“As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me.
Daniel's spirit nearly vanished because God meant to show him the magnitude of what he was seeing. We ought to reverence such visions rather than treat them coldly. If so great a Prophet felt his mind fail before these mysteries, how much more shall we, who have barely tasted the first rudiments of God's counsel, need to overcome the world and purge ourselves of all human sensation to perceive them at all?
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The visions overwhelmed Daniel, troubling his spirit and exhausting him; yet he pressed toward understanding by asking the attending angel for the true meaning. We must likewise seek by faithful prayer and diligent search to grasp the full sense of what God reveals.
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Commenting on Daniel 7:15-28
The soul was pierced and wounded in its sheath by what Daniel saw. Not the glorious vision of the Son of Man troubled him, but the four beasts, especially that dreadful horn, and the awful judgment scene. What grieved him most was not the spectacle itself but his ignorance of its meaning; what cuts the heart of an inquisitive mind more sharply than a hint of something great, just beyond his grasp?
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