Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Daniel 10:14
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision [is] for [many] days.
14. And I am come to make thee understand, &c.] cf. Dan 8:16, Dan 9:22; also Dan 9:23 b.
what shall befall thy people in the end of the days ] The sentence seems to be framed on the model of Gen 49:1. On the ‘end (a different word from that occurring in Dan 8:17; Dan 8:19) of the days,’ see on Dan 2:28. Here the expression denotes the age of Antiochus Epiphanes.
for there is yet a vision for the days ] viz. the days just mentioned: a vision, relating to these, remains still to be told. Or, altering the point which indicates the article, for the vision is yet for (many) days: it relates to the ‘end of the days,’ not to the present; cf. Dan 8:17 b, 26 b.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Now I am come to make thee understand … – After these long delays, and after the arrangements have been made necessary to bring about the objects sought by your prayers.
In the latter days – In future times – extending down to the last period of the world. See the notes at Isa 2:2.
For yet the vision is for many days – Extends far into future time. It is probable that the prayer of Daniel referred more particularly to what he desired should soon occur – the restoration of the people to their own land; the angel informs him that the disclosures which he was to make covered a much more extended period, and embraced more important events. So it is often. The answer to prayer often includes much more than we asked for, and the abundant blessings that are conferred, beyond what we supplicate, are vastly beyond a compensation for the delay.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. For yet the vision is for many days.] There are many things which remain yet to be revealed, and the time of their accomplishment is very distant.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Now at last, with much ado, after the contest is over, I am come to give thee understanding touching all the purposes and providences of God relating to his church: this made amends for the delay; this was the comfortable effect of effectual fervent prayer; this was Gods overflowing kindness to his servant Daniel, to certify him by so honourable a messenger as this, that God would not only give him the knowledge of the present times and dispensations towards his church and their enemies, but for a long time after, even four hundred and ninety years, to the coming of the Messias, as he did to David, 2Sa 7:19. By which we learn this solemn truth, that God will never leave himself without witness to his people; but in the worst of times he will afford them sufficient discoveries of his care of them; as he did by this prophecy in those dark days.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. what shall befall thy people inthe latter daysan intimation that the prophecy, besidesdescribing the doings of Antiochus, reaches to the concludingcalamities of Israel’s history, prior to the nation’s fullrestoration at Christ’s comingcalamities of which Antiochus’persecutions were the type.
vision is for many daysthatis, extends far into the future.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Now I am come to make thee to understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days,…. The contest being over with the prince of Persia, and having got an advantage, and carried his point in favour of the Jews; he came directly to Daniel, to inform him of what should befall the people of the Jews in the succeeding monarchies, especially in the times of Antiochus; and even of all that should befall them until the Messiah came, as Aben Ezra rightly interprets it; for the last days generally design the days of the Messiah; see
Ge 49:1:
for yet the vision is for many days; before it will be accomplished; reaching not only to the times of Antiochus, three hundred years after this, but even to the times of antichrist, of whom he was a type; and to the resurrection of the dead, and the end of time, as the two next chapters show; see Hab 2:3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
With this joyful message the angel comes to Daniel, to open up to him what would befall his people in the last time. The punctuation of ( shall befall) is according to (Gen 49:1); the Kethiv has the correct form. as Dan 2:28, the Messianic world-time, in Dan 8:17 is called the time of the end. “For,” the angel adds, “the vision refers, or stretches itself out, to the days.” , with the article, are the days of the ( the latter time), the Messianic world-time. is the revelation which in Dan 10:1 is called and , the following revelation in Daniel 11. Kliefoth is incorrect in thinking on the revelations already given, Daniel 7, 8, 9, to Daniel, regarding which the angel now seeks to bring to him further understanding. For although those revelations stretch out to the last time, and the revelations in Daniel 11 only give further disclosures regarding it, yet neither does the angel who speaks to Daniel here thus represent the matter, nor does the form of the revelation Daniel 10-12, namely, the majestic appearance of the Angel of the Lord, not a common angel-revelation, correspond with this supposition. also cannot, without further definition, refer to those earlier revelations; and the opinion that denotes the understanding, as distinguished from the revelation or proclamation, does not accord with the usual style of Daniel’s language. denotes here, as in Dan 8:16, the interpretation of the vision, which in both cases contains the things which shall befall the people of God in the future. Cf. Dan 9:22, where is used of the announcement of the revelation of God regarding the seventy weeks.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
