The spirit of prophecy here returns to that which more immediately concerned Daniel and his royal masters -- the near future of the empire in which he was so great a personage. Four kings were yet to follow in Media-Persia. Then will come Alexander the "mighty king" of Grecia (Daniel 11:3). The div... [ Continue Reading ]
KING Alexander the Great, B.C. 332. See (Daniel 8:5); (Daniel 8:21); (Daniel 8:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUTH That is, "south" of Palestine. Egypt is meant. HIS PRINCES That is, One of Alexander's princes; historically Ptolemy Lagidae. HE SHALL Not the "king of the south" (Ptolemy Lagidae, to whom Egypt was given), but the "king of the north" (Daniel 11:6); Seleucus, to whom Syria was given:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL That is, the descendants and successors of Ptolemy Lagidae and Seleucus, not those very personages. The prediction was fulfilled in the marriage of Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, to Antiochus Theos, third king of Syria, B.C. 285-247.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRANCH OF HER ROOTS Ptolemy Euergetes, brother of Berenice, who invaded Syria as described in (Daniel 11:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HIS SONS (Matthew 11:10); prophetic foreview of the wars of Egypt and Syria, Palestine, (Daniel 11:17); the battleground, B.C. 284-175.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING OF THE NORTH Antiochus the Great, B.C. 198.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAUGHTER OF WOMEN Probably a reference to the marriage of Cleopatra to an Egyptian king, Ptolemy Philometor.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES That is, of Greece. PRINCE FOR HIS OWN That is, Historically on of the Scipios: the power of Rome felt in the East for the first time.... [ Continue Reading ]
A RAISER OF TAXES A reference to the tribute exacted of the son of Antiochus the Great by the Romans.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUTH Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
COME TOWARD THE SOUTH Antiochus Epiphanes' second expedition against Egypt. Stopped by the mandate of Rome, (Daniel 11:30); he turns against the Jews:... [ Continue Reading ]
ABOMINATION This is historic -- the act of Antiochus Epiphanes. (Matthew 24:15) refers to (Daniel 12:11); (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 9:27). _... [ Continue Reading ]
STRONG for example the Maccabees. B.C. 168 and following.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TIME OF THE END Here the prophetic foreview, having traced the history of the two parts of Alexander's empire which had to do with Palestine and the Jews, namely, Syria and Egypt, to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and having described his career, overleaps the centuries to "the time of the en... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL EXALT The Beast. (Daniel 11:36); (Daniel 12:11); (Daniel 7:8); (Revelation 19:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
PALACE (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 11:2). _... [ Continue Reading ]