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Ezekiel, Daniel: Old Testament, Volume 12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Reformation-era revolution in preaching and interpreting the Bible did not occur without keen attention to the Old Testament Scriptures. This is especially true with regard to the Hebrew prophets. Ezekiel and Daniel—replete with startling, unnerving imagery and visions, apocalyptic oracles of judgment and destruction—captivated the reformers as they sought to understand their time and...

his thoughts too freely, refers this passage to the masks of antichrist (Dan 8:22–23), but we shall trace this point afterwards.… Some think this prophet refers to antichrist; thus they pass by Antiochus altogether and describe to us the appearance of antichrist, as if the angel had shown to Daniel what should happen after the second renovation of the church. The first restoration took place when liberty was restored to the people and they returned from exile to their native land, and the second
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