He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate. Even to the full end that is decreed, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 27. Many. Christ seems to allude to this passage. Matthew 26:28. He died for all; but several of the Jews particularly, would not receive the proffered grace. Calmet.—Of the week, or in the middle of the week, and so forth Because Christ preached three years and a half: and then, by his sacrifice upon the cross, abolished all the sacrifices of the law. Challoner.—Temple. Hebrew “the wing,” ( Calmet.) or pinnacle, ( Bible.) the highest part of the temple. Calmet.—Desolation. Some understand this of the profanation of the temple by the crimes of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots. Others, of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standard of the pagan Romans. Others, in fine, distinguish three different times of desolation: that is that under Antiochus; that when the temple was destroyed by the Romans; and the last near the end of the world, under antichrist. To all which, as they suppose, this prophecy may have a relation. Challoner.—Prot. “For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even unto the consummation; and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolate.” Bible.—The ruin shall be entire. Calmet.