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 121
HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. l-13.-2'V!e revelation lost. "My spirit was troubled to know the dream" (ver. 3), Since the word "and," at the beginning of this chapter, links it with eh. i. 21, i.e. Daniel's public life with Daniel's preparation, it may be well here to notice what his preparation had been. 1. At h…
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them. We may drown them in frivolity, or quench them by intoxication. When God comes to a soul with thoughta worthy or its nature, it is for the soul to open wide its portals and Jct the glory in. About this young conqueror there wns a certain gra~p and elevation of mind. 1I I. 'l'nE DREAM. Here, at present, ,ve ig…
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Vere, 14-30.-The dreamfownd. "Then we.a the secret revealed unto Daniel in 11, nigM vi.Bion."In this section Daniel is the principal actor; and as be moves throuoh the successive scenes of tl,ie part of the sacred drama, his character shines like the ligM, o.nd mny illumine for us the path of life. We shall, therefore…
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1. A grand tinity loomed before Nebuchadnezzar. "Behold an imago, one and grand" (Cbaldee, ver. 31). Four empires represented, not by four figures, but one. Symbol of human power at its highest, that of universal empire, but separate from God. Same spirit 1md genius in all four. A common thing to represent empire by…
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which precudod the Advent. (b) Rome cxiHled at tho Advent, n,,t ,o th 13 ernr,ir" of Alexnnder'e eucceesors. (c) Compare fourth beast (eh. vii. 7, e/, se7.). (d) The symbolic imagery is strikingly close to the reality of Rome. (2) Relatirm to the Divine kingdom and the .t1duent. Under the shield of the prevalent Roman …
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~ule. 8. We can, must, laboui·for its extension. With sword 11.8 well BB trowel (Noh, 1v. 18)•. 4. We shnll then share the day of the final triumph. (lea. liii. 11.) 6. And enter with the Lord on that sa,bbatic repose which follows the long ages of conflict, 'l'hat eternal eabbath closes the prospect in the sublime,…
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supornnturnl. Iloth elements nro under Divine direction. Everywhere Ge"\ enc!l'aft 8 tho epirituol upon tho natural. The laws and processes of nalure anrl nf ham~~ Jir,, God uses so far ns they servo his particular pmpose, and when they fall short of fitness ho introcluces the higher element of miraclo. If Nebncharl…
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Vera. 14-23.-A spedfe remedy for ku'TTl,(1,n distress. The immoderate anger of the king had only aggravated his trouble without bringing a remedy. Uncontrollable temper is suicidal. It robbed Nebuchadnezzar of his kingly dignity, of the use of reason, of the power of memory. For the time being he ha.d forgotten that…
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'!ho wiso general will dispose his forces well on tho battle-fielcl beforo h~ m~krs an onset. Danie]'s first step was to stay the hasty execution of the edict. llo callR into exorcise his well-disciplined wisdom. He uses his acquired standing in the realm to secure delay, He overlooks no point of precaution, He empl…
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is pregnant witl1 blessing. Now it would be known all through Che.Idea, that while the heathen oracles are dumb, the heavenly oracle is ever vocal, The false systems of human invention are covered with shame; the system of God's truth receives now honour. In that hour of anguish, Daniel learnt new lessons in heavenly w…
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destroy all the wiee men of Ilabylon I" B11t Daniel had issued another mnndntr "Destroy not I" and Daniel'e word prevailed. A strange foreshadowina this o[ e.nother event. Five hundred yee.rs later Herod commanded the massacre ~f all the infants in Ilethleham ; yet One of the innocent babes was spared to become th~ Sav…
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is ~it_h ibcrn tl,Bt fear him." 'l'hc secrets of nBture be reveals to tho patient lnvest1gat-0r; Bnd if we will inquire at the portals of the heavenly kingdom we shall know, by gradual disclosure~, the secrets of the invisible world. Evon ~ur inner 11elves we do not accurately know, until God unveils to us the myste…
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daily. According to our present loyalty will be the extent of future award. " Be thou ruler over ten cities; . , . be thou rnler over five cities." UL HUMAN B0VEilEIGNTY DOES NOT NEC&SSARil,Y IMPLY THE POSSESSION 01!' THE N0ULEBT QUALITIES. 'l'he Chaldean sovereignty is represented by gold; the Persian, by sil vcr; th…
