Daniel 12 - Introduction
_MICHAEL SHALL DELIVER ISRAEL FROM THEIR TROUBLES. DANIEL IS INFORMED OF THE TIMES._ _Before Christ 534._... [ Continue Reading ]
_MICHAEL SHALL DELIVER ISRAEL FROM THEIR TROUBLES. DANIEL IS INFORMED OF THE TIMES._ _Before Christ 534._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE SHALL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE— When the Jews are to be restored, there shall be such calamities as the nations never before experienced since men were formed into civil societies. Tribulations are often mentioned in Scripture, as preceding extraordinary events, see Ezekiel 30:2 and especially... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY—THAT SLEEP—SHALL AWAKE— Though this verse, without all question, primarily refers to some great and future restoration of the Jewish people; yet in a secondary sense, it may well be understood of the resurrection from the dead. _Many_ is here used for _all,_ in the same manner as St. Paul uses... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT BE WISE SHALL SHINE AS THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FIRMAMENT— _And those that have wisely instructed shall shine like the splendour of the firmament:_ or, _as the heavens adorned with the sun and the other glorious lights._ In the Hebrew the first word is the same participle as at chap. Dani... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD THERE STOOD OTHER TWO— Two other angels stood one on each side of the river Hiddekel or Tigris, chap. Daniel 10:4., and were attendants on that superior one who appeared there in so bright and glorious a form. Gabriel had finished his narrative, and what now follows seems added by way of illu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE SAID, &C.— _And I said._ Houbigant. See Daniel 12:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
A TIME, TIMES, AND AN HALF— This signifies three prophetic years and an half, making one thousand two hundred and sixty _prophetic days,_ or one thousand two hundred and sixty _years._ The same time, therefore, is prefixed for the desolation and oppression of the Eastern church, as for the tyranny o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD, BUT I UNDERSTOOD NOT— The prophets did not always receive the interpretation of what was revealed to them. See 1 Peter 1:12. Study and particular application were required, and often an immediate revelation. The evidence which appears to us so clearly in the greater part of the propheci... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY, &C.— The _days_ here mentioned are still prophetic days or years. The _setting up the abomination of desolation_ appears to be a general phrase, and comprehensive of many events. It is applied, Genesis 1:54 to the profanation of the temple... [ Continue Reading ]
TILL THE END BE— _To thy station. Rest and continue in thy lot, till the end of thy days._ It is hereby signified, that Daniel should live in peace and tranquillity till the end of his days; and that the evils which had just been shewn him were yet at a great distance: and it also, probably, signifi... [ Continue Reading ]