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Daniel 5:28-31

PERES.Peres,"he was divided," pronounced paras, denoted Persians, who seem evidently referred to.

Thy.

31; 6:28; 8:3,4,20; 9:1; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 45:1,2

they clothed.

1,2; Isa 21:4-9; 47:9; Jer 51:11,31,39,57

Darius.This was Cyaxares, son of Astyages, king of Media, and maternal uncle to Cyrus, who allowed him the title of his conquests, as long as he lived.

6:1; 9:1

being. Chal. he as the son of, etc. about. or, now.

Daniel 6

1 Daniel is made chief of the presidents.

4 They, conspiring against him, obtain an idolatrous decree.

10 Daniel, accused of the breach thereof, is cast into the lion's den.

18 Daniel is saved;

24 his adversaries devoured;

25 and God magnified by a decree.

Darius.

5:31; 1Pe 2:14

an.

Ex 18:21,22; Es 1:1

of.

2:48,49; 5:16,29; 1Sa 2:30; Pr 3:16

that.

Mt 18:23; Lu 16:2

and the.

Ezr 4:22; Es 7:4; Pr 26:6; Lu 19:13-27; 1Co 4:2

was preferred.

Pr 22:29

an.

5:12,14; 9:23; Ge 41:38-41; Ne 7:2; Pr 3:3,4; 17:27; Ec 2:13

thought.Intended to make him grand vizier or {emiru'l umra.} Daniel had now been employed full sixty-five years as prime minister under the kings of Babylon; and was justly entitled, from his acknowledged wisdom, to this preference.

Cir. A.M. 3467. B.C. 537. sought.

3:8; Ge 43:18; Jud 14:4; Ps 37:12,13,32,33; Pr 29:27; Ec 4:4

Jer 18:18,23; 20:10; Mt 26:4; 27:18; Lu 20:20; 22:2

but.

1Sa 18:14; 19:4,5; 22:14; Lu 23:14,15; Joh 19:4; 2Co 11:12

Php 2:15; 1Ti 5:14; Tit 2:8; 1Pe 2:12; 3:16; 4:14-16

1Sa 24:17; Es 3:8; Joh 19:6,7; Ac 24:13-16,20,21

assembled together. or, came tumultuously.

11; Ps 56:6; 62:3; 64:2-6; Mt 27:23-25; Lu 23:23-25; Ac 22:22,23

King.

21; 2:4; 3:9; 5:10; Ne 2:3; Ac 24:2

All.

2,3; 3:2,27

have consulted.

Ps 2:2; 59:3; 62:4; 83:1-3; 94:20; Mic 6:5; Mt 12:14; 26:4; Mr 15:1

Joh 12:10; Ac 4:5-7,26-28

decree. or, interdict. he shall.

3:6,11; Ps 10:9; Na 2:12

establish.

Es 3:12; 8:10; Isa 10:1

according.

12,15; Es 1:19; 8:3

altereth not. Chal. passeth not.

Mt 24:35

signed.

Ps 62:9,10; 118:9; 146:3; Pr 6:2; Isa 2:22

when.

Lu 14:26; Ac 4:17-19

his windows.

1Ki 8:30,38,44,48-50; 2Ch 6:38; Ps 5:7; Jon 2:4; Heb 4:16

he kneeled.

1Ki 8:54; 2Ch 6:13; Ezr 9:5; Ps 95:6; Lu 22:41; Ac 7:60; 9:40; 20:36

Ac 21:5; Eph 3:14

three.

13; Ps 55:17; 86:3; *marg:

Ac 2:1,2,15; 3:1; 10:9

gave.

Ps 34:1; Php 4:6; Col 3:17; 1Th 5:17,18; Heb 13:15

as he.

Ne 6:11; Ps 11:1,2; Mt 10:28-33; Lu 12:4-9; Ac 4:18,19,29

Ac 5:20,29,40-42; 20:24; Php 1:14,20; Re 2:10,13

assembled.

6; Ps 10:9; 37:32,33

they.

