Dan 7:12 | TNotes | STEP | 7:12 a while longer: God, the Judge of the nations, can extend the lives of nations and individuals (cp. 4:27 ). Defeated nations who have lost their political and military hegemony can continue to live on culturally and ethnically, and can retain their national identities. This happened with the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, and the Greeks.

‏ Daniel 7:12

7:12 ^a a while longer: God, the Judge of the nations, can extend the lives of nations and individuals (cp. 4:27 ^b). Defeated nations who have lost their political and military hegemony can continue to live on culturally and ethnically, and can retain their national identities. This happened with the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, and the Greeks.