UDaniyeli 12:8

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

8 Mna ke ndeva, andaqonda; ndathi, Nkosi yam, yiyiphi na eyokuphela kwezi zinto?

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but: Luke 18:34, John 12:16, Acts 1:7, 1 Peter 1:11

what: Daniel 12:6, Daniel 10:14

Reciprocal: Isaiah 48:6 - showed Daniel 8:15 - sought Daniel 8:19 - the last Daniel 10:16 - my Lord Zechariah 4:4 - What Mark 13:4 - General Luke 21:7 - when John 13:7 - What Revelation 5:4 - because Revelation 17:9 - here

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I heard, but understood not,.... Daniel heard what Christ said, in answer to the angel, but he did not understand the meaning of it, which he ingenuously confesses; he did not understand what was meant by "time", and "times", and "half a time"; what kind of time this was, and when and how it would end, and which he was very desirous of knowing:

then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? he applied not to the angel that put the above question, but to the man clothed with linen; to Christ, whom he perceived to be a divine Person, a Person of dominion, power, and authority, superior to angels, and his Lord and God; and who only could resolve the question he puts, which is somewhat different from that of the angel's, Daniel 12:6, that respects the length of time, to the accomplishment of these things; this the quality at the end of them, what kind of end they should have; or what the signs, symptoms, and evidences of the end of them, by which the true end of them might be known. Mr. Mede renders it, "what are these latter times?" perhaps it might be rendered better, "what is the last of these things?" o what is the last thing that will be done, that so it may be known when all is over?

o מה אחרית אלה "quid erit novissimum horum?" Munster; "postremum horum?" Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I heard, but I understood not - He understood not the full significance of the language employed - “a time, and times, and an half.” This would make it probable that there was something more intended than merely three years and a half as the period of the continuation of these troubles. Daniel saw, apparently from the manner of the angel, as well as from the terms which he used, that there was something mystical and unusual in those terms, and he says, therefore, that he could not understand their full import.

Then said I, O my Lord - A term of civil address. The language is such as would be used by an inferior when respectfully addressing one of superior rank. It is not a term that is peculiarly appropriate to God, or that implies a Divine nature, but is here given to the angel as an appellation of respect, or as denoting one of superior rank.

What shall be the end of these things? - Indicating great anxiety to know what was to be the termination of these wonders. The “end” had been often referred to in the communication of the angel, and now he had used an enigmatical expression as referring to it, and Daniel asks, with great emphasis, when the end was to be.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 12:8. I heard, but I understand not — Could not comprehend what the time, times, and half time should refer to. These make three years and a half of prophetic time, answering to one thousand two hundred and sixty years.