every one that shall be found written in the book. --At the time of the siege all of the Christians escaped to the little town of Pella. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. --As to the righteous:--"the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matt. XXVII. 52. As to the wicked:--Scripture is silent. 3. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. --Witness for instance the life of the Apostle Paul and the lives of a vast host of Christian saints. 4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, _even_ to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. --These words find special emphasis in the present century, noted for its railways, steam engines, automobiles, bicycles, telephones, wireless telegraphy, public libraries, books, photographs, microscopes, antitoxins, _x_-rays, etc. 5. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. --In verses 4 and 5 of chapter X, Daniel beheld only one heavenly visitor, he now looks and discovers other two. 6. And _one_ said to the man clothed in linen, which _was_ upon the waters of the river, How long _shall it be to_ the end of these wonders? 7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, which _was_ upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that _it shall be_ for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these _things_ shall be finished. --Since the power of the holy people was scattered in A.D. 70, all these things were finished at that time and right there Daniel's prophetic work ended. The formula, "time, times, and an half" has already been considered under the head of Dan. VII. 25. See NOTE B. 8. And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what _shall be_ the end of these _things_? 9. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words _are_ closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10. Many shall be purified, and made white, --"And the same day there were added _unto them_ about three thousand souls."--Acts II. 41.--"Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed, and the number of the men was about five thousand."--Acts IV. 4-- and tried; --"At that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem."--Acts VIII. 1--