PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel
John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson [1841-1923] · 367,027 words · 376 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 61
employed to translate mi"I', Jehovl\h, inetcod abstlnenoo nppeared to ndd to the snnctily of these four Hebrew youths, woultl it not of 0,&s (o•;,~N). It is not impoeeihle thl\t lhe ndcl lo the EC1nctHy of J u<lne also? In the oriainnl reading may ba.ve been ;n;,•, tho11gh it J';. to be admitted not likely. Ro,h"mee…
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Fnng or Solomon i. 7, ,hnllnma, only with ttgain iB a word which Professor DcvRn the norlhern shortoned relRtil-e. Jn u,or~, dcclttres is ll\t<', the word here trl\nslatcrl lildng. The word rn'"ph~cm mel\ns "end," "mako me onrlRnger Dt'?~~,' (1/°l,iyyab•tem)." "lrnnhloo" (Gen. xl. 6); the verb f1"ru which Thero is n…
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be endo.ngered, In this onse we must suggest itseir to ,my one who e.ppredlltcd romember wo h11ve merely a summery, the difficnlty of tho p&ee&ge. In the pro,- nnd a vory condensed summary, of what vioue ver•e we were ml\oe au,litore to " c•,n- wns probo.bly a prolonged nrgument. We versation between Daniel nnd Ashpenn…
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xxii. 1," God <lid pro,•c, Abrnhrtm," Calvin and <'Ummin. The English versions and thinks tlwt Drmid mn.dc this rcqnret be- the Septur1g:int ngree in rcgnnling the C"Un~e he had ~on directed by the DiYine S('('()nd of these classes 11e here intont!ed. Spirit.. ·we wouhl not for one moment deny There is this to bo &Rid,…
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!Mvo tho mntlor thus r<e.lly in the he.ncls fnces ancl the donhlo chins or lhr,, 13 in of Proviclence. immediate o.ttendrmco on the king. Amr,n,, Ver. 14.-So he oonaented to them in this savRga nations ond semi-ci vihY~rl <"ine;, matter, and proved them ten daya. The corpulence is regarderl RB a aign of n•,bility. …
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i.e in abeolnte agreement with the Massoretio 1tancling in all 'Vidom and dream,. Or, text. The Peehitta c:-alle the etc:-ward ma- e.e the words might be more accurate!{ ,ii/~or, and rendeni the laet clause," and he rendered, "these lads, the four of them gave to them seeds to el\t, and water to (Ezek. i. 8-10). This i…
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dree.n" as mee.ns by whioh the fotnre was convict (co111n11r,an()." We do not see the revealed to men; bot in no nation waR there need of any such supposition. In their own so ole.bore.te o. system of interpretation as land they in all likelihood believed in the among tbe Babylonians. Lenormant ('La interpretation o…
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fall of Jerns•l('m_" We hmi.r I\ grel\t del\l PepArl\tely '111\B hronght before Nclrnchnd• or the hi•t.oric imngim,tion nnd the neoos- nezzl\T, or whether the whole number of tho s1ty of Rpplying it to quPBtions of Biblfral cadets were presented at once, It is tho criticism. Surolv the miuds mn•t be earllrst instanc…
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nn,1 stntccrnrt woul<l be submiUotl to these 1orihe, finding it, ineorle<l it here to crimplet 9 c,u,di<lo.los, to see whnt they wonl<l eny. the sentence. Tho tranRlntion, hr,wover Above nil, in personal intercourse the King procoede yet further, "And constitnt,A of Ilnbylon would be able to form some esti- (l&v,3ei!ev…
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or his dream, then the statement in the curse removed, nn<l Judah 11ermitted to text is 1011a objcctionl\hlo. This was 11110h retnm to their dty and temple. 'l'he a marvellous feat, 11.nd one that BO put objection to this view, urged by Professor Daniel above a.II the wise men of Babylon, Bevan, is that the author else…
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Thcroforo the diffcronce ma,y be fonnd Bo.bi!," yet in some of the eontritet tl\hl~s qnito oxplionblo could we go baok to the of the first two yoA.re of his rei~n hn ie n0t Aramaic originnl. If 'ad roproeentor\ 'ad di co.lied" King of B.. bil," but 0nly "kin~ ,,f (oh. vi. 24) in the Arn.mnic, 11,nrl Lhe two nations,…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ven,. 1-4.-..4.dministration serving and served. "And the king spake unto Asbpenaz the master of his eunuchs,'' etc. The introduction should perhaps clear up the chronology of ver. 1; give succinctly the history of the deportation to Babylon (this is gi,•en concisely by Keil, p. 70, ref…
