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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 9:26 - 9:26
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after threescore and two weeks - rather, the threescore and two weeks. In this verse, and in Dan 9:27, Messiah is made the prominent subject, while the fate of the city and sanctuary are secondary, being mentioned only in the second halves of the verses. Messiah appears in a twofold aspect, salvation to believers, judgment on unbelievers (Luk 2:34; compare Mal 3:1-6; Mal 4:1-3). He repeatedly, in Passion week, connects His being “cut off” with the destruction of the city, as cause and effect (Mat 21:37-41; Mat 23:37, Mat 23:38; Luk 21:20-24; Luk 23:28-31). Israel might naturally expect Messiah’s kingdom of glory, if not after the seventy years’ captivity, at least at the end of the sixty-two weeks; but, instead of that, shall be His death, and the consequent destruction of Jerusalem.
not for himself - rather, “there shall be nothing to Him” [Hengstenberg]; not that the real object of His first coming (His spiritual kingdom) should be frustrated; but the earthly kingdom anticipated by the Jews should, for the present, come to naught, and not then be realized. Tregelles refers the title, “the Prince” (Dan 9:25), to the time of His entering Jerusalem on an ass’s colt, His only appearance as a king, and six days afterwards put to death as “King of the Jews.”
the people of the prince - the Romans, led by Titus, the representative of the world power, ultimately to be transferred to Messiah, and so called by Messiah’s title, “the Prince”; as also because sent by Him, as His instrument of judgment (Mat 22:7).
end thereof - of the sanctuary. Tregelles takes it, “the end of the Prince,” the last head of the Roman power, Antichrist.
with a flood - namely, of war (Psa 90:5; Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8; Isa 28:18). Implying the completeness of the catastrophe, “not one stone left on another.”
unto the end of the war - rather, “unto the end there is war.”
determined - by God’s decree (Isa 10:23; Isa 28:22).