to God’s mind. The past return was only a pledge of the full restoration which God intended for them. But Daniel does not enter into this time of blessedness. He brings you up to the moment and then closes. His peculiar object was “the times of the Gentiles.” This accounts for the remarkable character of his prophecy. He is simply a prophet of the captivity, and of its end. In chap. 12 we have what takes place between the judgment of the Gentiles and the ushering of the Jews into their blessing.