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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. See also: Amos 3:7Daniel 1:17Joel 2:28Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night and behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea. See also: Revelation 7:1Revelation 17:15Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another. See also: Revelation 13:1Daniel 7:17Daniel 7:4-8“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it. See also: Jeremiah 4:7Isaiah 14:13-17Daniel 5:18-23“Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’ See also: Daniel 2:39Jeremiah 50:21-322 Kings 2:24“After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it. See also: Revelation 13:2Daniel 8:20-22Daniel 11:3-20“After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns. See also: Revelation 13:1Revelation 12:3Revelation 17:12“I considered the horns, and behold, another horn came up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. See also: Revelation 13:5-6Revelation 13:1Psalms 12:3“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was Ancient of Days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire. See also: Revelation 1:14Mark 9:3Daniel 7:13A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened. See also: Isaiah 30:27Revelation 20:11-15Deuteronomy 33:2“I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire. See also: Revelation 19:20Revelation 20:102 Thessalonians 2:8As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. See also: Daniel 8:7“I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like a son of man came with the clouds, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him. See also: Matthew 26:64Revelation 1:7Luke 21:27Dominion was given him, with glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom will not be destroyed. See also: Revelation 11:15Daniel 7:27Daniel 2:44“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. See also: Daniel 7:28Genesis 41:8Daniel 8:27I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. See also: Revelation 7:13-14Zechariah 2:3Daniel 7:10‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth. See also: Psalms 17:14Daniel 8:19-22Daniel 2:37-40But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’ See also: Daniel 7:27Revelation 5:10Isaiah 60:12-14“Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; See also: Daniel 7:7Daniel 2:40-43and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows. See also: Daniel 7:23Daniel 7:8Daniel 8:9-11I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them See also: Daniel 12:7Revelation 17:14Daniel 8:24until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. See also: Daniel 7:18Revelation 5:10Revelation 20:4“So he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces. See also: Daniel 2:40Daniel 7:7Luke 2:1As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings. See also: Daniel 7:20Daniel 11:36Revelation 13:1He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. See also: Daniel 12:7Revelation 12:142 Thessalonians 2:4“‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end. See also: Revelation 20:10-112 Thessalonians 2:8Revelation 11:13The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’ See also: Psalms 72:11Luke 1:33Revelation 11:15“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.” See also: Luke 2:51Luke 2:19Daniel 7:15
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Daniel 7:1
Ver. 1. Baltassar. Chal. a letter is wanting. H. --- This Baltassar was slain. C. v.
C. --- The two visions happened before that event. W. --- The. Prot. "visions of his head, upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters." H.
↑ 1Daniel 7:2
Ver. 2. Winds, to imply the tumults occasioned by fresh kingdoms (W.) in the world. Theod.
↑ 2Daniel 7:3
Ver. 3. Four great beasts; viz. the Chaldean, Persian, Grecian, and Roman empires. But some rather choose to understand the fourth beast of the successors of Alexander the great, more especially of them that reigned in Asia and Syria, (Ch.) or in
Egypt. C. ii. 40. H.
↑ 3Daniel 7:4
Ver. 4. Man. The emperors of Babylon were forced to confess that they were nothing more. C.
--- Their cruel and rapid conquests (W.) are denoted by this monstrous animal.
Its wings shew how the lands were divided between the Medes and Persians.
Perhaps Neriglissor, &c. shared a part. C. v. 1. C.
↑ 4Daniel 7:5
Ver. 5. Bear, which is cruel, and eats what is set before it greedily. W. --- Side.
Cyrus did not attack the Jews. S. Jer. --- He stood ready to attack the Chaldeans. --- Three. He ruled over the Medes and Chaldeans, as well as over the Persians. C. --- Rows. Gr. "wings or sides" of an animal, (H.) or "bones."
Grot. --- Cyrus was always at war; and Justin (1.) says, that Tomyris II.
of Scythia, ordered his head to be cut off, and thrown into a vessel full of blood. His troops are styled robbers, Jer. li. 48. The ambition of Cambyses, Hystaspes, &c. are insatiable.
↑ 5Daniel 7:6
Ver. 6. Leopard, a small spotted beast, may denote the size and disposition of Alexander, as well as his rapid conquests. When he was asked how he had subdued so many, he answered, "by never putting off." C. --- Four. He led his forces on all sides; (H.) and after his death, his empire was divided into four, (W.) Egypt, Syria, Asia, and Macedon, (Theod.) as he had united in his person the empire of the Chaldees, Medes, Persians, and Greeks. C.
↑ 6Daniel 7:7
Ver. 7. Unlike. It is not named: but shews the incomparable power of the Romans, governed by kings, consuls, tribunes, dictators, emperors, at different times. W. --- This in the opinion generally received, which we shall explain. Yet many think that the kingdoms of Syria and Egypt are designated, as C. ii. 40. S. Jerom acknowledged that what is understood of antichrist, had been partly verified in Epiphanes, his figure. The beast was to be slain before the coming of the Son of man. v. 11, 26. It would persecute for three years and a half; but God would grant victory to his saints, as he did to the Machabees.
