the vision of the evening] Concerning that determined number of dayes told, vers. 14. is true] Proper, and needing no further explication. shut thou up the vision] As Isaiah 8:16. Daniel 12:4. Keep it to thy self, and reserve it in writing for posteritie, without much publishing it for the present, because it is not so much for the use of this age, as for that which shall follow. for many dayes] Or, after many dayes. About three hundred years are from the death of Belshazzar unto the death of Antiochus Epiphanes.