3:8-12; Ac 16:19,24; 24:2-9

the den.It is probable that these lions were kept for the purpose of devouring certain criminals, whom the laws might consign to that kind of death.

The thing.

8; Es 1:19

That Daniel.

1:6; 2:25; 5:13

regardeth.

3:12; Es 3:8; Ac 5:29; 17:7

was sore.The king now clearly perceived for what purpose the decree had been solicited; and was exceedingly displeased with himself that he had suffered himself to be so deluded.

3:13; Mt 27:17-24; Mr 6:26; Lu 23:13-21; Joh 19:7-12

and he.He strove during the whole day, by every means, to evade or annul the edict; but the foolish constitution of his government (exactly the reverse of the happy rule for the conduct of our gracious monarch) did not allow them to pardon any person who had broken one of their decrees, however arbitrary and unreasonable.

2Sa 3:28,29

Know.

8,12; Es 8:8; Ps 94:20,21

the king.

2Sa 3:39; Pr 29:25; Jer 26:14; 38:5; Mt 14:8-10; 27:23-26

Mr 6:25-28; 15:14,15; Joh 19:12-16; Ac 24:27; 25:9,11; Ro 13:3

Thy God.

20; 3:15,17,28; Job 5:19; Ps 37:39,40; 91:14-16; 118:8,9; Isa 43:2

Ac 27:23,24

a stone.

La 3:53; Mt 27:60-66; Ac 12:4; 16:23,24

and passed.

2Sa 12:16,17; 19:24; 1Ki 21:27; Job 21:12; Ps 137:2; Ec 2:8

Isa 24:8,9; Am 6:4-6; Jon 3:3-9; Re 18:22

instruments. or, table. and.

2:1; Es 6:1; Ps 77:4

Mt 28:1; Mr 16:2; 2Co 2:13; 1Th 3:5

is.

16,27; 3:15,17,28,29

servest.

1Ch 16:11; Ps 71:14-18; 73:23; 119:112; 146:2; Pr 23:17,18; Ho 12:6

Lu 18:1; Ac 6:4; Ro 2:7; Col 4:2; 1Th 5:17,18; Jas 1:25

able.

3:17; Ge 18:14; Nu 11:23; 14:15,16; Jer 32:17; Lu 1:37; 2Co 1:10

2Ti 1:12; 4:16-18; Heb 7:25; Jude 1:24

O king.

6; 2:4; Ne 2:3

My God.

20; 2Sa 22:7; Ps 31:14; 38:21; 118:28; Mic 7:7; Mt 27:46; Joh 20:17

Joh 20:18

hath sent.

3:28; Nu 20:16; 2Ch 32:21; Ps 34:7; Isa 63:9; Ac 12:11; 27:23

hath shut.

1Sa 17:37; Ps 91:11-13; 2Ti 4:17; Heb 11:33

forasmuch.

23; Ps 18:19-24; 26:6; 84:11; Isa 3:10; Ac 24:16; 2Co 1:12

1Jo 3:19-21

and also.

Ge 40:15; 1Sa 24:9-11; 26:18; Ps 7:1-4; Ac 25:8-11

was.

14,18; Ex 18:9; 1Ki 5:7; 2Ch 2:11,12

because.

3:25,27,28; 1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 20:20; Ps 37:40; 118:8,9; 146:3-6

Pr 18:10; Isa 26:3; Mr 9:23; Heb 11:33

and they brought.

De 19:18-20; Es 7:10; 9:25; Pr 11:8

them.This savage act accorded with the customs of those times; contrary to the Divine law which enacted that "the fathers should not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers."

their children.

De 24:16; Jos 7:24,25; 2Ki 14:6; Es 9:10

the lions.

3:22; Ps 54:5; Isa 38:13

king.

4:1; Ezr 1:1,2; Es 3:12; 8:9

Peace.

Ezr 4:17; 1Pe 1:2; 2Pe 1:2; Jude 1:2

make.

3:29; Ezr 6:8-12; 7:12,13

tremble.

Ps 2:11; 99:1-3; 119:120; Isa 66:2; Jer 10:10; Lu 12:5; Heb 12:29

for.

