Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 8:23

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23. 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 Luke 18:8 ; 2 Timothy 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 Genesis 15:16 ; Matthew 23:32 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ). of fierce countenance — ( Deuteronomy 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, c. 2 Maccabees 5:24 , &c.). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-24" class="com-number"

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