Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I . . . was sick—through grief at the calamities coming on my people and the Church of God (compare Psalms 102:14).
afterward I . . . did the king's business—He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties of common life.
none understood it—He had heard of kings, but knew not their names; He foresaw the events, but not the time when they were to take place; thereupon he could only feel "astonished," and leave all with the omniscient God [JEROME].
The world powers here recede from view; Israel, and the salvation by Messiah promised to it, are the subject of revelation. Israel had naturally expected salvation at the end of the captivity. Daniel is therefore told, that, after the seventy years of the captivity, seventy times seven must elapse, and that even then Messiah would not come in glory as the Jews might through misunderstanding expect from the earlier prophets, but by dying would put away sin. This ninth chapter (Messianic prophecy) stands between the two visions of the Old Testament Antichrist, to comfort "the wise." In the interval between Antiochus and Christ, no further revelation was needed; therefore, as in the first part of the book, so in the second, Christ and Antichrist in connection are the theme.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Daniel 8:27:
Daniel 11:33
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