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A War of Persecution
Commentators unanimously interpret the "war with the saints" not as a conventional military campaign, but as a period of intense and sustained persecution against God's people. Albert Barnes notes this could be open hostility or any invasion of rights, while John Calvin describes it as a continuous, professed war against the Church.
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Daniel
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Albert Barnes
On Daniel 7:21
18th Century
Theologian
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints - I continued to look on this until I saw war made by this horn with the peopl…
Charles Ellicott
On Daniel 7:21
19th Century
Bishop
Made war. —This corresponds to the mouth speaking great things (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:20). These e…
John Calvin
On Daniel 7:21–22
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet now adds what he had omitted. The angel does not yet answer him, but as he had not sufficiently expressed how the little horn waged war…
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John Gill
On Daniel 7:21
17th Century
Pastor
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints The same little horn before described; not Antiochus Epiphanes, who …
Matthew Henry
On Daniel 7:15–28
17th Century
Minister
It is desirable to obtain the correct and complete sense of what we see and hear from God; and those who would know must ask through faithful and f…