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Daniel 8:13-14

A dialogue between two angels, which is overheard by Daniel, and the object of which is evidently to inform Daniel how long the suspension of the daily sacrifices and the desecration of the Temple are to continue.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 13. _ONE SAINT SPEAKING, AND ANOTHER SAINT SAID_] One _angel_ asked another how long the sanctuary was to be trodden down?...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN I HEARD ONE SAINT SPEAKING - One holy one. The vision was now ended, and the prophet represents himself now as hearing earnest inquiries as to the length of time during which this desolation was...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAINT. holy [one]. An angelic attendant. Compare Daniel 4:13.Deuteronomy 33:2.Job 5:1; Job 15:15.

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HOW LONG SHALL BE THE VISION CONCERNING, &C.— There is no word for _concerning_ in this verse, which may be rendered more properly, _For how long time shall the vision last, the daily sacrifice be tak...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:13 one (d-13) The word denotes a certain unknown person. long (e-17) Or 'Until when.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAINT] RV 'holy one,' angel: see Daniel 4:13. TRANSGRESSION OF DESOLATION] see Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11; Daniel 1Ma 1:54, 1Ma 1:59

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ONE SAINT — _i.e._, an angel, who, however, has not been mentioned before. This part of the vision recalls Daniel 7:16. It is implied that the angels were conversing upon the subject of this awful rev...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֶשְׁמְעָ֥ה אֶֽחָד ־קָדֹ֖ושׁ מְדַבֵּ֑ר וַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S SANCTUARY DISHONORED Daniel 8:1-14 Shushan was the lily palace. There, by the river Ulai, the prophet beheld in vision the attack which would subsequently be made on the Medo-Persian kingdom by...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then I heard one (u) saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain [saint] which spake, How long [shall be] the vision [concerning] the daily [sacrifice], and the transgression of (x) desol...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Another. We do not inquire how the angels explained themselves, or whether they instruct each other. This conversation was for the prophet's information. (Calmet) --- One angel asked the other a ques...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat interesting in this short account; short as it is, of what the Prophet over-heard of this conversation. It shows how attentive ministering spirits are in their office, who are sent f...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here he expresses more clearly, what I formerly said, unfolding God’s intention of consoling and soothing the sorrows of the pious lest they should sink under the severity of their trials, at the sigh...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN I HEARD ONE SAINT SPEAKING,.... An angel, either a created angel, pure and holy in his nature, as Gabriel; or the uncreated Angel Jesus Christ, the Word of God; what he was speaking of is not sai...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain [saint] which spake, How long [shall be] the vision [concerning] the daily [sacrifice], and the transgression of desolation, t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then I heard one saint speaking_ The word _saint_ here is equivalent to _angel:_ see Daniel 4:13. What this saint or angel said, is not expressed; no more than the words spoken by that illustrious pe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VISION ITSELF...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then I heard one saint, one of the Lord's angels, SPEAKING, AND ANOTHER SAINT SAID UNTO THAT CERTAIN SAINT WHICH SPAKE, as they were conversing, the interruption being made in the interest of Daniel,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THAT CERTAIN: The number of secrets, or, the wonderful numberer. _Heb._ Palmoni OF DESOLATION: Or, making desolate...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. Could we foresee the changes that shall be when we are gone, we should...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By the first SAINT is meant a holy angel, by the other is meant Jesus Christ, PALMONI, a NUMBERER OR REVEALER OF SECRETS, a wonderful revealer, ISAIAH 9:6. Of him the angel asks this secret concerning...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 8:13 heard H8085 (H8799) holy H6918 one H259 speaking H1696 (H8764) holy H6918 one H259 said...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will be the vision about the continual things (worship rites) and the transgression that appals (o...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    DESOLATION Seven times in Daniel the "desolation" is spoken of: (1) Of the sanctuary, (Daniel 8:13) fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 175-170. (2) Of the sanctuary, (Daniel 9:17) the condition...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:12 Because of renewed TRANSGRESSION on the part of God’s people, the saints and the temple sacrifices were handed over to Antiochus IV, but only for a limited period: 2,300 eve...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    One saint — That is, one holy angel. How long — How long shall Antiochus continue his vexations against the people and prevent the worship of God? This is, the treading down of the sanctuary, and the...

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