Daniel Introduction—1:1

“The subject (prophecy) cannot be adequately discussed without taking a survey of all the prophetic teachings of Scripture both of the Old Testament and the New. This task cannot be satisfactorily accomplished by anyone who has not made a study of the prophecies a specialty. The author, knowing that he has not such qualifications for the work, purposes to confine himself in a great measure to an historical survey of the different schemes of interpreting the Scriptures prophetically.”
   –Dr. Charles Hodge

“The rest which has been said is mostly mere insolent assumptions against Scripture, grounded on unbelief.”
   –Edward B. Pusey

“To reject Daniel is to reject the Christian religion.”
   –Sir Isaac Newton

Daniel 2:24-39

“Here is all presented as set before the king according to his ability of apprehension—the external and visible things being shown as man might regard them.” 
   –Samuel P. Tregelles 

Daniel 2:40-44

“The captains and the kings depart, still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, an humble and a contrite heart.”
   –Rudyard Kipling 

Daniel 2:44—3:2

“This is a time of humanism, instability, war, and false prophets and false 'christs.' The rejection of God’s rule which started for man in the Garden of Eden seems to be reaching a frenzied pitch. Man is determined to prove that he can rule the world in an orderly, meaningful way without God. He asserts that the ultimate purpose of everything is the glory and exaltation of man. This man-centered mania not only makes him refuse to submit to the rule of God, but also renders him incapable of submitting, and that’s Romans 8:7. Because man rejects the rule of God, his pride drives him to do things opposite to what God has ordained. God ordained capital punishment for murderers, but man tries to abolish it. God regards human life as being valuable, because He created it in His image, but man destroys it by millions through abortion. God instituted marriage and ordained that it be permanent, but man divorces and suggests that marriage be abolished. God demands justice in society with the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the criminal. But man pampers the criminal at the expense of the innocent. God ordained the family as the nurturing place of future generations, but man proposes that government replace the family. God declares that the fear of the Lord is the starting point of wisdom, but man forbids any reference to God in the classroom. God instituted moral absolutes to govern man, but man says that utopia can come only through the rejection of these absolutes. God ordained distinctive appearances and roles for the sexes, but man tries to obliterate those distinctions. God instituted sex to be used within the bonds of male, female marriage, but man perverts sex through pornography, fornication, adultery and homosexuality. God made man to have true meaning and purpose of life only in Him, but man tries to find true meaning through drugs, alcohol, the occult, materialism, philosophy, astrology, cults, transcendental meditation, fame and power. Man has his false prophets and 'christs' to encourage him in his rebellious attempt at self rule. These deceivers tell man that he is good and perfectible by nature. They teach that through the process of evolution, man is moving toward divinity. Some so-called theologians declare that in order to have so-called utopia man must proclaim himself the great humanity divine. Others state that the true gospel is the good news that man is deified. Having willfully rejected the truth about God, man is worshipping and serving himself rather than his creator.”
   –Dr. Renald Showers, from The Most High God

Daniel 4:10-22

“Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind.”
   –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daniel 4:22-27

“Josephus attributes to the Babylonian historian, Berosus, a definite reference concerning a strange malady suffered by Nebuchadnezzar before his death.”
   –Albert Barnes

Daniel 6:1-23

If someone should ever ask you
Why some Christians are so slow,
And like undernourished children,
They never seem to grow,
Chances are they're on a diet
And too weak to stand,
For the pulpit where they worship
Only serves the Pablum brand.
How can any newborn Christian
Ever grow to be a man
If he's always on the bottle
Or the baby Pablum can?
That's all right while we're playing
Patty-cake and peekaboo,
But to grow in grace and knowledge
We need Bible meat to chew.
Why not spread the gospel table
With some meat to help us grow
Strong to serve our God and Saviour
As we journey here below?
Let us have a full-course message
That will give us strength to stand
And to those who need milk feeding,
Give to them the Pablum can.
   –Walt Huntley

