In the third year: 426 B.C. (see App-50). Daniel being eighty-seven.
a vision. Like the vision in Daniel 7, this also is complete in itself, but is necessary to contribute its proof of the unity of the book as. whole. This vision (and the rest of the book from here) is written in Hebrew; because its purpose is to show how Gentile dominion (of Daniel 2) specially concerns and affects Israel.
after. Two years after. At the end of the Babylonian empire, for Belshazaar reigned little more than two years.