I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
The Prophet corrects himself here: he saw in vision how the little horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them. Many connect this to Antiochus Epiphanes, who was indeed ferociously bent on erasing the God of Israel and interrupted the Temple worship for three and a half years. Yet this reading strains the text; many tyrants assailed God's people with equal or greater force, so Antiochus alone does not fit what Daniel describes.
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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
This is no earthly king like Antiochus or Titus, but antichrist, the pope of Rome. The popes waged war on the Waldenses from 1160 onward, slaughtering them in great numbers, and will overcome the witnesses at the end, as Revelation shows. Daniel saw this in his vision and was deeply troubled by it.
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