Daniel 7:12 (BSB)

As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was removed, but they were granted an extension of life for a season and a time.

From Daniel 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 7:12

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 7:12: Without doubt the Prophet refers to what ought to come first in order, as the empires of which he is speaking were extinct before the Roman. Hence these verbs ought to be taken in the pluperfect tense, because the power had been already removed from the other three beasts.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 7:9-14: Whether we understand the fourth beast to signify the Syrian empire, or the Roman, or the former as the figure of the latter, it is plain that these verses are intended for the comfort and support of the people of God in reference to the persecutions they were likely to sustain both from the one and from the other, and from all their proud enemies...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 7:12: As concerning the rest of the beasts..... The other three which represent the Babylonian, Persian and Grecian monarchies: they had their dominion taken away; not at this time when the fourth beast, or Roman empire, is destroyed, but long ago; and not together, but successively; the dominion was taken away from the Babylonians, and given to the Persians; and then their dominion was taken away...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 7:12: the rest of the beasts--that is, the three first, had passed away not by direct destroying judgments, such as consumed the little horn, as being the finally matured evil of the fourth beast. They had continued to exist but their "dominion was was taken away"; whereas the fourth beast shall cease utterly, superseded by Messiah's kingdom. for a season . . .