Daniel 11:36-39

The presumptuousness and impiety of Antiochus. Many of the older expositors supposed that at this point there was a transition from Antiochus to the future Antichrist, and that Daniel 11:36 related exclusively to the latter; but whatever typical significance might be legitimately considered to attach to the character and career of Antiochus as a whole, it is contrary to all sound principles of exegesis to suppose that, in a continuousdescription, with no indication whatever of a change of subject, part should refer to one person, and part to another, and that -the king" of Daniel 11:36, and -the king of the south" of Daniel 11:45 should be a different king from the one whose doings are described in Daniel 11:21. The fact that traits in the N.T. figure of Antichrist are suggested (apparently) by the description in Daniel 11:36, does not authorize the inference that these verses themselves refer to Antichrist (cf. the Introd. p. xcvii).