He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 45. Apadno. Some take it for the proper name of a place; others, from the Hebrew translate it, his palace. Challoner.—He fixed his royal tent between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. Worthington.—Porphyrius explains this of the march beyond the Euphrates, which S. Jerom does not disapprove. Apadno may denote Mesopotamia, which is styled Padan Aram.—Glorious. Hebrew Zebi, Calmet. or Tsebi, ( Bible.) may allude to Mount Taba, where the king perished, without help. 1 Maccabees 6:11 and 2 Maccabees 9:9. S. Jerom and many others explain all this of antichrist, and no doubt he was prefigured. The like events will probably take place again towards the end of the world. But as the particulars cannot be ascertained, we have adhered to the history of Antiochus. Calmet.