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Vore. 6-21.-Moral l1eroism. "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself" (ver. 8). I. THE VAilYING CONDITIONS OF IMMORTALITY. The reference iR to subjective immor- tality, i.e. in the memories of men. The principal stable condition seems to be the possession of soul-power (see Luke i. 80; ii. 40…
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~is vineyard, and tested the fruitfulness of this royal tree. The patience of God waa nchly displayed. Ilut as ~unshine and rain and dew fall in vain upou the sandy deserts of Arabia, eo did God's alternalions of kindness and severity leave Jehoiakim unmoYed.. He prererred. the patronage of Pharaoh to the favour of the…
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the ecience of government. The king wae a foremoet men in the march of intelle,ct., He knew that, in many respects,' the Ilebrewe excelled hie own countrymen. Jn Rgrioulture, in inetrumental music, in historical composition, especially in possession- the gift of prophecy, the Hebrewe held the palm. Conscious that the t…
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accoun~ it may be, the royal viande were eupposed to poseees eome special virtue, 'l'hese loye.l servants of Jehovah would not consent to s1mction thie ldolatroue belief. 'l'hcy declined to be partakers in other men's sins. Moreover, God had taken the pains to give to lsrRel minute directions what animals they might e…
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1. It wae a rea~onable suggestion, The question at issue was one that could be brought to Lhe test of practical demonstration, aud controversy would be saved by such an appeal. An hour of experiment is more fruitful than years of speculative reu.srmin". The eye is not always II safe arbitrator. No organ is so easily…
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kn{lwn. Yet we err. Every wild phantom of the hum11on mind Is a link In the chain {lf cau~e e.nd effect. Only a poet can fully appreci&te true poetry. Only a man of imaginative genius can resolve the problems of dreams. This is a God-given power- a species of inspiration. 3. The day of p11.blic manifestation at leng…
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EXPOSITION. OHAPTER IL but these contra.dictions were ench ea were not obvious. The only commentator who Vera. 1-49.-DANIEL FlBST BEOOMBS does not feel it incumbent on him, hnving DISTIN<lUISHED, noticed the difficulty, to give some hint of a poaaihle solution, ia Professor Bevan. Ver.1.-Andin the aeoondyearofthe…
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hood to dnte a monarch's roign from this. to the iden tb1tt thero I.a something a.miss Another eol ution is that tbe BOOOnl'\ yel\r is with the rea.ding-t1.lwe.ya e. thing to bo reokoned from the time when theee Jewish deprecated-and the eimpleat emendation aaptives stood hefore the ldng. Thie would ie to imagine th…
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occurs in regard to Pharaoh (Gen. xli. 8), make~ Hitzig declare, "Tho cbnmetcr or when he h11.d dreamed of the seven kine the kmgo as here represented to us has no and se!en e11.rs of corn. Tho similarity of veri•imilitnde," A Hhongoh Herodntns does the, th,mg_ to be staled might c11.sily lead to make dreai:ns P!omi…
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asl1B1tap11eem, nncl m•lm,hsh•pheem, but in sence. All the soothsayers, we seo were the Beptungint we find the word Xa"8alo,v in not summoned, for Dunie\ e.nd his friends the genitive. Consequently, the sontenoe were not, and they were not singulcu, elso reode, "the mngioinns nnd the nstrologers the writer would he.…
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the king he.d been etrongly e.ff'eoted by the Stuart)" put for the whole." Bo also Klle- <lrcnm, he might not remember distinctly foth (' Korn.,' p. 79), "Because the Ohaldeans "·hat it was. If, however, he had no remem- were the first class, they alone are nnmed." branc.,e of the dre.~m. and only the feeling of The C…
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then add&, "unl888 rethor it be derived to bo cquivnlont to ~IH (1mtl). In A1la Minor, where Theodotion made his version, from the Arabic 1..'-'a \ (at,ad), • strong,' or it was unknown. Jerome, who made his from the Rabbinio i!tt, rob,uitua." Buxtorf version, if not in Palestine, yet under Palee- doee give the allege…
