Daniel 8

We have many in this age like the serpent for craftiness. Daniel 8:25: "Through policy he shall cause craft to prosper." Men have the head-piece of subtlety, but want the breast-plate of honesty; they are wise to contrive sin, to forge plots, to study compliance, rather than con…

Revealed, which God makes manifest to them in process of time, whereas before they knew it not. Thus God revealed to Gabriel the mystery of the 70 weeks (Daniel 8 and 9). And in the Revelation many things are revealed to the angels that they might reveal them to us.

5. Mortify therefore your members, that are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, etc. Beza, Piscator, and others think it probable that Christ uttered this prayer to his Father, in the Syriac tongue, because the Evangelist uses the word [illegible], to be lifted up from the earth…

Or it was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his agonies, he was transfigured before them. 2. The special cause of this sleep was the extraordinary apparition, as the prophe…

And so chapter 8:1-2. So Christ appeared to the prophet Daniel, Daniel 8:15-16: "There stood before me as the appearance of a man." "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision."

We know when Moses had been but forty days on the Mount with God, when he came down among the Israelites, his face did so shine, that they were not able to behold it: surely the glorified bodies of the Saints, being eternally present with God, shall shine far more gloriously the…