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A Guaranteed End to Suffering
Commentators emphasize that the word "until" is a powerful promise. The period of suffering and persecution at the hands of the opposing power is temporary and has a definite end. This verse offers a "joyful prospect" (Henry) that God has set a limit, encouraging believers to endure with the certainty that God's intervention and the saints' victory are assured.
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Daniel
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Albert Barnes
On Daniel 7:22
18th Century
Theologian
Until the Ancient of days came - (Daniel 7:9). That is, this was to occur after the horn grew to its full size, and aft…
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…
John Gill
On Daniel 7:22
17th Century
Pastor
Until the Ancient of days came
Not locally, by change of place, he being the omnipresent God; but in a providential …
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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…