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The host was given over [to it] together with the continual [burnt offering] through disobedience; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered.
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Calamity as a Consequence of Sin
All commentators agree that this disaster was not a sign of God's weakness, but a consequence of His justice. The verse states the enemy's success happened "through transgression." Scholars explain that God permitted this calamity as a direct result of the people's sin and apostasy, justly removing the privileges of worship from those who had profaned them.
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Daniel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And a host was given him - The Vulgate renders this, “and strength - robur - was given him, etc.” Theodotion, “and sin was permitte…
19th Century
Anglican
A host ...—The host is apparently the same as that which is mentioned in Daniel 8:10, and means some of the Jewish people. It is k…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet mitigates the severity which he now records. It seems absurd for God to allow such freedom to Antiochus, that His temple should be plun…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression Whic…
God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. If we could foresee the …
