Daniel 8:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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was moved with choler. moved himself, or strove violently with.

choler. bile. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for anger or wrath, which was supposed to be due to excess of bile. Greek, cholos = bile; whence we have "cholera".

none that could, &c. = no deliverer for.

hand. power. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the power put forth by it.

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Daniel 8:7

7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.