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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 8:10 - 8:10
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great, even to ... host of heaven - explained in Dan 8:24, “the mighty and holy people,” that is, the Jews (Dan 7:21) and their priests (compare Isa 24:21). The Levites’ service is called “a warfare” (Num 8:24, Num 8:25, Margin). Great civil and religious powers are symbolized by “stars” (Mat 24:29). See 1 Maccabees 1:25, etc.; 1 Maccabees 2:35, etc.; 1 Maccabees 5:2, 12, 13. Tregelles refers “stars” to those Jews whose portion from God is heavenly glory (Dan 12:3), being believers in Him who is above at God’s right hand: not the blinded Jews.
cast ... stars to the ground - So Babel, as type of Antichrist, is described (Isa 14:13, Isa 14:14), “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.” Compare Rev 12:4; 2 Maccabees 9:10, as to Antiochus.