Dan 8:23 | JFB | STEP | 23. transgressors are come to the full —This does not hold good of the times of Antiochus, but of the closing times of the Christian era. Compare , as to the wickedness of the world in general just before Christ's second coming. Israel's guilt, too, shall then be at the full, when they who rejected Christ shall receive Antichrist; fulfilling Jesus words, "I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive" (compare ). of fierce countenance — ( ); one who will spare neither old nor young. understanding dark sentences —rather, "artifices" [GESENIUS ]. Antiochus made himself master of Egypt and Jerusalem successively by craft ( 1 Maccabees 1:30, &c.; 2 Maccabees 5:24 , &c.).

Daniel 8:23

23. transgressors are come to the full—This does not hold good of the times of Antiochus, but of the closing times of the Christian era. Compare Lu 18:8, and 2Ti 3:1-9, as to the wickedness of the world in general just before Christ's second coming. Israel's guilt, too, shall then be at the full, when they who rejected Christ shall receive Antichrist; fulfilling Jesus words, "I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive" (compare Ge 15:16; Mt 23:32; 1Th 2:16).

of fierce countenance— (De 28:50); one who will spare neither old nor young.

understanding dark sentences—rather, "artifices" [GESENIUS]. Antiochus made himself master of Egypt and Jerusalem successively by craft (1 Maccabees 1:30, &c.; 2 Maccabees 5:24, &c.).