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to = against.
the Prince of the host. God Himself, the Creator and Ruler of the starry host, verses Dan_10:11 are "difficult" only if Antiochus Epiphanes is assumed to fulfil them. There is no difficulty arising from "the state of the text".
Prince = Ruler. Hebrew. sar. See note on Dan_10:13.
by him . . . was taken: or, it took away from Him: i.e. God.
daily sacrifice = the continual [burnt offering]: i.e. the morning and evening sacrifice (Num_28:3. 1Ch_16:40. 2Ch_29:7). This belongs to the time of the end, and was not fulfilled by Antiochus. His career was a foreshadowing of it, to show that the fulfillment will yet be exhausted by him who is "the little horn". See App-90; and note all the references there given (Dan_8:11, Dan_8:12, Dan_8:13; Dan_9:27; Dan_11:31; Dan_12:11). Reference to Pentateuch (Exo_29:38. Num_28:3). App-92.