A Critical And Historical Interpretation of the Prophecies of Daniel

erusal of this chapter, that it contains the substance of chap. xi. So do all interpreters regard it, however their views differ in respect to the meaning of them both. In 8: 1?8, 20?22, there is a full description of what is given only in an outline, in 11: 1?4; and there is given in 8: 9?12, 23?25, only an outline, quite enigmatical arid brief, of what is presented with great fulness and particularity in 11:21?45. One event is foretold in chap. 8: 14, which is not explicitly mentioned in chap. xi., though implied in vs. 33?35. It is the event ef the cleansing of the sanctuary, which is made the chief proof-text by those who teach that the world will come to an end in 1843. The same event is also alluded to in chap. 12: 7, 11. But the interpretation of that chapter, though it is a continuation of the vision in chaps. x. and xi., is not needed to understand chap. viii. It itself needs the interpretation of the other chapters for its own explanation, because it seems to present in an outline a few things which are given elsewhere more fully; just as 11: 1?4 has a summary description of events foretold more fully in 8: 1?8, 20?22, though the predictions recorded in chap. xi. are on the whole an expansion of the prophecy in chap. viii., and contain the key to its most difficult passages. One portion of chap. viii. is easy to be understood,and interpreters entirely agree as to the events designated. But on verses 9?14, and 23?25, there is much diversity of opini...