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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William) · 101,005 words · 152 reading sections
_The Seventy Weeks_
3. After the sixty-two weeks is to follow a series of events, and all these point quite distinctly to the epoch of Antiochus Epiphanes. (α) Ver. 26.--An Anointed One[618] shall be cut off with all that belongs to him. There can be no reasonable doubt that this is a reference to the deposition of the high priest Onias…
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It is from the LXX. that we derive the famous expression, "abomination of desolation," referred to by St. Matthew (xxiv. 15: cf. Luke xxi. 20) in the last discourse of our Lord. Other translations are as follows:-- _Gesenius_: "Desolation comes upon the horrible wing of a rebel's host." _Ewald_: "And above will be t…
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As for any received or authorised interpretation, there not only is none, but never has been. The Jewish interpreters differ from one another as widely as the Christian. Even in the days of the Fathers, the early exegetes were so hopelessly at sea in their methods of application that St. Jerome contents himself, just a…
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As to the _terminus ad quem_, it is open to any commentator to say that the prediction may point to many subsequent and analogous fulfilments; but no competent and serious reader who judges of these chapters by the chapters themselves and by their own repeated indications, can have one moment's hesitation in the conclu…
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[588] Achashverosh, Esther viii. 10; perhaps connected with _Kshajârsha_, "eye of the kingdom" (_Corp. Inscr. Sem._, ii. 125). [589] By "the books" is here probably meant the Thorah or Pentateuch, in which the writer discovered the key to the mystic meaning of the seventy years. It was not in the two sections of Jerem…
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[604] Daniel used _Shabuîm_ for weeks, not _Shabuôth_. [605] In ver. 24 the _Q'rî_ and _Kethîbh_ vary, as do also the versions. [606] For _charoots_, "moat" (Ewald), the A.V. has "wall," and in the marg. "breach" or "ditch." The word occurs for "ditches" in the Talmud. The text of the verse is uncertain. [607] Perha…
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[627] Comp. πτερύγιον (Matt. iv. 5). [628] Kuenen, _Hist. Crit. Onderzook._, ii. 472. [629] Any one who thinks the inquiry likely to lead to any better results than those here indicated has only to wade through Zöckler's comment in Lange's _Bibelwerk_ ("Ezekiel and Daniel," i. 186-221). It is hard to conceive any rea…
455 wordsSECTION 128_Introduction To The Concluding Vision_
The remaining section of the Book of Daniel forms but one vision, of which this chapter is the Introduction or Prologue. Daniel is here spoken of in the third person. It is dated in the third year of Cyrus (B.C. 535).[639] We have already been told that Daniel lived to see the first year of Cyrus (i. 21). This verse,…
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Once more Daniel was terrified, remained silent, and fixed his eyes on the ground, until one like the sons of men touched his lips, and then he spoke to apologise for his timidity and faintheartedness. A third time the vision touched, strengthened, blessed him, and bade him be strong. "Knowest thou," the angel asked, …
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[639] The LXX. date it in "the _first_ year of Cyrus," perhaps an intentional alteration (i. 21). We see from Ezra, Nehemiah, and the latest of the Minor Prophets that there was scarcely even an attempt to restore the ruined walls of Jerusalem before B.C. 444. [640] Lit. "great warfare." It will be seen that the A.V. …
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_AN ENIGMATIC PROPHECY PASSING INTO DETAILS OF THE REIGN OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES_ "Pone hæc dici de Antiocho, quid nocet religioni nostræ?"--HIERON. _ed._ VALLARS, v. 722. If this chapter were indeed the utterance of a prophet in the Babylonian Exile, nearly four hundred years before the events--events of which many…
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Ver. 3 (B.C. 336-323).--Then shall rise a mighty king (Alexander the Great), and shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. "Fortunam solus omnium mortalium in potestate habuit," says his historian, Quintus Curtius.[669] Ver. 4 (B.C. 323).--But when he is at the apparent zenith of his strength his k…
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Ver. 9 (B.C. 240).--Seleucus Kallinikos makes an attempt to avenge the shame and loss of the invasion of Syria by invading Egypt, but he returns to his own land totally foiled and defeated, for his fleet was destroyed by a storm.[681] SECOND SECTION (vv. 10-19).--Events from the death of Ptolemy Euergetes (B.C. 247) t…
