divine commission to punish a
backsliding nation; and by means of Eumenes and Attalus, by whose h...