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I hope someone can help me with this one.
Question – What is the correct translation of end of Daniel 7:27? Is it Him (God) or it (kingdom)?
As much as I looked, all English translations say Him – ESV,NASB,NET,HCSB,ASV,KJV,YLT and so on.
But! I’m from Latvia and I read Latvian translations – 1965 and 2012 – and both say it (in LV thats ,,tai”) as kingdom.
And then I see Cambridge commentary by Samuel Rolles Driver (1900) on this verse says this:
its kingdom is, &c., … shall serve and obey it] The pronouns, as the context shews, must refer to ‘people,’ not to ‘the Most High.’ In this verse, even more distinctly than in vv. 18, 22, the universal and never-ending dominion, which in v. 14 is given to the ‘one like unto a son of man,’ seems to be conferred upon the people of the saints. For the same idea, adapted to a N.T. standpoint, cf. Rev 5:10b; 11:15; 12:10; 22:5; also 20:4, 6.
Then Expositors bible commentary by Gleason L. Archer, Jr. (1985) says on this verse:
Observe also that a clear difference is made between the plural “saints” and the singular “him” in the final clause (“and all rulers will worship and obey him [lēh]”), the one who is called “the Most High” (elyônîn being a plural of majesty, like the Heb. ʾelōhîm, “God”), whose kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom—words not applicable to a finite human being. Hence no possibility remains of equating the nation of “saints” with the “Son of Man” in v.13, there being a definite distinction here in v.27 between the Most High and his people.
All other commentaries don’t talk about this and just use it as Him (God).
Little confused here. Can somebody who knows Hebrew help me, please. Thanks!
Verse in question:
‘Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.’ Dan. 7:27 [NASB]
