But go thou thy way till the end [be]: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Ver. 13. But go thou thy way.] Here Daniel to his great comfort hath a fair and favourable dismission out of this life before those great clashings and confusions should come which had been foreshown to him. So Augustine and Pareus died a little before Hippo and Heidelberg were taken.
Till the end be.] Whenever it shall be, sooner or later, thou shalt be sure to awake out of the dust of death unto everlasting life. as Dan 12:2 Yea, thou shalt "shine as the stars for ever and ever." Dan 12:3 All that thou hast to do now is, to prepare for such an end, and to wait till thy change shall come, comforting thyself against death with the hope of a blessed resurrection.
For thou shalt rest.] Thy soul shall rest in Abraham's bosom, thy body in the grave as in a bed of down, until the resurrection of the just. Mors aerumnarum requies rest from death of afliction, was Chaucer's motto.
And stand in the lot,] i.e., In thine own order, 1Co 15:23 and in that degree of heavenly glory which shall be given thee as thy lot - in allusion to the promised land, divided among the Israelites by lot - and as the reward of a faithful prophet, instrumental to the good of many, who shall bless God for thee throughout all eternity.
“ Ipse quidem studui bene de pietate mereri:
Sed quicquid potui, gratia, Christe, tun est.
Quid sum? Nil: Quis sum? Nullus: Sed gratia Christi
Quod sum, quod vivo, quodque laboro, facit. ”