Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?”
God meets Daniel's terror with an angel because the prophet is too overcome by fear to ask. This vision is meant to console the faithful lest they despair when an impious tyrant defiles God's own sanctuary, Jupiter's idol set up where God promised His dwelling-place. God shows paternal goodness by inquiring on the Prophet's behalf.
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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
One angel asks another, likely the eternal Word, who knows all secrets that created angels do not, how long this desolation will last. The vision concerns the suspension of sacrifice, the abomination of Jupiter's image defiling the temple, and the trampling of God's people underfoot by Antiochus. When will this transgression end?
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