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Ver. 18 (B.C. 190).--Antiochus therefore "_sets his face in another direction_," and tries to conquer the islands and coasts of Asia Minor. But a captain--the Roman general, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus--puts an end to the insolent scorn with which he had spoken of the Romans, and pays him back with equal scorn,[6…
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Vv. 26, 27 (B.C. 174).--The Syrians and the Egyptian King, nephew and uncle, shall in nominal amity sit at one banquet, eating from one table;[698] but all the while they will be distrustfully plotting against each other and "_speaking lies_" to each other. Antiochus will pretend to ally himself with the young Philomet…
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FIFTH SECTION (vv. 36-45, B.C. 147-164).--Events from the beginning of the Maccabean rising to the death of Antiochus Epiphanes. Ver. 36.--Antiochus will grow more arbitrary, more insolent, more blasphemous, from day to day, calling himself "God" (Theos) on his coins, and requiring all his subjects to be of his religi…
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We find notices of Antiochus in the Books of Maccabees, in Josephus, in St. Jerome's Commentary on Daniel, and in Appian's _Syriaca_. We should know more of him and be better able to explain some of the allusions in this chapter if the writings of the secular historians had not come down to us in so fragmentary a condi…
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[662] _Daniel_, p. 162. [663] On this chapter see Smend, _Zeitschr. für Alttest. Wissenschaft_, v. 241. [664] Ewald, _Prophets_, v. 293 (E. Tr.). [665] Doubtless the three mentioned in Ezra iv. 5-7: Ahasuerus (Xerxes), Artaxerxes, and Darius. [666] Heb., _Hakkôl_--lit. "the all." There were probably Jews in his arm…
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[694] Dan. viii. 22; 2 Macc. v. 25. [695] Jos., _Antt._, XII. v. 1. [696] Jerome, _amicitias simulans_. [697] See 1 Macc. iii. 30; 1 Macc. i. 19; Polyb., xxvii. 17; Diod. Sic., xxx. 22. What his unkingly stratagems were we do not know. [698] Liv., xliv. 19: "Antiochus per honestam speciem majoris Ptolemæi reducendi…
609 wordsSECTION 140_The Epilogue_
The twelfth chapter of the Book of Daniel serves as a general epilogue to the Book, and is as little free from difficulties in the interpretation of the details as are the other apocalyptic chapters. The keynote, however, to their right understanding must be given in the words "_At that time_," with which the first ve…
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The anticipation of the saintly writer in the days of the early Maccabean uprising, while all the visible issues were still uncertain, and hopes as yet unaccomplished could only be read by the eyes of faith, were doubtless of a similar character. When he wrote Antiochus was already concentrating his powers to advance w…
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To them that be wise--to "the teacher,"[730] and to those that turn the many to "righteousness"--there is a further promise of glory. They "shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever." There is here, perhaps, a reminiscence of Prov. iv. 18, 19, which tells us that the way of the …
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The "time, two times, and half a time" of course means three years and a half, as in vii. 25. There can be little doubt that their commencement is the _terminus a quo_ which is expressly mentioned in ver. 11: "the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away." We have already had occasion to see that three years, …
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"And from the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." If we suppose the year to consist of twelve months of thirty days, then (with the insertion of one intercalary month of thirty days) twelve …
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[716] See too Joel ii. 2. [717] Enoch xc. 16. [718] Rev. xvi. 14, xix. 19. [719] Comp. Matt. xxiv. 6, 7, 21, 22. [720] Such is the reading of the LXX., Vulgate, Peshitta, Symmachus, etc. [721] Zech. xiv. 1-7. [722] Comp. vii. 10: "And the books were opened." [723] Mal. iii. 16. [724] Rev. xx. 12-15. Compare too…
704 wordsSECTION 146Approximate Chronological Tables
B.C. Jehoiakim 608-597 Zedekiah 597-588 Jerusalem taken 588 Death of Nebuchadrezzar 561 Evil-merodach 561 Neriglissar 559 Laborosoarchod 555 Nabunaid 555 Capture of Babylon 538 Decree of Cyrus 536 Cambyses 529 Darius, son of Hystaspes 521 Dedication of the Second Temple 516 Battle of Salamis 480 Ezra 458…
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