So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
For at the time of the end shall be the vision - (so Daniel 8:19, "in the last end of the indignation;" Daniel 11:35-36, "until the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done;" Daniel 11:40). The event being to take place at "the time of the end," makes it likely that the Antichrist ultimately referred to in this chapter (besides the immediate reference to Antiochus) and the one in Daniel 7:8 are one and the same, The objection that the one in Daniel 7:1-28 springs out of the ten divisions of the Roman earth, the fourth kingdom, the one in Daniel 8:1-27 and Daniel 11:1-45 from one of the font divisions of the third kingdom, Greece, is answered thus: The four divisions of the Grecian empire having become parts of the Roman empire, shall at the end form four of its ten final divisions (Tregelles).
However, the origin from one of the four parts of the third kingdom may be limited to Antiochus, the Old Testament Antichrist, the immediate subject of Daniel 8:1-27 and Daniel 11:1-45, while the ulterior typical object of reference in these chapters-namely, the last Antichrist-may belong to one of the ten Roman divisions, not necessarily one formerly of the four of the third kingdom. The event will tell. "The time of the end" may apply to the time of Antiochus. For it is the prophetic phrase for the time of fulfillment, seen always at the end of the prophetic horizon (Genesis 49:1; Numbers 24:14).