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The willful king here, though primarily Antiochus, is antitypically and mainly Antichrist, the seventh head of the seven-headed and ten-horned beast of Rev 13:1-18, and the “beast” of Armageddon (Rev 16:13, Rev 16:16; Rev 19:19). Some identify him with the revived French emperorship, the eighth head of the beast (Rev 17:11), who is to usurp the kingly, as the Pope has the priestly, dignity of Christ - the false Messiah of the Jews, who will “plant his tabernacle between the seas in the holy mountain,” “exalting himself above every god” (2Th 2:4; Rev 13:5, Rev 13:6). This last clause only in part holds good of Antiochus; for though he assumed divine honors, identifying himself with Jupiter Olympius, yet it was for that god he claimed them; still it applies to him as the type.
speak marvelous things against ... God of gods - so Dan 7:25, as to the “little horn,” which seemingly identifies the two (compare Dan 8:25). Antiochus forbade the worship of Jehovah by a decree “marvelous” for its wickedness: thus he was a type of Antichrist. Compare Dan 7:8, “a mouth speaking great things.”
indignation ... accomplished - God’s visitation of wrath on the Jews for their sins (Dan 8:19).
that ... determined - (Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27; Dan 10:21).