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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 11:24 - 11:24
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peaceably - literally, “unexpectedly”; under the guise of friendship he seized Ptolemy Philometer.
he shall do that which his fathers have not done - His predecessors, kings of Syria, had always coveted Egypt, but in vain: he alone made himself master of it.
scatter among them ... prey - among his followers (1 Maccabees 1:19).
forecast his devices against ... strongholds - He shall form a studied scheme for making himself master of the Egyptian fortresses. He gained them all except Alexandria, which successfully resisted him. Retaining to himself Pelusium, he retired to Judea, where, in revenge for the joy shown by the Jews at the report of his death, which led them to a revolt, he subdued Jerusalem by storm or stratagem.
for a time - His rage shall not be for ever; it is but for a time limited by God. Calvin makes “for a time” in antithesis to “unexpectedly,” in the beginning of the verse. He suddenly mastered the weaker cities: he had to “forecast his plans” more gradually (“for a time”) as to how to gain the stronger fortresses.