The angel follows up the same sentiment. He states his arrival for the purpose of predicting to Daniel coming events, and those, too, for a long period of time. He further proves the prayers of Daniel to have been neither vain nor fruitless, as they produced this conflict with the kings of Persia, both father and son. He now brings forward another proof of this, because God wished his Prophet to be instructed in patiently waiting for the arrival of the events, after being made fully aware of the elect people being under God’s care and protection. This he would readily acknowledge from the prophecies of the next chapter. He next adds, at the end of the days By this expression the angel commends God’s grace towards the Prophet, as he was its special minister. His mission was not only to announce to him the occurrences of three or four years, or of any brief period, but he had to extend his predictions over many years, even to the extremity of the days. I willingly refer this period to the renovation of the Church which happened at the advent of Christ. The Scriptures in using the phrase, the last days, or times, always point to the manifestation of Christ, by which the face of the world was renewed. It is exactly similar to the angel saying he would make Daniel fully acquainted with all future events, until the final redemption of the people, when Christ was exhibited for the salvation of his Church. Hence the angel embraces the 490 years of which he had spoken. For Christ’s advent determined the fullness of times, and the subjoined reason suits the passage exceedingly well. The vision is yet for days, says he; thus frigidly some expounders take these words. I feel persuaded that the angel intends to shew how God is now opening future events to his servant, and thus these prophecies become like a lamp ever shining in the Church. The faithful complain in the 74 Psalm (Psa 74:9) of the absence of all signs, because no prophets are left. We see no signs, say they, no Prophet exists among us. This was an indication of God having rejected and deserted them. However faintly the light of his doctrine may shine upon us, the slightest glimmer ought to be sufficient to produce patience and repose. But when all the light of the Word is extinguished, we seem completely enveloped in tartarean darkness. As the Israelites suffered so many afflictions for nearly 500 years, this remedy ought completely to restore them; for when the angel testifies, the vision is yet for days, it means, although God permits his people to be miserably afflicted, yet by this new proof he shews that he had not entirely cast them off. Some vision remained; that is, by the light of prophecy he will always manifest his care for his chosen, and they may even anticipate a happy issue out of all their sorrows. We now understand the angel’s meaning when he says, the vision is yet for days. Prophecies, indeed, ceased soon afterwards, and God no longer sent other prophets to his people, yet their teaching always remained permanent like a finger-post, for in it was completed the whole series of times up to the advent of Christ. His children were never destitute of all necessary consolation; for although there were no prophets surviving who could instruct the people in God’s commands by the living voice, yet Daniel’s teaching flourished for nearly 500 years after his death. It also performed its part in supporting the courage of the pious, and shewing them the firmness of God’s covenant not withstanding all opposition. Although the Church was agitated in a variety of ways, yet God is consistent in all his promises, until the complete redemption of his Church by the advent of his only-begotten Son.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(14) The latter days.Comp. Dan. 2:28; Dan. 8:17. The time is here more narrowly defined as those days, that is, the period when the vision of Daniel 11 shall receive its complete fulfilment. The vision is identical with the thing (Dan. 10:1), or the vision (Dan. 10:16). It must be carefully borne in mind that there is no reference to preceding visions, except so far as the revelation contained in Daniel 11 develops certain details of other visions.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
14. For yet the vision is for many days R.V., “for the vision is yet for many days;” that is, the vision of victory for Israel and her complete deliverance from persecution and affliction reaches into the far distance. Jeremiah prophesied great glory for Israel at the end of the seventy years of captivity; but the perfect fulfillment and consummation of those prophecies will not come until the Messianic age. (See notes Dan 9:22; Dan 9:24.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“Now I am come to make you understand what will befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is as yet for many days.”