4:34; De 5:26; 1Sa 17:26,36; Ho 1:10; Ac 17:25; Ro 9:26; 1Th 1:9

Re 4:10; 5:14

and stedfast.

Ps 93:1,2; 146:10; Mal 3:6; Heb 6:17,18; Jas 1:17

and his kingdom.

2:44; 4:3,34; 7:14,27; Ps 29:10; 145:12,13; Isa 9:7; Mt 6:13

Lu 1:33; Re 11:15

delivereth.

Job 36:15; Ps 18:48,50; 32:7; 35:17; 97:10; Lu 1:74,75; 2Co 1:8-10

2Ti 4:17,18

and he.

4:2,3,34; Jer 32:19,20; Mr 16:17,18; Ac 4:30; Heb 2:4

power. Chal. hand.

and in.

1:21; 2Ch 36:22,23; Ezr 1:1,2; Isa 44:28; 45:1

Revelation of John 17

1 A woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her hand sits upon the beast;

5 which is great Babylon, the mother of all abominations.

9 The interpretation of the seven heads;

12 and the ten horns.

14 The victory of the Lamb.

16 The punishment of the whore.

one.

15:1,6; 17:1-17; 21:9

talked.

4:1; 21:15; Lu 9:30; 24:32

I will.

16:19; 18:16-19

the great.

4,5,15,16; 19:2; Isa 57:3; Na 3:4,5

that sitteth.

15; Jer 51:13

13,17; 14:8; 18:3,9,23; Jer 51:7

he carried.

1:10; 4:2; 21:10; 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; Eze 3:12; 8:3; 11:24; Ac 8:39

into.

12:6,14; So 8:5

a woman.

4,6,18; 12:3

full.

13:1-6; Da 7:8,20,25; 11:36; 2Th 2:4

having.

9-12; 12:3; 13:1

arrayed.

18:7,12,16

decked. Gr. gilded.

Da 11:38

golden.

14:8; 18:6; 19:2; Jer 51:7; 2Th 2:3-10

abominations.

De 29:17; 1Ki 14:24; 2Ki 21:2; Isa 66:3; Eze 20:30; Ho 9:10

filthiness.

Ezr 9:11; La 1:9; Eze 24:11,13; 36:25

upon.

7:3; Isa 3:9; Php 3:19

MYSTERY.

2Th 2:7; 2Ti 3:1-5

BABYLON.

11:8; 14:8; 16:19; 18:2,10,21; Jer 51:47,48

THE MOTHER.

18:9; 19:2

HARLOTS. or, fornications.

drunken.

13:7,15; 16:6; 18:20-24; Da 7:21,25

the martyrs.

2:13; 6:9,10; 12:11; Ac 22:20

I wondered.

Hab 1:13

I will.

1-6,8

beast that thou.The Roman empire was the beast, or idolatrous persecuting power, when under the Pagan emperors; it ceased to be so when it became Christian; and became so again under the Roman pontiffs, and shall "go into perdition."

9:2; 11:7; 13:1-11

go.

11; 14:8-20; 16:1-18:24; 19:15-21; 20:10; Da 7:11,26; 11:45

2Th 2:3-8

shall wonder.

13:3,4

whose.

13:8; 20:12,15

from.

Mt 25:34; Joh 17:24; Ac 15:18; Eph 1:4; Tit 1:2; 1Pe 1:20

the beast that was.

13:1-4,11,12

here.

13:18; Da 12:4,8-10; Ho 14:9; Mt 13:11; 24:15

The seven.

3,7,18; 13:1

that was.

the ten.

12:3; 13:1; Da 2:40-43; 7:7,8,20,24; Zec 1:18-21

one.

Php 1:27; 2:2

shall.

17; Isa 10:5-7; Eze 38:10; Ac 4:28

shall make.

11:7; 8:6,7; 16:14; 19:15-21; Da 7:21,25; 11:9-12,24,25; Zec 2:8

Mt 25:40; Ac 9:4,5

the Lamb shall.

6:12-17; Ps 2:8,9; 21:8-12; 110:5; Jer 50:44; Da 2:44; 7:26,27

1Co 15:24

Lord.

