Daniel 8:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. ”

Daniel 8:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And in the latter time of their kingdom - When it shall be drawing to an end. All these powers were ultimately absorbed in the Roman power; and the meaning here is, that taking the time from the...
Daniel 8:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of (h) fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. (h) Noting that this Antioch...
Daniel 8:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Daniel 8:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the latter time of their kingdom, &c . This is. further indication as to the interpretation of this vision. the transgressors . The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "transgressions". Hebre...
Daniel 8:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

And at the end of their reign, when the wicked shall be at their height, one king shall stand By saying at the end of their kingdom, he does not mean to imply the destruction of the four king...
Daniel 8:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. When the transgressors are come t...
Daniel 8:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In the latter time, &c.— The Romans might be said to stand up in the latter time, &c. who saw the end not only of one kingdom, but of all four; who first subdued the kingdom of Macedon an...
Daniel 8:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. In the latter time of the...
Daniel 8:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Vision of the Ram and the He-Goat In the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa ( Daniel 8:1-2 ). He sees a two-homed ram which be...
Daniel 8:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Transgressors ... — When transgressors have filled up the measure of their guilt so as to exceed the limits of God’s mercy, then this event shall take place. The transgressors are the apostate Jews....
Daniel 8:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 wit...
Daniel 8:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Daniel 8:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 a...
Daniel 8:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Daniel 8:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And in the latter time of their kingdom ,.... Toward the close of the kingdom of the four kings that divided Alexander's kingdom; for though they were four distinct kings, and had four separate king...
Daniel 8:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. Ver. 23. And in the latter tim...
Daniel 8:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And in the latter end of their kingdom When their power was diminishing, and the Roman empire beginning to be established in Greece, from whence the Grecian kingdoms in Asia had their origin: for t...
Daniel 8:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Ram and Goat. B. C. 553. 15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Da...
Daniel 8:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the latter time of their kingdom, i.e. when they were come to the height, and beginning to decline. It notes that time when the Romans began to seize part of the Grecian kingdom, by Emilius Prob...
Daniel 8:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors (or, repointed, this could be ‘transgressions') are come to the full, a king of strong countenance, and understanding riddles, will st...
Daniel 8:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS SECT. XXVIII.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, OR THE SYRIAN LITTLE HORN (Chap. Daniel 8:1-27 ) This chapter presents to us another vision of Daniel vouchsafed to him in the reign of Belshazzar,...
Daniel 8:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

king of fierce countenance That is, Antiochus Epiphanes who arose out of Syria, one of the "four kingdoms," B.C. 170.
Daniel 8:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Daniel 8:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 sati...
Daniel 8:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 8:1-27 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...
Daniel 8:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Explanation of the Vision
Daniel 8:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; 1 Timothy 4:1 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 ; Daniel 10:14 ; Daniel 11:21 ; Daniel 11:24 ; Daniel 7:11 ; Daniel 7:20 ; Daniel 7:25 ; Daniel 7:8 ; Daniel 8:25 ; Daniel 8:...
Daniel 8:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In the latter time — When they were come to the height, and beginning to decline. When the transgressors — When the Jews were grown to an excess of wickedness, then God suffered Antiochus to persec...

Daniel 8:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Daniel 8:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Daniel 8:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Daniel 8:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Daniel 8:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Daniel 8:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Daniel 8:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 8:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel 8:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 8:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Daniel 8:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

Daniel 8:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 8:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Daniel 8:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Daniel 8:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daniel 8:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 8:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes