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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 8:23 - 8:23
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transgressors are come to the full - This does not hold good of the times of Antiochus, but of the closing times of the Christian era. Compare Luk 18:8, and 2Ti 3:1-9, as to the wickedness of the world in general just before Christ’s second coming. Israel’s guilt, too, shall then be at the full, when they who rejected Christ shall receive Antichrist; fulfilling Jesus words, “I am come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive” (compare Gen 15:16; Mat 23:32; 1Th 2:16).
of fierce countenance - (Deu 28:50); one who will spare neither old nor young.
understanding dark sentences - rather, “artifices” [Gesenius]. Antiochus made himself master of Egypt and Jerusalem successively by craft (1 Maccabees 1:30, etc.; 2 Maccabees 5:24, etc.).