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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 11:29 - 11:29
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At the time appointed - “the time” spoken of in Dan 11:27.
return - his second open invasion of Egypt. Ptolemy Philometer, suspecting Antiochus’ designs with Physcon, hired mercenaries from Greece. Whereupon Antiochus advanced with a fleet and an army, demanding the cession to him of Cyprus, Pelusium, and the country adjoining the Pelusiac mouth of the Nile.
it shall not be as the former - not successful as the former expedition. Popilius Loenas, the Roman ambassador, met him at Eleusis, four miles from Alexandria, and presented him the decree of the senate; on Antiochus replying that he would consider what he was to do, Popilius drew a line round him with a rod and said, “I must have a reply to give to the senate before you leave this circle.” Antiochus submitted, and retired from Egypt; and his fleets withdrew from Cyprus.
or as the latter - that mentioned in Dan 11:42, Dan 11:43 [Tregelles]. Or, making this the third expedition, the sense is “not as the first or as the second” expeditions [Piscator]. Rather “not as the former, so shall be this latter” expedition [Grotius].