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NASB | Daniel 7:25 'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Daniel 7:25 'He will speak words against the Most High [God] and wear down the saints of the Most High, and he will intend to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, [two] times, and half a time [three and one-half years]. [Rev 13:1-6] |
Subject: Are you confirming or correcting me? |
Bible Note: Ed, This passage does present some difficulties. Perhaps there is someone out there to shed a little more light on how the Aramaic of 7:8 would translated literally or at least differently that the usual. Chapter 7 was written in Aramaic and chapter 8 in Hebrew. The Jerome Biblical Commentary has this to say looking at the passage from one perspective: "The fourth beast...has ten horns, symbolizing the ten rulers of this dynasty...According to Borossus, Seleucus I Nicator was reckoned the third Gk ruler in the Near East (Alexander the Great being the first, and either Alexander Aegus or Philip Arrhidaeus being the second), so that the tenth horn (ruler)must be Antiochus IV Ephipanes." Looking from another perspective regarding the ten horns,the little horn and the three horns it says: ..."This new symbolism for Antiochus comes from 8:9, "three of the previous horns were torn away to make room for it"(7:8): This translation is based on the interpretation supposing the three of Antiochus' predecessors died violent deaths so that he could succeed to the throne. Even if true, he was responsible for none of these deaths. But in v.20...it is stated that"three of the horns fell before him"--i.e., were defeated by him in battle. Therefore...the ten horns do not represent ten successive Gk kings , but ten kings of various countries contemporanius with Antiochus IV Ephipanes--the "little horn" that "sprang up among them".. Actually as Porphyry first noted (quoted by Jerome, PL 25.531) Antiochus IV Ephipanes "laid low three kings" ...in defeating Ptolemy VI Philometor in 170, Ptolomey VII Euergetes II in 168 and King Artaxias of Armenia in 165." Emmaus |