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DANIEL CHAPTER 10
Daniel, having humbled himself, seeth a glorious vision, and is troubled with fear, Dan_10:1-9. An angel comforteth him, and, telling him of the opposition of the prince of Persia, the assistance he had from Michael, and the coming in of the prince of Grecia, promiseth him further information, Dan_10:10-21.
This fell out in the thirty-first year, which was the last year of the kingdom of Persia, but the third year after his seizure and monarchy of Babylon; indeed it is said, Dan_1:21, that Daniel continued to the first year of Cyrus, i.e. in his place of honour, but he lived much longer.
A thing was revealed unto Daniel; revealed by an angel from heaven, not in a dream, or in any more obscure and uncertain way, but plainly. This chapter is but a general preface to what is more particularly declared in the next chapter.
Belteshazzar: by this name Daniel was famous among many people, and they took notice of him by his honourable place, name, and prophecy.
The thing was true; both in the matter, and that which was truly to come to pass, not feigned, nor a bare conjecture, hman it was truth. The time appointed was long, i.e. for three hundred years’ space, as was said, Dan_8:26, or to the end of Antiochus’s persecution, or of the world, Dan_12:2.
And he understood the thing and the vision. This is doubled, to beget the greater credit, and assurance of the truth of it.