In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
God shows the Four Monarchies to steel the faithful against despair as kingdoms convulse the world. This vision particularly prepares believers to endure the terrible tyranny of Antiochus, which this chapter treats.
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Daniel solemnly attests: the vision came to him, even to him. Foreseeing the fall of kingdoms hereafter will steady us against the upheavals in our own day, for what is done shall be done again.
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Commenting on Daniel 8:1-14
The vision comes now in Hebrew, not Chaldee, since from here forward Daniel writes of the Church and people of God in later times rather than the Chaldeans. This shift marks the transition from kingdoms past to kingdoms yet to come.
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