Passage Research
Daniel 12 — Sermon Preparation
Michael rises at a time of unparalleled distress, the dead are raised to everlasting life or everlasting shame, and Daniel is told to rest until the end. 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.
- 13
- verses
- 177 / 104
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 16
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- 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.
“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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