Daniel 12:1

CHAPTER XII

The proper conclusion to the great revolutions predicted in

this and the following chapters is the general resurrection,

of which the beginning of this chapter (if to be literally

understood) gives some intimation, 1-3.

Daniel is then commanded to shut up the words and to seal the

book to the time of the end, 4;

and is informed of the three grand symbolical periods of a

time, times, and a half, twelve hundred and ninety days and

thirteen hundred and thirty-five days, 4-12;

at the end of the last of which Daniel shall rest and stand

in his lot, 13.

It is generally thought by commentators that the termination

of the last period is the epoch of the FIRST resurrection.

See Daniel 20:4; Daniel 20:5.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII

Verse Daniel 12:1. And at that time Michael shall stand up] Michael the archangel, as has already been observed, was ever reputed the guardian of the Jewish people.

Every one that shall be found written in the book] All that truly fear, love, and obey the Lord, On the phrase, "written in the book, the book of life," c., see the passages in the margin, and the notes on those passages.