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Daniel 12 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Daniel 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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verses
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Hebrew words / lemmas
16
classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Daniel 12 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
עֵת ʻêth H6256 7 time, now
קֵץ qêts H7093 5 extremity, after
יְאֹר yᵉʼôr H2975 4 channel, Nile
דָנִיֵּאל Dânîyêʼl H1840 3 Daniel, Danijel
עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm H5769 4 concealed, vanishing
רַב rab H7227 4 abundant
עָמַד ʻâmad H5975 4 stand

How preachers through history handled this text

16 public-domain excerpts on Daniel 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Calvin 13 Matthew Henry 1 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“13. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. 13. Et tu vade ad finem, et quiesces, et stabis in sorte tua ad finem dierum. Here the angel repeats what he had said before, the, full time of perfect light had not yet arrived, because God wished to hold the minds of his people in suspense until the manifestation of Christ. …”

— Calvin, Commentary on Daniel - Volume 2, on Daniel 12:13–30 (Public Domain)

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