Daniel 11:35 Meaning and Explanation
“And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.”
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Read Full Chapter →Some of the wise will fall, that they may be refined, purged, and made white until the time of the end, which is still appointed.
What Does Daniel 11:35 Mean?
Even some of the understanding ones, the wise teachers, fall in the persecution. But the prophecy gives their suffering a redemptive purpose: it serves 'to try them, and to purge, and to make them white', to refine and purify them, until the appointed time of the end. Their trial is not meaningless loss but a furnace that cleanses.
This is among the tenderest verses in the chapter. The fall of the faithful is set within God's purpose to purify, like gold tried in fire and brought out shining. Their suffering is not abandonment; it is refinement, and it has an appointed limit, 'even to the time of the end.' For all who suffer for righteousness, this is deep comfort: God wastes nothing, and the trial that whitens the soul will not last one hour beyond His appointed time.
Daniel 11:35 in the Original Language
tsaraph (צָרַף), 'to try' -- to refine metal by fire, smelting away impurity to leave it pure.
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What does Daniel 11:35 mean?
Some of the wise will fall, that they may be refined, purged, and made white until the time of the end, which is still appointed.