“The soul is on its knees many times, regardless of the position of the body.”
   –Victor Hugo

Daniel 7:1-4

“The four empires are clearly delineated; and the invincible armies of the Romans are described with as much clearness in the prophecies of Daniel, as in the histories of Justin and Diodorus.”
   –Edward Gibbon 

Daniel 7:7-13

“The empire of the Romans filled the world, and when the empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. To resist was fatal and it was impossible to fly.”
   –Edward Gibbon

“Two millennia ago, Rome gave the world the ecumenical unity which the League of Nations and the United Nations have sought to give it in our time. The modern attempts are not original at all (as many of our contemporaries suppose), but are revivals of the ancient Roman ideal, which never since the time of Augustus Caesar has been wholly lost.”
   –Dr. Robert D. Culver

“Rome was like Humpty-Dumpty. Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall. And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again. Interesting, isn’t it, that they are looking for a man to put it together again?”
   –Dr. J. Vernon McGee

Daniel 7:13-23

“One of the paradoxes of this age is that it is the age of pacifism, but not the age of peace.” 
   –G. K. Chesterton

“The Antichrist will come disguised as the great humanitarian. He will talk peace, prosperity, and plenty, not as a means to lead us to God but as ends in themselves. He will explain guilt away psychologically and make men shrink in shame if their fellow men say they are not broadminded and liberal. He will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better.”
   –Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Daniel 7:24-28

“The empire of the Romans filled the world, and when the empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. To resist was fatal and it was impossible to fly.”
   –Edward Gibbon

“The most striking point in the eschatology of the ante-Nicene age is the prominent chiliasm, or millenarianism, that is the belief of a visible reign of Christ in glory on earth with the risen saints for a thousand years, before the general resurrection and judgment. It was indeed not the doctrine of the church embodied in any creed or form of devotion, but a widely current opinion of distinguished teachers.”
   –Philip Schaff

Daniel 8:13-27

“I can take up a telescope and look at the nearest star, but I can put down the telescope, get down on my knees, and penetrate the outer heavens to the very throne of God.”
   –Attributed to Sir Isaac Newton

“The greatest chapter in the book and one of the greatest chapters of the entire Bible.”
   –Dr. Philip Newell, evaluation of Daniel, chapter 9

Daniel 9:1-19

“The greatest chapter in the book and one of the greatest chapters of the entire Bible.”
   –Dr. Philip Newell, evaluation of Daniel, chapter 9 

Daniel 10:10-21 

“I thank thee Father, for giving me another day to live upon this beautiful earth that was created by Thee and the opportunity to live this day as a Christian with a clean mind and a clean heart. I pray, Father, that my thoughts and my actions this day will be some improvement over those of the past and will continue to improve in the future so as to be more pleasing and acceptable to Thee. But when I fail, Father, as we humans do so frequently, I pray that Thou will correct me and, if necessary, chasten me as a father would his own son, as I hopefully pray, Father, that I’ll be considered by Thee in Thy sight as one of Thine on this earth. And I pray, Father, that I’ll be able to do something to reflect glory upon Thee.”
   –Prayer of a lawyer healed of cancer 

Daniel 11:37-45

“We know from pagan mythology that both Cybele and Diana are variously represented as crowned with multi-tiered crowns, plainly setting forth the idea of fortification with turrets, battlements, and so forth.”
   –Dr. Philip Newell

Daniel 12

“Another expression, ‘at the time of the end’ (11:40), seems to indicate eschatological times. I do not feel that this evidence, taken by itself, can be pressed too far, for obviously the end of whatever series of events is in the mind of the author is designated by the expression, ‘time of the end.’ This is not necessarily a series reaching on to the consummation of the ages. However, it is quite clear from 10:14, which fixes the scope of the prophecy to include ‘the latter days,’ that the ‘time of the end’ in this prophecy is with reference to the period consummated by the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom.”
   –Dr. Robert Culver