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thing like this, "houses redncecl to heapa the interpretation thereof, ye ■hall reoei ve of rubbieh." 'fh11t tho honees tbns made of me gift■ and rewards and great honour : heaps of rubbish shou!,1 therefore be made therefore ahow me the dream, and the in- rlunghills, is in porfect nccorchmce with tho terpretation t…
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is rnpposrd to pl'Ove the late de.te of Dnniel. it we find that " and t:l were liablo to be It docs seem eomewbe.t strange logio to mistaken, os nlso l and l; we should then n rb"lle, from the preseooe of Persian words have_ 'lt:l (m~1mi), "from me," as o. possible m e. document, the.t therefore it was wrilten readr…
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rnnio. Pnrticlos are good notes of age, o.e oould only mean to him treason. They di,l thoy ore Iese liablo to ohonge than nouns not tell him his dreo.m, not becallllo thoy substantive. could not, but because they woul,l not in Ver. 7.-They answered again and au.id, order that the dieo.eter-for such he w~ul<l Let the k…
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eign and portent. We know how prone men merely e.skoo. tor time, Nebuoh1tdnezzar are to anpplement suoh rules by a native would he.ve granted their request. lie he.d faculty for foreseeing what is likely to st1tked his foith in their 1tliility to unfold he.ppen, and how, further, explanations may 1tny mystery on thi…
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gint tmuelo.tor, inste11d of p:in, (dalliciin), mind-ne, if he were to ndmit 1.he,ir innhility "your deoroe," thero stood 11:ino (motl.cii11), to satisfy wh"t ho wisl,r,rl lo lr,nni, the,n "your de11tb," the 1 (vav) boing omitted, llCcording to his logic, all their clo.ims wer~ ond possibly the prcpoei tion ~ (b•), …
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Rs to whRt he had drenmed 11, guBTl\nteo inecriptione. The sense ie rather that of ,,f the correcfoeee of tho intcrprctl\tion of the me.rginnl rendering, "There is no king the dream whioh 1he poothsayere might be he never 80 grant e.n<l powerful," Theo- 11fterw11rde give him. Hie attitude v.-11B dotion has this reading…
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hnvo boon II elight difference of rending to Selek-Moulou-ki, e.nd MRrdnk wo 8 tho ncoount for the eontenoe tnliing the vocntive great revealer; but by this hie dwelling form it does. It may be clue to rending 11;, we.a with flesh. As we see, however, thero ins tend of inH in the following cln11se. 'l'heo- were gods wh…
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this distinction ie only B mnlter of ortho- imagine the king allowing these wise men icraphy. Are we to dC'duce th&t Professor who had refused to answer his q11estion, to IleYau has B cockney disregard for h's? go out of hie presence in sl\foty and unbound. The writer now drops reference to epeoie.l It would seem mor…
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stntomcnt of cvrnts whirh wa flnrl Irnro; of thcRo frtmonR i:-;nil,lR, were doomed to ,. nlthough it is not necessary, yet on this common destruction with thA P""t m1tstcr• of o.ssumption, the suoceesion of ev~nts ns the craft. Tbnt this WaR nllowr·rl to reuch no.rro.terl in this ohapter beoomes perfeotly these snhalte…
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1w difficulty in gaming RC<'CBB to the question, on the one hand, so on the prPEenec of A1foch. There e.re men who other, it wouhl not be nn ocoosion fo1· the hn'l"c n mn,::-n<>t.ic power over their follows, step Daniel immediately therenfter tool[. e.nd bend C'l"ery ono to their ·wny, and still We think, on the whole,…
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Interval tho petition fur time was bciog Psycbicos,' 7) says, "Daniel Deo folen• prcecntod, but still not clecirled on. This spatium tridui postulal." 1 We learn rr~u; seems not unlikely. Of course, it is al ways what follows that Daniel RCted merely from open to us to dcclnro tho verses from this to his general faith …
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mPd the old Hebrew names of their child- words, 11.nd omits the oonjunction vav, nnil, in- hood. Now espeoiitlly would the BRorcd serting the relative l, d, as sign of subordi- tongue be pres~nt to their lips and their nation, proceeds, "that they entree.t mm·cies thoughts when the cloud of a greitt ditnger from before…
