8And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
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And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-13)Daniel had been made to foresee the amazing revolutions of states and kingdoms, as far as the Israel of God was concerned in them; in them he foresaw troublous times to the church, suffering trying times, the prospect of which much affected him and filled him with concern. Now there were two questions proper to be asked upon this head:— When shall the end be ? And, What shall the end be ? These tw…
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