Charles Ellicott Commentary Daniel 12:8

"And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?" — Daniel 12:8 (ASV)

I understood not.— He did not understand the answer given in Daniel 12:7. The question did not seem to have had any reply. It had been asked how long the end should continue, and the answer had been only the obscure words, time, times, and an half.

What shall be the end?—Daniel refers to the wonderful things mentioned in Daniel 12:6, and using a different word for end, asks which of these wonders is to be the last—i.e., which of them is to come immediately before the end of all things.