For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”
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For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”
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For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
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For how can this servant of my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.'
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Daniel 10:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 24:10-11 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
- Isaiah 6:1-5 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!” The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
- Genesis 32:20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’ ” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
- Exodus 33:20 He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
- Judges 6:22 Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”
- Judges 13:21-23 But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel. Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.” But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
- Matthew 22:43-44 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’
- Mark 12:36 For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’
- John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Dan 10:17 For how can the servant of this…
Dan 10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Ver. 17. For how can the servant of this my lord.]. Qui tantulus sum, et tam imbecillis. God’s praying servants use to speak as broken men. They well understand, (1.) Their distance; (2.) Dependence.
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Talk with this my lord.] Prayer is a holy interparlance with the divine Majesty: εντευξις. {1Ti 2:1}
Neither is there breath in me.] I am hardly able to bear up or breathe. Human frailty cannot endure God’s presence without fainting. {Rev 1:17}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The condition of the church under the gospel is…
The condition of the church under the gospel is a better dispensation than the law and the prophets, when God spake often by angels; but now by his Son, and that not in angelical shape and splendour, but as a mean man, in a meek and humble garb, and most familiar, Isa 61:1-3; Joh 13:5; Act 3:22.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For how can the servant of this my lord…
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord?.... Or, "talk with that my lord?" (z) pointing to the man clothed in linen, who appeared so glorious, and whom Daniel knew to be more than a man; and therefore he, who was a mere mortal sinful man, and reckoned himself a servant of the angel of the Lord that was now before him, and had touched him, and was conversing with him, and to whom he was greatly inferior, must be very unfit and unworthy to have conversation with one that was infinitely above him; "with such an one", his Lord, as Noldius (a) renders it, as Christ the Son of God, the Head of angels, King of kings, and Lord of lords; what was he, dust and ashes, that he should speak unto him, or be admitted to any discourse with him? so sensible was he of the greatness of Christ, and of his own frailty, sinfulness, and nothingness;
for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me; as soon as ever he saw this great and glorious person; See Gill on Dan 10:8,
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neither is there breath left in me: when he fainted away, and became like a dead man; and though he was raised up again, and set upon his feet, and had a little recovered his speech, yet it was with great difficulty that he breathed and spoke; as it is with men when their spirits are greatly oppressed, it is as if their life and soul were gone out of them, and they move more like dead than living men.
(z) "cum domino meo illo", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Junius & Tremellius. (a) Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 353.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. Neither is there breath] He could not…
Verse 17. Neither is there breath] He could not breathe freely; he was almost suffocated with sorrow.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For how card the servant of this my lord…
For how card the servant of this my lord - Acknowledging his humble and lowly condition and rank in the presence of an angel - a messenger now sent from heaven.
Neither is there breath left in me - That is, he was utterly overcome and prostrate. He felt that he was incapable of speaking in the presence of one who tied descended from God.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain this . . . this my lord--to avoid the…
this . . . this my lord--to avoid the tautology in English Version, join rather "this," with "servant," "How can this servant of my lord (that is, how can I who am so feeble) talk with this my lord (who is so majestic)?" Thus Daniel gives the reason why he is so overwhelmed with awe [MAURER].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. For — Rather, And. In addition to the…
17. For — Rather, And. In addition to the pains of disappointed hope (Dan_10:15-16) he is overawed by the splendor and majesty of this heavenly visitor notwithstanding his gracious assurances. (See note Dan_10:11.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. talk with this my lord] with a being…
17. talk with this my lord] with a being so glorious and terrible.
and as for me, straightway &c.] either from now (i.e. from just now) there remaineth &c. (so most commentators); or (Keil) from now (i.e. henceforth) there will remain no strength in me,—so paralysed, viz. am I. The latter rendering is in accordance with the meaning of ‘from now’ elsewhere; the former expresses a thought harmonizing better with the clause which follows. ‘Remain’ is lit. stand, i.e. maintain itself: cf. Ecc_2:9; and ḳûm in Jos_2:11.
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neither is there breath, &c.] a hyperbole. Cf. (of actual death) 1Ki_17:17; also, with ‘spirit’ for ‘breath,’ of the effects of fear, as here, Jos_2:11; and of wonder, 1Ki_10:5.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) For how.—The whole verse must be regarded as…
(17) For how.—The whole verse must be regarded as addressed by Daniel to the angel. On the phrase “neither is there any breath in me” comp. 1Ki_17:17. Here we may notice the same fear which possessed Isaiah at the time of his vision (Isa_6:5).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For how can the servant of this my lord…
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. The LXX does not preserve the peculiar use of the demonstrative which we have here. Theodotion has it in the second case only; the Peshitta retains it; but the Vulgate omits it altogether. The rendering of neshama by pneuma in the Greek versions may be noted. Jerome renders, halitus. The Aramaic influence is seen in (hayeh) instead of (ayeh). How can the servant," etc., exhibits respect and humility. For as for me, etc. This seems not to be part of Daniel"s address to the angel, but a note which he has added to indicate his condition while he was speaking. - Neither is there breath left in me. There is no certainty whether this is to be taken in the physical or metaphysical sense; whether we should regard the prophet as declaring that awe deprived him of the power of breath, or he felt his consciousness so numbed as that he seemed to be without it.
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