1:5; 19:16; De 10:17; Ps 136:2,3; Pr 8:15,16; Da 2:47; 1Ti 6:15

and they.

14:1-4; 19:14; Ps 149:5-9; Jer 1:15,19; Mic 5:7-9; Joh 15:16

Ro 8:30; 8:37; 2Ti 2:4; Heb 3:1,2; 1Pe 2:9

and faithful.

2:10

The waters.

1; Ps 18:4; 65:7; 93:3-4; Isa 8:7,8; Jer 51:13,42,55

are.

10:11; 11:9; 13:7,8

the ten.

2,10,12

these.The ten horns, which the angel explained of "ten kings" or kingdoms, and which once exalted and supported her ecclesiastical tyranny, will hate, desolate, strip, and devour her. They will be the principal instruments in the destruction of popery and the ruin of Rome itself.

1,2,13; 16:12; Isa 13:17,18; Jer 50:41,42

and naked.

18:16,17; Eze 16:37-44; 23:45-49

eat.

Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; Da 7:5

and burn.

18:8,16; Le 21:9

God hath.

13; Ac 4:27,28

put.

Ezr 7:27; Ps 105:25; Pr 21:1; Jer 32:40; 2Th 2:10-12; Jas 1:13-17

to fulfil.

Lu 22:3,22,37; Joh 13:2,18

until.

6:11; 10:7; 15:1; Pr 19:21; Isa 45:17; 46:10,11; Jer 27:6,7

Eze 38:16,17; Da 12:7; Joh 10:35; 12:39,40; 19:24,28

the woman.

16:19; 18:2; Da 2:40,41; 7:23; Lu 2:1

which reigneth.The city which, at the time of the vision, "reigned over the kings of the earth," was undoubtedly Rome; and from its foundation, it has, in different ways, accomplished this object to the present time.

12:4

Revelation of John 18

1 Babylon is fallen.

4 People commanded to depart out of her.

9 The kings of the earth, with the merchants and mariners, lament over her.

20 The saints rejoice for the judgments of God upon her.

I saw.

17:1

and the.

21:23; Isa 60:1-3; Eze 43:2; Lu 17:24; 2Th 2:8

cried.

1:15; 5:2; 10:3; 14:15; Jer 25:30; Joe 3:16

Babylon.

10,21; 14:8; 16:19; 17:5,18; Isa 13:19; 21:9; Jer 51:8,60-64

become.

Le 11:13-19; Isa 13:20-22; 14:23; 21:8; 34:11-15; Jer 50:39,40

Jer 51:37; Mr 5:3-5; Lu 8:27,28

all.

9; 14:8; 17:2; Jer 51:7

the merchants.

11-17,23; Isa 47:15; 2Pe 2:1-3

abundance. or, power.

Pr 23:1-3

her delicacies.

Jer 51:34; La 4:5; Lu 7:25

Come.

Ge 19:12,13; Nu 16:26,27; Isa 48:20; 52:11; Jer 50:8; 51:6,45,50

Mt 24:15,16; 2Co 6:17

partakers.

Ps 50:18; Mt 23:30; 1Ti 5:22; 2Jo 1:11

reached.

Ge 18:20,21; 2Ch 28:9; Ezr 9:6; Jer 51:9; Jon 1:2

and.

16:19

Reward.

13:10; 16:5,6; Ex 21:23-25; Ps 137:8; Jer 50:15,29; 51:24,49

2Ti 4:14

double unto.

Isa 40:2; 61:7; Jer 16:18; 17:18; Zec 9:12

the cup.

14:10; 16:19; 17:2,4

much she.

Isa 22:12-14; 47:1,2,7-9; Eze 28:2-10; Zep 2:15; 2Th 2:4-8

I sit.

Ps 45:9; Jer 13:18

no widow.

Isa 47:7,8; La 1:1

shall her.

10,17,19; Isa 47:9-11; Jer 51:6

and she.

9; 17:18; 19:3; Jer 51:58

for.

