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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 7:9 - 7:9
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I beheld till - I continued looking till.
thrones ... cast down - rather, “thrones were placed” [Vulgate and Luther], namely, for the saints and elect angels to whom “judgment is given” (Dan 7:22), as assessors with the Judge. Compare Dan 7:10, “thousand thousands ministered unto Him” (Mat 19:28; Luk 22:30; 1Co 6:2, 1Co 6:3; 1Ti 5:21; Rev 2:26; Rev 4:4). In English Version the thrones cast down are those of the previously mentioned kings who give place to Messiah.
Ancient of days - “The everlasting Father” (Isa 9:6). HE is the Judge here, as The Son does not judge in His own cause, and it is His cause which is the one at issue with Antichrist.
sit - the attitude of a judge about to pass sentence.
white - The judicial purity of the Judge, and of all things round Him, is hereby expressed (Rev 1:14).
wheels - as Oriental thrones move on wheels. Like the rapid flame, God’s judgments are most swift in falling where He wills them (Eze 1:15, Eze 1:16). The judgment here is not the last judgment, for then there will be no beast, and heaven and earth shall have passed away; but it is that on Antichrist (the last development of the fourth kingdom), typical of the last judgment: Christ coming to substitute the millennial kingdom of glory for that of the cross (Rev 17:12-14; Rev 19:15-21; Rev 11:15).