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nothing, but ho reveo.loth hie secret unto his grncious promiso from our Lord (Matt. xvi; i. aorrnnts the prophets;" o.leo Ileut.. xxix. 29, 19), "If two of you shall agr~e on earth ,~ "Secret lhl11gs belong unto the Lord our God." touching anything they shall ask, it shall Who.tever wo.s o.bout to ho.ppen, Daniel and …
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ns P<Jui,•a.lcnt to l'ach othe.r, "Thv drca.m beginning of this verse as the end of vcr. nucl the ,iaions of thy hPad upon· thy bed: 19, omits it now; hence it renders," Dlessod a.re these." "'hile wo a.grcc with HiLzig be tho Name of tlic great Lord for ever, thnt the rcvclnti0n ·wns to Da.niel in a. because the wi…
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be clue to something of thnt rovcrenco which and knowledge to them that know under- hne lccl tho JowR for centuries to 11voicl standing. In regard to this verR~, Thcr,r\o. pronouncing tho encred nnmc, nnd to use tion e.nd the Septuag:nt only differ in this inetencl, .Ado11a-i, "Lord." It is to be ob- from the l\faesore…
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and the light dwelleth with him. T11e Ver. 23.-1 thank thee, and praise thee, 0 T<'nd<'ring of the Sophmgint I\B it 111;1\nde thou God of my fathers, who hast given me differs ~omewhat from the Mneeoretio text,, wiadom e.nd might, e.nd he.at made known "Re-rco.ling deep thing,i l\nd de.rk, l\nd unto me now what we d…
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giving yet more definitely. Ood he.d me.de who had solemnly se.crificcd before ee.ch )mown to him wh0,t the king h0,tl re<Juirecl. campaign, 0,nd taken the o.ug1Jries, pro- Vor. 21.-Therofore De.niel went 1n unto tested a.go.inst this sur!clen 0,nrl whr,lcaal<1 Ariooh, whom the king he.d ordained to massacre. He has…
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nBB<'rt-1! tbe.t he he.d "found Daniel." This ' Nebuobadnozze.r deml\nds If ho cnn fulfil is not exactly m!'t by Professor Fuller's hie promiso, and tell the W'('am ne well aa aMertion tl1Rt it was It mode of tbci oourt the interpretation. Thero is no indic1ttion to ignore all "these ce.ptives," with some- the,t Neb…
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the sorcerers, the mftgicicins." There seems ?mitted by _the Septuagint, we may conlli,kr to ho.vo been II confusion between 1'1))1, it not gennme, but due to a caso ,,r <l.ouhlr:t ('anah), "to answer," and 11/¥ (fz•noh), "to m the Aram11io copies. Romo eopics hn.yo cry out; " the latter word is unsuitable in ~ho prese…
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nnd "visions of the hci1d upon the bed." Ver. 30.-But as for me, thi1 eeoret WILi This is r<'e.11~· to be regarded ILB a OILBe of not revealed to me for any wisdom the.t I pitmllelism, in which one portion of the hBVe more than any living, but for their verse "'as balanced by the other. Wl1e.t se.kes that shBll mBke…
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the interpretntion." Tho reo.son why the by Behrmann, but there is some mist1tk<l intorpreto.tion wo.e shown to N obuchadnezzar in his reference). Thie tendency to derive might be reo.lly to humble him, to show him everything from the Persian is to be sns- tho.t hie empire, splendid a.a it wae, wo.e only pectcrl. Th…
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tin, n.nd m<'rcury. the fifflt fom ooinciding MA.s,orctio text in regard to thie verse, save with the mct11le in Dn.niel's vision. Ewetld thnt tho two Greek versions e.dd, lf 8pour, refers in a note to the poeeibility that this "out of the mountain." Oonoerniug the id<'a might be borrowed from Hcsiod, but Chaldco te…
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A slmiletr ohronolngicol eucocssion mny be Daniel. The word for "threehina-fl.oor" cxpecte,l in tl10 events fnrcehndnwo,I, •.-:r;n;t ( iddrei), is also one that d~s n;,t Ver. 85.-Thon was the iron, the olay, appear in the Targums, but it does np- the bra&1, the silvor, and the gold, broken pea,r in the Peshitta. Jense…
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E1tone that, bounding down the mountain- epeake. Had Daniel introduced tho phrneP, side, had emit.ten tho image on the feet, so "thus saith the Lord," this opinion might that it foll and oocame ILB dust, now grows have been defended. It way be that apace, overtopping the utmost height the Daniel-fell b1tck on the me…
