Dan 8:26, 12:9 | JFB | STEP | 26. shut ... up ... vision-- implying the vision was not to be understood for the present. In it is said, "Seal not the vision, for the time is at hand." What in Daniel's time was hidden was more fully explained in Revelation, and as the time draws nearer, it will be clearer still. it shall be for many days-- It refers to remote times ( ).

‏ Daniel 8:26

26. shut ... up ... vision--implying the vision was not to be understood for the present. In Re 22:10 it is said, "Seal not the vision, for the time is at hand." What in Daniel's time was hidden was more fully explained in Revelation, and as the time draws nearer, it will be clearer still.

it shall be for many days--It refers to remote times (Eze 12:27).

‏ Daniel 12:9

9. Daniel's desire of knowing more is thus deferred "till the time of the end." John's Revelation in part reveals what here is veiled (see on Da 12:4; Da 8:26).