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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 7:24 - 7:24
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ten horns - answering to the ten “toes” (Dan 2:41).
out of this kingdom - It is out of the fourth kingdom that ten others arise, whatever exterior territory any of them possess (Rev 13:1; Rev 17:12).
rise after them - yet contemporaneous with them; the ten are contemporaries. Antichrist rises after their rise, at first “little” (Dan 7:8); but after destroying three of the ten, he becomes greater than them all (Dan 7:20, Dan 7:21). The three being gone, he is the eighth (compare Rev 17:11); a distinct head, and yet “of the seven.” As the previous world kingdoms had their representative heads (Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar; Persia, Cyrus; Greece, Alexander), so the fourth kingdom and its Antichrists shall have their evil concentrated in the one final Antichrist. As Antiochus Epiphanes, the Antichrist of the third kingdom in Dan 8:23-25, was the personal enemy of God, so the final Antichrist of the fourth kingdom, his antitype. The Church has endured a pagan and a papal persecution; there remains for her an infidel persecution, general, purifying, and cementing [Cecil]. He will not merely, as Popery, substitute himself for Christ in Christ’s name, but “deny the Father and the Son” (1Jo 2:22). The persecution is to continue up to Christ’s second coming (Dan 7:21, Dan 7:22); the horn of blasphemy cannot therefore be past; for now there is almost a general cessation of persecution.