abominations
(Compare Matthew 24:15).
The expression occurs three times in Daniel. In; (Daniel 9:27); (Daniel 12:11) the reference is to the "Beast," "man of sin"; (2 Thessalonians 2:3); (2 Thessalonians 2:4) and is identical with (Matthew 24:15). In (Daniel 11:31) the reference is to the act of Antiochus Epiphanes, the prototype of the man of sin, who sacrificed a sow upon the altar, and entered the holy of holies.