The angel Gabriel, in this chapter, performs his promise made to Daniel in the foregoing chapter, that he would “show him what should befal his people in the latter days,” according to that which was “written in the scriptures of truth:” very particularly does he here foretel the succession of the…

Here, 1. The angel Gabriel lets Daniel know the good service he has done to the Jewish nation : ” In the first year of Darius the Mede, who destroyed Babylon and released the Jews out of that house of bondage, I stood a strength and fortress to him, that is, I was instrumental to protect him, and…

Here are foretold, I. The rise and power of two great kingdoms out of the remains of Alexander’s conquests, Dan. 11:5. 1. The kingdom of Egypt, which was made considerable by Ptolemæus Lagus, one of Alexander’s captains, whose successors were, from him, called the Lagidæ.

All this is a prophecy of the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes, the little horn spoken of before a sworn enemy to the Jewish religion, and a bitter persecutor of those that adhered to it.