11:17; Job 9:19; Ps 62:11; Isa 27:1; Jer 50:31,34; 1Co 10:22

the kings.

3,7; 17:2,12,13

shall bewail.

20; Ps 58:10; Jer 50:46; Eze 26:16,17; 32:9,10; Da 4:14; Zec 11:2,3

the smoke.

18; 14:11; 19:3; Ge 19:28; De 29:23; Isa 13:19; 30:33; 34:9,10

Jer 50:40

afar.

Nu 16:34

Alas.

16,19; Jer 30:7; Joe 1:15; Am 5:16

that great.

14:8; Isa 21:9

for.

8,17,19; Jer 51:8,9

the merchants.

3,9,15,20,23; 13:16,17; Isa 23:1-15; 47:15

Eze 26:17-21; 27:27-36; Zep 1:11,18

buyeth.

Pr 3:14; Mt 22:5; Joh 2:16; 2Pe 2:3

merchandise.

17:4; 1Ki 10:11,12; Pr 8:10,11; Eze 27:5-25

thyine. or, sweet.

1Ki 10:11; 2Ch 2:8

cinnamon.

1Ki 10:10,15,25; 2Ch 9:9; Pr 7:17; So 1:3; 4:13,14; 5:5; Am 6:6

Joh 12:3-8

slaves. or, bodies.

Ex 21:16; De 24:7; 28:68; Ne 5:4,5,8; Isa 50:1; Eze 27:13; Am 2:6

Am 8:6; 1Ti 1:10

and souls.By the sale of indulgences, dispensations, absolutions, masses, bulls, etc.

2Pe 2:3

thy soul.

Nu 11:4,34; Ps 78:18; 106:14; 1Co 10:6; Jas 4:2; 1Jo 2:16,17

departed.

Lu 12:20; 16:25

which.

3,11; Ho 12:7,8; Zec 11:5; Mr 11:17; Ac 16:19; 19:24-27

shall.

11; Jud 18:23,24; Eze 27:31; Am 5:16,17

Alas.

10,11; 17:4; Lu 16:19-31

in one.

10; Isa 47:9; Jer 51:8; La 4:6

And every.

11; Isa 23:14; Eze 27:27-36; Jon 1:6

when.

What.

10; 13:4; Isa 23:8,9; Jer 51:37; Eze 27:30-32

they cast.

Jos 7:6; 1Sa 4:12; 2Sa 13:19; Ne 9:1; Job 2:12; Eze 27:30

weeping.

10,15,16

for.

Rejoice.

19:1-3; Jud 5:31; Ps 48:11; 58:10; 96:11-13; 107:42; 109:28

Pr 11:10; Isa 44:23; 49:13; Jer 51:47,48

and ye.It is peculiarly worthy of remark, that the apostles, who are idolatrously honoured at Rome, and daily worshipped, should be specially mentioned as rejoicing in her fall; as if it "avenged them" on her, for the dishonour cast on their characters, while it vindicated the glory of God.

Eph 2:20; 3:5; 4:11; 2Pe 3:2; Jude 1:17

God.

6:10; 19:2; De 32:42; Ps 18:47; 94:1; Isa 26:21; Lu 11:49,50; 18:7,8

a mighty.This was to represent the violence of her fall, and that she should never rise again; which is further illustrated by varied emphatic expressions taken from the ancient prophets. But Rome is still standing and flourishing, and honoured by many nations as the metropolis of the Christian world; she still resounds with singers and musicians; she still excels in arts, which serve for pomp and luxury; she still abounds with candles, and lamps, and torches, burning even by day, as well as by night; and consequently this prophecy has not been, but remains to fulfilled.

Thus.

Ex 15:5; Ne 9:11; Jer 51:63,64

and shall.

22; 12:8; 16:20; 20:11; Job 20:8; Ps 37:36; Eze 26:21; Da 11:19

the voice.

Isa 24:8,9; Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; 33:11; Eze 26:13

the light.

22:5; Job 21:17; Pr 4:18,19; 24:20

the voice.

thy merchants.

3,11-19; Isa 23:8; Eze 27:24,25,33,34

for.