The latter days are the days of the fourth empire, commencing from the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, who was outfaced by the power of Rome, and going on to the end of time. But Daniel is assured that it is many days hence. One of the main reasons for Daniel’s visions was to prevent too much being made of the return from exile. Once that failed to mature into what Israel hoped for, and the hopes and expectancy were certainly there as Haggai makes clear, they would read the book of Daniel and recognise hat God had said it would be so.
‘The latter days.’ The phrase first occurs in Gen 49:1 and means in the future beyond the present time. It puts no restriction on the length of the latter days. The only point is that they are some distance away. In Num 22:14 it refers to the future of Moab in terms of their dealings with Israel. In Deu 31:29 it refers to the times after Moses has gone and some time has passed (compare Deu 4:30). In Dan 2:28 it includes the subsequent empires to Nebuchadnezzar’s. Thus it simply refers to the future without limitation.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Dan 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision [is] for [many] days.
Ver. 14. Now I am come. ] As it were with weariness of flight. as Dan 9:21 Comfort will come at length. Heb 10:37
In the latter days.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the latter days. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen 49:1. Num 24:14. Deu 4:30; Deu 31:29). App-92. See note on Dan 2:28. Note the bearing of this on the prophecy itself, given in Dan 11:21 Dan 12:3.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
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Dan 10:14
“Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.”
Daniel was grief stricken over the halting of the work on the city of Jerusalem and God’s temple. He was hoping it would be completed in haste and was severely depressed and mourning because it was not being done. Doubtless Daniel was hoping it would be completed in his lifetime and he was an aged man. Time for him was short and Daniel probably wanted to see the temple and the city finished.
The latter days that this visitor is going to help Daniel understand is the latter days of the Jewish people. Notice the words “thy people” which indicate that this vision is meant for the Israelites of the captivity and no others. None of this vision pertains to anything beyond the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD which marked the end of the Jewish commonwealth of God.
“for yet the vision is for many days”
The heavenly visitor here tells Daniel that the vision is going to cover a long span of time. Daniel had been hoping and praying for the completion of the temple in his lifetime and this news must have been distressing for him.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
in the: Dan 2:28, Gen 49:1, Deu 4:30, Deu 31:21, Isa 2:2, Hos 3:5, Mic 4:1, 2Ti 3:1
the vision: Dan 10:1, Dan 8:26, Dan 12:4, Dan 12:9, Hab 2:3, Heb 2:3
Reciprocal: Num 24:14 – the latter Jer 30:24 – in Jer 48:47 – in the latter Jer 49:39 – in the Eze 12:27 – for Eze 38:16 – it shall be Dan 8:16 – make Dan 8:23 – in the Dan 12:8 – what Act 2:17 – in 1Ti 4:1 – the latter Heb 1:2 – these Heb 9:26 – in
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Dan 10:14. The situation is similar to that described in Dan 9:23, in that Daniel is to have his prayer answered favorably, but is also to be given more information than he had expected. In the present instance, if the prophet was asking for some reassurances of the return of his people to Jerusalem he was granted that consolation. But this inspired messenger was to tell hint of some events in the centuries ahead that would involve these same people of the Jews. Since that vision is for many days, however, the specific predictions will not be given him until the next chapter. But in recognition ot his devotion and concern for the people of God, the messenger was sent to give him the encouragement.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the {k} vision [is] for [many] days.
(k) For even though the Prophet Daniel would end and cease, yet his doctrine would continue until the coming of Christ, for the comfort of his Church.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
The good angel had come to explain to Daniel what would happen to the Jews in the latter days yet future. Daniel had already received some revelation about what lay ahead for the Jews (Dan 8:23-26; Dan 9:24-27). It was evidently this revelation that puzzled him and led to his requesting clarification in prayer (Dan 10:2). What follows in Dan 11:2 to Dan 12:4 is more information on this subject. As in Dan 8:23-26 and Dan 9:24-27, Dan 11:2 to Dan 12:4 contains information about Israel’s fate relative to Antiochus Epiphanes, in the near future, and information about Israel’s fate relative to Antichrist, in the distant future.