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Verse Daniel 8:10. _THE HOST OF HEAVEN_] The _Jewish hierarchy_. The
_stars_, the _priests_ and _Levites_. The _powers_ or _host of heaven_
are probably intended by our Lord, Matthew 24:29, to signify...
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AND IT WAXED GREAT - It became very powerful. This was eminently true
of Antiochus, after having subdued Egypt, etc.
EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN - Margin, against. The Hebrew word (עד
_‛__ad_) means “t...
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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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EVEN TO. as far as.
HOST. stars. Compare Revelation 12:4.
OF THE HOST AND OF THE STARS. Figure of speech _Hendiadys_ (App-6),
for emphasis. the starry host.
STAMPED UPON THEM. trampled them under fo...
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Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), and his assaults upon the religion
of the Jews (cf. Daniel 8:23)....
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The horn -waxed great," in the vision, not only over the surface of
the earth (Daniel 8:9); it even towered up to heaven, struck and
hurled down to the earth some of the stars, and then trampled
contu...
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OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN, &C.— There are two ways
of expounding this prophesy of the _little horn;_ either by
understanding it with the generality of interpreters, both Jewish and
C...
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b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE
TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17
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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...
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And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some
of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
IT WAXED GREAT, EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN - explained , "He...
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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 HOST OF HEAVEN] the stars, symbolising in Daniel the righteous
Israelites (Daniel 12:3), some of whom were slain by Antiochus: see
Daniel 8:24; Daniel 1Ma 1:24, 1Ma 1:30, 1Ma 1:57, 1Ma 1:63)....
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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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THE HOST OF HEAVEN. — Probably meaning the stars, as Jeremiah 33:22,
but in a metaphorical sense indicating the people of Israel. (Comp.
Exodus 7:4; Numbers 24:17.) The actions of Antiochus, predicted...
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וַ תִּגְדַּ֖ל עַד ־צְבָ֣א הַ
שָּׁמָ֑יִם וַ
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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 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...
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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 it waxed great, [even] to the (p) host of heaven; and it cast down
[some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon
them.
(p) Antiochus raged against the elect of God, and trea...
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_Even unto, or against the strength of heaven. So are here called the
army of the Jews, the people of God, (Challoner) and particularly the
teachers. Many priests gave way to idolatry. (1 Machabees i....
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The principal feature of this history, in the battle of rams and
he-goats, (meaning the kings of the earth), is what is said of this
creature magnifying himself against the Prince of the host, even Je...
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Here Daniel continues the vision which he had received. We have
already shewn he object of the Almighty to be the preparation of the
faithful to bear serious calamities, because nothing new or unexpec...
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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 IT WAXED GREAT, EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN,.... The people of the
Jews, the army of the living God, the church militant, among whom were
many of the citizens of heaven, whose names are written the...
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And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast down
[some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon
them.
Ver. 10. _And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven._...
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_And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven_ By the _host of
heaven_, seems to be here meant the Jewish priesthood, so called from
their continual attendance on God's service in the temple, as the...
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THE VISION ITSELF...
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And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven, to the congregation of
the Lord's people, for the Jews were at that time representatives of
the Lord's Church on earth; AND IT CAST DOWN SOME OF THE HOS...
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TO THE HOST:
Or, against the host...
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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...
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EVEN TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN, i.e. the church of God militant, who
worship the God of heaven, who are citizens of heaven, whose names are
written in heaven; and among these chiefly the priests, and nobl...
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‘And out of one of them came a horn from smallness which grew
exceedingly great towards the south, and towards the east and towards
the beauty (the desirable). And it grew great even to the host of
he...
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AND IT WAXED GREAT
This passage (Daniel 8:10) is confessedly the most difficult in
prophecy, a difficulty increased by the present state of the text.
Historically this was fulfilled in and by Antioch...
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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 8:9 A LITTLE HORN grows out of one of the four
horns and expands his realm. Most scholars identify this little horn
as Antiochus IV Epiphanes (ruled 175–164 B.C.). Antiochus IV t...
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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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Daniel 11:28; Daniel 11:30; Daniel 11:33; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 8:24;...
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The host of heaven — The church of God militant, who worship the God
of heaven, who are citizens of heaven, whose names are written in
heaven; and among these the priests, and champions, who were as s...