Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Here the prophet leaves Asia and Greece and takes up Egypt and Syria, these being in continual conflict under Alexander's successors, entailing misery on Judea, which lay between the two. Holy Scripture handles external history only so far as it is connected with God's people, Israel [JEROME]. TREGELLES puts a chasm between the fourth and fifth verses, making the transition to the final Antichrist here, answering to the chasm (in his view) at Daniel 8:22-23.
king of . . . south—literally, "of midday": Egypt (Daniel 11:8, Daniel 11:42), PTOLEMY Soter, son of Lagus. He took the title "king," whereas Lagus was but "governor."
one of his princes—Seleucus, at first a satrap of PTOLEMY Lagus, but from 312 BC king of the largest empire after that of Alexander (Syria, Babylon, Media, etc.), and called therefore Nicator, that is, "conqueror." Connect the words thus, "And one of his (PTOLEMY'S) princes, even he (Seleucus) shall be strong above him" (above PTOLEMY, his former master).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Daniel 11:5:
Isaiah 30:6
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