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Verse Daniel 8:7. _AND BRAKE HIS TWO HORNS_] Subdued Persia and
Media; sacked and burnt the royal city of _Persepolis_, the capital of
the Persian empire, and, even in its _ruins_, one of the wonders...
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AND I SAW HIM, COME CLOSE UNTO THE RAM - The ram standing on the banks
of the Ulai, and in the very heart of the empire. This representation
is designed undoubtedly to denote that the Grecian power wo...
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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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WAS MOVED WITH CHOLER. moved himself, or strove violently with.
CHOLER. bile. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6,
for anger or wrath, which was supposed to be due to excess of bile....
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A he-goat, with a conspicuous horn between its eyes, appearing from
the west, attacked the ram, and beat it down to the ground. The empire
of the Greeks; the horn (cf. Daniel 8:21) being Alexander the...
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The collapse of the Persian power before Alexander, especially in the
two great defeats of Issus and Arbela.
_was moved with choler_ an effective rendering: so Daniel 11:11. The
Heb. is lit. _embitte...
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HE CAME TO THE RAM, &C.— In these two verses we have an account of
the Grecians overthrowing the Persian empire. The ram had before,
Daniel 8:4 _pushed westward;_ and the Persians, in the reign of Dar...
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CHAPTER EIGHT
II. LOCKING HORNSDaniel 8:1-27
a. THE GOAT AND THE RAM
TEXT: Daniel 8:1-8
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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared
unto me, even unto me, Daniel, after...
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And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler
against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was
no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him dow...
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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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וּ רְאִיתִ֞יו מַגִּ֣יעַ ׀ אֵ֣צֶל הָ
אַ֗יִל 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 I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler
against him, and (h) smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there
was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him...
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_Hand. He routed all the forces of his enemy (Haydock) at the
Granicus, at Issus; and at Gaugamela, (Calmet) or Arbela, Darius
escaped, but was slain by his own servants. (Haydock) --- The clemency
of...
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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 God shews to his Prophet the victory of Alexander, by which he
subdued almost the whole east. Although he encountered many nations in
battle, and especially the Indians, yet the name of the Persi...
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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 I SAW HIM COME CLOSE UNTO THE RAM,.... Though the distance between
Greece and Persia was very great, and many rivers and mountains in the
way, which seemed impassable; Alexander got over them all,...
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_And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler
against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was
no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him dow...
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_And he came to the ram that had two horns_, &c. “The ram had before
_pushed westward_, and the Persians, in the reign of Darius Hystaspes
and Xerxes, had poured down with great armies into Greece; bu...
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And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler
against him, with sudden, explosive anger, AND SMOTE THE RAM, in a
fierce overthrow, AND BRAKE HIS TWO HORNS; AND THERE WAS NO POWER...
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THE VISION ITSELF...
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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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BRAKE HIS TWO HORNS: Artaxerxes Mnemon, by aiding Cyrus against him
and then Darius Codomanus; these are the two horns, or the Medes and
Persians. CAST HIM DOWN TO THE GROUND, AND STAMPED UPON HIM; he...
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‘And he came to the ram which had two horns, which I saw standing
before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. And I saw
him come close to the ram, and he was full of rage against him, a...
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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 8:7 HE WAS ENRAGED. Alexander’s father was
king of Macedonia and brought all of Greece under his control by 336
B.C. Alexander was only 20 when his father was murdered, but he
co...
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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 11:11; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 8:4; Joshua 8:20; Leviticus 26:37...