Yet they only exhibited a faint idea of what has been done by the Church. The same subject is treated, C. xi. Many things caused the dominion of the successors of Alexander to be unlike that of others. It was never united, and was very destructive to the Jews. C. --- Horns. That is, ten kingdoms, (as Apoc.
xvii. 12.) among which the empire of the fourth beast shall be parcelled: or ten kings of the number of the successors of Alexander, as figures of such as shall be about the time of antichrist. Ch. --- Epiphanes was the eighth king, and Laomedon, Antigonus, and Demetrius, had been governors of Syria before.
Most understand this of antichrist, whom Epiphanes foreshewed. Others think that it points out Vespasian, the tenth successor of Cæsar, who made war on the Jews. The same prediction may regard different events, as the abomination (C. ix.) may allude to the profanations committed by Epiphanes, by the Romans at the last siege, and by antichrist. Others apply this to the Turkish empire, which may be paving the way for the great antagonist of Christ. C.
Dioclesian and Julian may also be meant, as well as other forerunners of the man of sin. H. --- He shall overcome many, but his fury shall continue but a short time. v. 25. W.
↑ 7Daniel 7:8
Ver. 8. Little horn. This is commonly understood of antichrist. It may also be applied to that great persecutor, Antiochus Epiphanes, as a figure of antichrist.
Ch. --- He was the youngest son of Antiochus the great, and was a hostage of Rome. While he was returning, his elder brother died, and Epiphanes excluded his son Philometor, of Egypt, and the usurper Heliodorus. He also defeated three, Philometor, on the south; Artaxias, king of Armenia, on the east; and the strength, or God's people, v. 24. and C. viii. 9. --- Man. He gained several at first, by his affability. ---
Things: blasphemy. 1 Mac. i. 23. 43. C.
↑ 8Daniel 7:9
Ver. 9. Ancient. The Son is born of the Father, and the Holy Ghost proceeds from both, yet all three are coeternal. W. --- Hence the Father is sometimes painted in this manner, though he be a pure spirit. His throne resembled that seen by Ezechiel, C. i. H. --- He takes cognizance of all, and punishes accordingly. C.
↑ 9Daniel 7:10
Ver. 10. Fire. Ps. xcvi. 3. --- Thousands. Gr. implies one million and one hundred millions. M.
--- The angels are very numerous, particularly the highest, styled assistants. S.
Tho. W.
↑ 10Daniel 7:11
Ver. 11. Spoke. I wished to see how the king would be punished. He felt the hand of God as he was going to destroy all the Jews, when he pretended to repent. 1 Mac. vi. and 2 Mac. ix. 4. His successors could not much disturb the Jews. v. 13. C.
↑ 11Daniel 7:12
Ver. 12. Time. Each of the four empires had its period assigned. That of Rome attracted the prophet's attention most, and is mentioned first. M.
↑ 12Daniel 7:13
Ver. 13. Heaven. Christ appeared about sixty years after the subversion of the Syrian monarchy.
Yet these expressions literally refer to his second coming. Mat. xxvi. 64. C. ---
He had the form of man, as he had the nature. M. --- He is clearly predicted. by his power antichrist is overthrown. W.
↑ 13Daniel 7:14
Ver. 14. Destroyed. The eternal dominion of Christ could not be expressed in stronger terms. He seems to allude to them, Mat. xxviii. 18. C.
↑ 14Daniel 7:17
Ver. 17. Earth. The first was on the point of disappearing. C. v. 31. H.
↑ 17Daniel 7:18
Ver. 18. Most High, (Th.) or rather Chal. "the very high saints of God;" as also v.
22, 25, and 27.
↑ 18Daniel 7:21
Ver. 21. Saints. The Machabees at last prevailed. Christ will punish the Jews.
Mat. xxiv. 30.
↑ 21Daniel 7:23
Ver. 23. Greater. Chal. "unlike," as v. 7. Epiphanes was a greater scourge of the Jews than any of the preceding.
↑ 23Daniel 7:24
Ver. 24. Mightier. Chal. again, "unlike." Antiochus the great had lost many provinces: but his son was the most implacable enemy of God's people. He subdued them, Egypt and Armenia; or his three competitors. v. 8.
↑ 24Daniel 7:25
Ver. 25. Against, or "over against," like an accuser. Sym. "as if he were God."
--- Laws. He did this with regard to the Jews, (1 Mac. i. 41. C.) prohibiting their festivals. Antichrist will do the like, and pretend to work miracles. H. --- A time,
&c. That is, three years and a half; which is supposed to be the length of the duration of the persecution of antichrist. Ch. Apoc. xi. 2. and xii. 14. ---
Josephus (Bel. pref.) says the sacrifices were discontinued so long, or rather this time elapsed from the publishing his edict till the temple was purified.
During six months, people offered sacrifice clandestinely. 1 Mac. iv. 36. 52.
↑ 25Daniel 7:27
Ver. 27. Him. The power of the Machabees was too limited, to be here understood. The Church and Christ must be meant.
↑ 27Daniel 7:28
Ver. 28. Word. The angel spoke no more at this time. C.
↑ 28License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses