Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel 8:24
Not by his own power] This rendering may mean 'by God's permission,' or, 'by craft rather than force.' But RM has, 'not with his' (Alexander's) 'power,' as in Daniel 8:22. Mighty] RV 'mighty ones.'
Not by his own power] This rendering may mean 'by God's permission,' or, 'by craft rather than force.' But RM has, 'not with his' (Alexander's) 'power,' as in Daniel 8:22. Mighty] RV 'mighty ones.'
Verse Daniel 8:24. _BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER_] The strength of the other kingdoms consisted in themselves; but the Roman empire, as a _horn_ or _kingdom_ of the _goat_, was _not mighty by its own pow...
AND HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY - He shall be a powerful monarch. Though not as mighty as Alexander, yet his conquests of Egypt and other places show that he deserved to be numbered among the mighty kin...
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...
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...
NOT BY HIS OWN POWER. We are not told here who is the giver of the power, but we are not left in ignorance. Revelation 13:2, and 2 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:10, are clear on this point....
_his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power_ but rather, so it is implied in this rendering, by the permission of God (Häv., Hitz.). The rendering NOT BY HIS POWER (but rather by intrigues) i...
A fuller description of the character and policy of Antiochus Epiphanes....
Daniel seeks to know the meaning of the vision, which is imparted to him, as in Daniel 7:16 ff., by an angel. 15 THAT I _sought_ TO UNDERSTAND (it), AND, _behold_, &c. cf. Daniel 7:19. _there_ WAS ST...
The explanation of the vision....
HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY, &C.— This part of the prophesy can no where be so justly applied as to the Romans. With them it quadrates exactly, and with none of the other horns or kingdoms of the goat....
c. GRIEVOUS TIMES AND RETRIBUTION TEXT: Daniel 8:18-27 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. 19 And he...
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGH...
8:24 practise, (n-23) See ver. 12. saints. (o-35) Or 'holy ones;' _ Kodesh_ . see Psalms 89:7 ....
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...
NOT BY HIS OWN POWER. — Not might, but cunning, will cause his success. (Comp. 1MMalachi 1:10, &c.) Thus his destructive powers become astonishing. THE MIGHTY. — No special individuals are pointed ou...
וְ עָצַ֤ם כֹּחֹו֙ וְ לֹ֣א בְ כֹחֹ֔ו
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...
GOD'S DELIVERANCE IS SURE Daniel 8:15-27 It does not fall within our province to go into the various fulfillments which have been assigned to the predictions of this chapter-one to the time of the Ma...
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...
And his power shall be mighty, but not (i) by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the (k) mighty and the holy people. (i) That is, not...
_By. Hebrew: "not to his (Alexander's) strength." (ver. 22.) Epiphanes conquered Egypt and the Jews: but the former had an infant king, and the latter were unprovided. He shewed more cunning than prow...
Who this fierce king points at, or what awful indignation is to take place at the time, when the latter kingdom shall come, and the transgressions are come to the full; I presume not to say. But one s...
After the angel had explained the Grecian monarchy, he records the future origin of a king who should be _hard of face _Without the slightest doubt, he implies the iniquity of Antiochus by this phrase...
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...
AND HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY, BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER,.... He should possess a large kingdom, and that should be increased by conquests: BUT NOT IN HIS POWER s, the power of Alexander; he should no...
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. Ver. 24. _Not by his own...
_And his power shall be mighty_ His power shall increase more and more, namely, in Judea; _but not by his own power_ This shall not be owing so much to himself, as to the wickedness and factions among...
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, rather on account of his cunning dissimulation, with the permission of God; AND HE SHALL DESTROY WONDERFULLY, so that men would be astonished a...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
HOLY PEOPLE: _ Heb._ people of the holy ones...
15-27 The eternal Son of God stood before the prophet in the appearance of a man, and directed the angel Gabriel to explain the vision. Daniel's fainting and astonishment at the prospect of evils he...
NOT BY HIS OWN POWER; not by any heroic deeds, or truly regal qualities, but by making use of the Jewish factions, and also through the Divine permission, and commission given him to punish a backslid...
Daniel 8:24 power H3581 mighty H6105 (H8804) power H3581 destroy H7843 (H8686) fearfully H6381 (H8737) prosper...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:15 The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that the vision concerns the future of the region, which God rules for his purposes. The vision is given to prepare God’s people for the...
_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...
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...
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...
Daniel 11:31; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 8:10; Daniel 8:12;...
Not by his own power — Not by any heroick deeds, but by making use of the Jewish factions, through the divine commission to punish a backsliding nation; and by means of Eumenes and Attalus, by whose h...