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8liarru-rnl1lm, "greo.t king." Thus in this construction. Something might be •aid for nrldroee the teohnicnl title is given him. Moses Btae.rt'e view the.t nNT")-',~ •honld 'fhe Be.bylonicm mono.rchs nssnmed this be translated" wherever," if there were any from their Assyrian pre,leceeeore, a.A e.g. similar constractio…
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!'llmRrk, eave the VnlgRte, whioh inserts text. It oert11in ly o.ppca,re to be 11n nd,lition, argenteum, RB if reading =io:i. The word uscrl, indeed, has the look of I\ "doublet." '1.'his "kingdom," not "king," el1ows, without view is confirmed by the fact that the Pe- rossi~ili~y of rcMon1tblo dispnto, th1tt in ehi…
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ornoy n.nd the will of the people. All this is which he revised. The Peshitta doos not cloomcd to be overthrown by the coming of call for rema.rk, eave that it 11g7eee with the Meeel11nio kingdom, Thoodotion in tranelo.ting Nt1:llll (nitz'ba.. Vore. 41-43.-And where111 thou 111we■t thah) "root." Jerome renders it plan…
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olOllllr to the roe.I meaning of the symbol. thereof aure. The Greek versions di.trer A good dee.I ca.n be e11,id for Dr. BonnBr's from the l\fassoretio text only in the ordor theory, the.t it ie the effort of mone.rchy to in whioh the materie,ls of the statue are re- l'el!t on demool'IICy. As to the number, ten, co…
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or tho lowest o.nd weo.keet kingdom of the lneting kingrlom. It ie not limitc,1 either worldly system of dyno.stiee. When wo in extent or dnra.tion. Thie, ag"in, a11its look e.t o. meto.l, how homogeneous it ie I only the Church of Christ; fitted and With rooks, a.go.in, begins indivtdnnliem. intemled to fill the earth…
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i.,t]i. d!'(lam Rnd interprctittion perforce r()gnrd the 11ct.ion ae one of eacriftoie.l offer- puhhc 1n R WI\)" tbc~· could not otherwise ing. It ie true min~a~ meo.ne "a present," ho.vc h<>t>n. W1wt ,1rnll co711fl to pa.88 here• e.s when Jacob sends a present t.o Esau after: litc>ritlly, tol,ic7, ,hall be after the8e…
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thus suffering sncrifloa nnd incenAo to be ecribe of the un_iverse, who henrs the •nprcmo offerod to him, from thnt subsisting in sceptre, the interpreter of the, cr:kstin.l tho timo of tha Macco.becs. No writer of spheres." In p. 189 Ncrge.l is n<lnrrss<:r! "" tho.t period would ho.ve written B sacred "great prince of…
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hc•lic>ve t.hat all this promotion befell Danial years, Daniel would by this timo have nt. once>; the statement here is eummary,and beon for eleven years a member of tho includes many steps, and perhaps eev<>rRI privy council of the Babylonian 1uonn1·ch, yc>nl'S. E·rnn at the utmost of his exaltation, and possibly f…
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HOMILETICS. Ver, 1.-.A king troubled with bad dreams. In accordance with the wide cosmopolitan interests with which the Book of Daniel is concerned, we are introduced thus early to the troubles of the Babylonian court. The most striking feature of the book-its apocalyptic character-is first shown in the dreams of a he…
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Vers. 2-18.-Character revealed by ti-ial. Critical moments are tests of character. In this incident the lee.ding features of three distinct classes of character are clearly revealed. l. 'l'IIE OONDUCT OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR REVEALS TH~ EVIL CIIARAOTER OF TYRANNY. 1. It is se{/ish. Though the oharge of a vast empire is ent…
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tho most po.rt, if people fincl scant time for prayer, they have still less for prnis:e (Phil. iv. 6). It is well to rise from the receipt of Divine mercies to the worship of tho Divine excellences out of which they flow. Thus Daniel, having received o special Divine inspiration, at once contemplates and adores the …
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Vers. 31-45.-~ image and the stone. The king's dream as interpreted by Daniel shadows forth the history of successive monarchies, and the final overthrow of them by a greater unearthly kingdom. On the face of it it teaches the broad lesson that hiatory is made by higher destinies than the will of kings; that it is d…
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