INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 12 This chapter begins with an account of a time of exceeding great trouble to the people of God, who are comforted with the consideration of Michael the great Prince being on their side, and with a promise of deliverance, with the resurrection of the dead, and the glorious s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AT THAT TIME SHALL MICHAEL STAND UP,.... The Archangel, who has all the angels of heaven under him, and at his command, the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ; who is as God, as the name signifies, truly and really God, and equal in nature, power, and glory, to his divine Father: "he shall stand... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY OF THEM THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE,.... Which is not to be understood in a figurative and metaphorical, sense, as by R. Jeshuah the Jew, Porphyry the Heathen, and by some Christian writers; neither of the deliverance of the Jews from the troubles of Antiochus, or their... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT BE WISE SHALL SHINE AS THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FIRMAMENT,.... That are wise, not in things natural and civil, but in things spiritual; who are wise unto salvation; that are wise to know themselves, their state and condition by nature; their impurity and impotence; the insufficiency of th... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOU, O DANIEL, SHUT UP THE WORDS,.... Of the book, in which he had wrote the visions and prophecies delivered to him: this he is bid to "shut up", to keep it from the common and profane people, who would only burlesque it; and to keep it to himself, as a peculiar treasure committed to his care;... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN I DANIEL LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE STOOD OTHER TWO,.... Other two angels, besides the man clothed with linen, Daniel 12:6 or rather besides the angel who had given Daniel the long account of things that were to come to pass, in the preceding chapter, and the beginning of this; whom Daniel, bei... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE SAID TO THE MAN CLOTHED WITH LINEN,.... One of the angels on one side of the bank of the river spoke to Christ, who appeared in a human form, as a presage of his future incarnation; and as clothed in linen, expressive of his priestly office, and of his purity and holiness, which qualified hi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHICH WAS UPON THE WATERS OF THE RIVER,.... Christ, as he appeared in a human form, and as the High Priest our profession, and as the Mediator that has power over all flesh; so he pronounced articulate sounds with a human voice, and so loud, clear, and distinct,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD, BUT UNDERSTOOD NOT,.... Daniel heard what Christ said, in answer to the angel, but he did not understand the meaning of it, which he ingenuously confesses; he did not understand what was meant by "time", and "times", and "half a time"; what kind of time this was, and when and how it wou... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, GO THY WAY, DANIEL,.... About thy business; attend to civil affairs, the affairs in which he was concerned in the king's court, and ask no more questions concerning this matter; but be content with the prophecies that have been delivered to thee, and with what knowledge thou hast of the... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY SHALL BE PURGED, AND MADE WHITE, AND TRIED,.... Though Christ does not give, in plain, clear, and explicit terms, an answer to the above question, when, and how, and what would be the end of the church's troubles and afflictions; yet he here points out the use of them, which for the present sho... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FROM THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY,.... This is in part an answer to the above questions, as they relate to the end of things: some dates are given, by which it might in general be known when and how these things would end: and these dates begin with the removal of the da... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED IS HE THAT WAITETH, AND COMETH TO THE ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIVE AND THIRTY DAYS. Which is an addition of forty five days or years more, beginning at the end of one thousand two hundred and ninety, and make up this sum; during which time the vials will be poured out upon all the antichr... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GO THOU THY WAY TILL THE END BE,.... Prepare for death and expect to be under the power of it, to lie in the grave, till the end of the world, until the resurrection morn: FOR THOU SHALT REST; from all toil and labour, from all sin and sorrow; his body in the grave, his soul in the bosom of Chr... [ Continue Reading ]