Daniel 10

Daniel 10:1

Shall hiss - Will mock at thy fall.

Daniel 10:2

Hast said - In thy heart. In the seat of God - Safe and impregnable as heaven itself. A man - Subject to casualties, sorrows, and distresses. Set thine heart - Thou hast entertained thoughts, which become none but God.

Daniel 10:3

Wiser - In thy own thoughts. Daniel - Who was then famous for his wisdom.

Daniel 10:7

The beauty - Those beautiful things, in which thy wisdom appeared.

Daniel 10:10

The deaths - Temporal and eternal. Of the uncircumcised - Of the wicked, an accursed death.

Daniel 10:12

Thou sealest up - Thou fanciest that fulness of wisdom, and perfection of beauty are in thee.

Daniel 10:13

In Eden - In the midst of all delights. The workmanship - Now the prophet notes their joys, musick, and songs, both to loud, and to softer musick, as the lute, and tabret in the day of their kings coronation, and all this on instruments of most exquisite make, and of their own artists work; in this they exceeded as in the other. Created - King: in the day of thy coronation.

Daniel 10:14

Cherub - For thy wisdom, power, and excellency, like a cherub, or angel; for the sacredness of thy person, and office, as the anointed of God; for the exercise of thy power, as a shield, as a protector of the weak. And I - I, whom thou forgetest have made thee so. Thou wast - Thou wast advanced to kingly dignity, (which David calls a mountain, Psalms 30:7,) a sacred office, and of divine institution. In the midst - Surrounded with stones, that sparkle like fire.

Daniel 10:15

Thou wast perfect - Is not this an irony?

Daniel 10:16

I will cast - Out thy kingly dignity.

Daniel 10:17

Corrupted - Depraved, or lost thy wisdom. Behold thee - That thou mayst be a spectacle, and warning to them.

Daniel 10:18

I will bring thee - Thou shalt be burnt to ashes, and trampled under feet.

Daniel 10:19

All - All that have formerly known thy riches, power, allies, and wisdom.