Dan 10:13, 21, 12:1 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 13. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me ] I think it would go far to make a legend or a precarious tale of this important place to endeavour to maintain that either a good or evil ANGEL is intended here. Cyrus alone was the prince of Persia , and God had destined him to be the deliverer of his people; but there were some matters, of which we are not informed, that caused him to hesitate for some time. Fearing, probably, the greatness of the work, and not being fully satisfied of his ability to execute it, he therefore for a time resisted the secret inspirations which God had sent him. The opposition might be in reference to the building of the temple. But lo, Michael ] Gabriel, who speaks, did not leave Cyrus till Michael came to take his place. Michael, he who is like God , sometimes appears to signify the Messiah , at other times the highest or chief archangel . Indeed there is no archangel mentioned in the whole Scripture but this one . See ; .

‏ Daniel 10:13

Verse 13. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me] I think it would go far to make a legend or a precarious tale of this important place to endeavour to maintain that either a good or evil ANGEL is intended here. Cyrus alone was the prince of Persia, and God had destined him to be the deliverer of his people; but there were some matters, of which we are not informed, that caused him to hesitate for some time. Fearing, probably, the greatness of the work, and not being fully satisfied of his ability to execute it, he therefore for a time resisted the secret inspirations which God had sent him. The opposition might be in reference to the building of the temple.

But lo, Michael] Gabriel, who speaks, did not leave Cyrus till Michael came to take his place. Michael, he who is like God, sometimes appears to signify the Messiah, at other times the highest or chief archangel. Indeed there is no archangel mentioned in the whole Scripture but this one. See Jude 1:9; Re 12:7.

‏ Daniel 10:21

Verse 21. Noted in the scripture of truth] Perhaps this refers to what he had already written down. See the preceding visions, which Daniel did not fully understand, though a general impression from them had filled his heart with sorrow.

Michael your prince.] The archangel mentioned before, Da 10:13, and who has been always supposed to be appointed by God as the guardian of the Jewish nation. It appears that God chose to make use of the ministry of angels in this work; that angels, as they could be only in one place at one time, could not produce influence where they were not; and that, to carry on the operation on the mind of the Persian king, it was necessary that either Gabriel or Michael should be present with him, and when one went on another commission another took his place; see Da 10:13. But we know so little of the invisible world that we cannot safely affirm any thing positively.

‏ Daniel 12:1

CHAPTER XII

The proper conclusion to the great revolutions predicted in this and the following chapters is the general resurrection,

of which the beginning of this chapter (if to be literally understood) gives some intimation, 1-3.

Daniel is then commanded to shut up the words and to seal the book to the time of the end, 4;

and is informed of the three grand symbolical periods of a

time, times, and a half, twelve hundred and ninety days and

thirteen hundred and thirty-five days, 4-12;

at the end of the last of which Daniel shall rest and stand in his lot, 13.

It is generally thought by commentators that the termination of the last period is the epoch of the FIRST resurrection.

See Re 20:4, 5.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII

Verse 1. And at that time Michael shall stand up] Michael the archangel, as has already been observed, was ever reputed the guardian of the Jewish people.

Every one that shall be found written in the book] All that truly fear, love, and obey the Lord, On the phrase, "written in the book, the book of life," &c., see the passages in the margin, and the notes on those passages.