Daniel 10:1

CHAPTER X

This and the two following chapters give an account of Daniel's

last vision, wherein the succession of the Persian and Grecian

monarchies is described, together with the wars that should

take place between Syria and Egypt under the latter monarchy.

The last part of the vision (from Daniel 11:36)

seems to relate chiefly to the persecutions of the Church in

the times of Antichrist, till it be purified from all its

pollutions; after which will follow that glorious kingdom of

the saints spoken of in the seventh and eighth chapters. This

chapter begins with an account of Daniel's fasting and

humiliation, 1-3.

Then we have a description of the Divine person who appeared to

the prophet, not unlike him who appeared to the apostle in the

isle of Patmos, 4-21. See Revelation 1:10.

NOTES ON CHAP. X

Verse Daniel 10:1. In the third year of Cyrus] Which answers to the first year of Darius the Mede.

The time appointed was long] וצבא גדול vetsaba gadol, but the warfare long; there will be many contentions and wars before these things can be accomplished.