The 1599 Geneva Bible:
“Now I am come to show thee what shall come to thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.”
The 1599 Geneva Bible:
“Now I am come to show thee what shall come to thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.”
[Observata ad Danielem]
Thy people, that is, the Jews. So distinctly is the people of Daniel noted in chapter 9:24. That people is denoted with whom Daniel was joined by the law in the commonwealth, and from whom he was born.
In the latter days, or in the last of these days, that is, before these days be changed into other days, and the age to come arrive. That it must be so explained is clear from what followeth.
For the vision is yet for days. As Habakkuk speaketh, chapter 2:3. The sense: The expectation of the promise shall yet be prolonged, to wit, through those times which are partly described in chapter 8, partly in chapter 9.
Therefore this great vision is in large part ordained to describe, through certain events, that time wherein the city and people must yet remain: and meanwhile it is signified what the state of the people shall be in part of that time. Yet it must not be thought that this prophecy goeth no further. For the end of the former days, and the opening of the new age, and the things to be done under the kingdom of Christ at the close of the age, are openly described in this prophecy.