Daniel Chapter 7 verse 12 Holy Bible
And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
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As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time.
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As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away; but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
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As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
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As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
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and the rest of the beasts have caused their dominion to pass away, and a prolongation in life is given to them, till a season and a time.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. The version of the LXX. has a different reference, "And those about him he took away from their dominion, and time of life was given them for a time and a season." Here, as in the seventh verse, we have shear. The reference then would be to the horns that still remained after the one blaspheming horn was destroyed. Theodotion agrees with the Massoretic. The Peshitta differs, but only slightly. As the Massoretic text stands, there is difficulty in maintaining that the reference here cannot be to any other than to the other three beasts. They should still occupy a place, but possess no dominion, even after they were removed from supreme authority. After Babylon lost imperial power, it still continued for a time a highly important province in the Persian Empire, and the sensibilities of the inhabitants were considered throughout the whole period of the Persian rule. After the Persian Empire was overturned by Alexander, there was still the province of Persis; and from the remains of the Persian Empire sprang up Parthia, and then the second Persian Empire; and after the rule of the caliphs had been broken, Persia revived as a Mohammedan power. When the Greek Empire fell, Greece still survived, not independent, but still influential. It is difficult to see what meaning this verse could have to one living at the time of the Maccabees, especially it' he thought the Greek Empire was the fourth. Parthia certainly might represent Persia, but where was Media? "For a season and a time" does not refer to any definite time. Jephet-ibn-Ali regards the reference till the end of the rule of the fourth beast. This militates against the idea that 'iddan must always mean "a year."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) The rest of the beasts--i.e., the three first beasts which Daniel had seen coming out of the sea. He now learns what had befallen them. Their dominions had passed away, and their lives had been prolonged up to that definite point and time which had seemed fit to God, and no further. The period of life allotted to them by God was only a little while. (On "times" and "seasons," see Note on Daniel 2:21.)
