Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand… This passage seems to warrant three inferences of importance. (1) That though God for certain reasons saw fit to give this revelation of the future to Daniel at a certain date, He did not intend it to be understood for centuries; since, whatever may be the exact limits of the "time of the end," it could not include more than the course of this dispensation, the commencement of which was several centuries distant when Daniel wrote. (2) That even when in the lapse of ages the men, nine of this prophecy should become apparent to some, even when knowledge "should be increased," and the wise understand, it was the will of God that it should still remain a dark mystery to others, that "none of the wicked should understand."(3) That the comprehension or ignorance of this prophecy, when the time for its being understood at all arrived, would depend rather on the moral than on the intellectual state of those who should study it. The wise alone should understand it; the wicked should not. (H. Grattan Guiness.) Parallel Verses KJV: Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. |
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