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IV. I'll! ALL-OONQUERING POWER, It shall be ra~d by no other kingdom; it shall vanquish all. It-s victories may be slow, but they are sure. No weapon that is formed against this empire shall prosper. The nation that will not servo King Jesus shall perish. 'l'he powers that asS11il the Church of Christ shall be broke…
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EXPOSITION. the nineteenth of 2 Kings xxv.' Against CHAPTER lli. this is the fact that the month of the year of the reign of N ebucha.<lnezzar is given (2 Vere. 1-30.-TBE GOLDBN hu.GE, AND Kings xxv. 8), and this implies the adoption TH1!I FmBY FuBNACJJJ, of the Babylonian chronology. lt is cer- Ver. 1.-Nebuche.dn…
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from Esth. i. l. In rcgnrd to this im:tgc, honour. Bishop Wordsworth ('Com. Dn.niel ') t.he statement th&t it is "golden" does thinks the statue we.s of Nebuchnduozzn.r not me&n t!J&t it was solid gold, &ny more himself, and quotes Lenormant (' llfonucl than the gold<'n altar (Numb. iv. 11) was d'Histoire Anciennc,'…
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1,.,;;, -rb ,r>..,irr-ro• µ.lpos ), then of the Romo.n some indubite.bly Poreio.n, as a~ashdarpan, world oe dietinot from tho bo.rbo.rian (Poly- others unmistakably Aseyrie.n, sagan pehah '. biue, i. 4. O, Tb -ri;s HM1s ol1<011µl"'I• rrx;jµ.a); e.nd there are 'some that have no rec0 .,.: in this latter eenee it is used…
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bona. The Septun.gint, by rendering 4>(1'0,r, &nd tongues, when ye hear the sound of the shows that their J'<.'Rding we.s ~bereen. All trumpet, the pipe, the harp, the srickhut, this proves bow utterly futile it is to build and psaltery, of chorus, &nd of all kinds or anything on the presence of late words musio, th…
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rights postponed to " sc:>t of Jews. The fRot accordance with Ee.stern usage. The point tlle.t the three friends e.re not named, or in of the e.ccusRtion Rge.inst these three officials any we.y designRted, bnt the whole Jewish wn.s the.t, being offici&le, they did not con- ?Ree i• referred to, shows the.t the purpos…
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at tho time every ono In Ilabylon would be The Septuagint rendering hero is, "Whom r,orfeetly o.wrue why Dnniol,wns not there. when he ee.w, Nebuchadnezzar the kin~ aC1irl fho absence of o.11 reforeneo to Daniel in to them, Wherefore, Shadrach, Meehach, o.nrl thle oho.pter ie an indirect proof of the Abcdnego, do ye n…
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If this is oorreot, it gi'l"es II point to "·bat speeches Rre reported In the oratio recta, the youths begin tb<"ir answer with in they Rny more record or olalm to record the ver. 16. If we tako the more common tpsiBBima "erba tlmn if the speeches hnd rendering, wo see the generosity of the been recorded in the oratio …
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moreover, by Professor Whitehouse, that tlio are moro mn.rked th,m in others, bnt in word ie probolily derived from the East; every caso they aro numerous cn,mah to indeed, ho flxee on Phamicio as its source, mnke any stress on inrlividuol word• l~ghly It must bo observod that he maintains that, hazo.rdous. While th…
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In regard to the remaining words-attm- Thcodotion e.nd the Peshitta, dtitcd about f>ltanya and p••anterin-it is argued that they A.D. 150; the Me.ssoretio text, boing fixed a.re of Groek origin, and that, while Daby- somewhere about A.D. 600, 1md represented lonio.n intercourse with Groeoe is not denied, by manuscrip…
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symplw11ia, flvo CltACB of siplionia, and 'AA,ca.7o, Ba,BvAu,r.,fon· tTvµ.µaxoV,na-" fr)l]glit soven co.eoe or nothing o.t all. As the along with the Babylonians as their ally." word ae we have it now is distinctly Greek, The Assyrio.ne possessed Cyprue--another the eviclonce of the Greek vereione, while source of He…
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of l\n nnimal, but e.lso e. mueioe.l horn ; it is the word extremely doubtful, but even were nlso true that or•pd.-.w is the diminutive it gm.n.ted that there was I\ word there it ie from or,pa.,; but it ie not to be B.BBUmed tluit not at all certain that it was n word' con• e.U the ecnsee of the original word e.re …
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heavens," hns thus tho support of the two. foxy, anil the form of his visage was ohe.nged Tho Poehitto. Version hns to some extent age.inst 8he.dre.ch, Meahaob, e.nd Abed-nego . roeultod from the o.bru pt beginning to the therefore he 1pa.ke, e.nd commanded that seventeenth verse o.s it nppcars in the they sh?nld heat …
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Bhadraoh, Ke,haoh, and Abed-nego, and to lonioe. ad genua pertingens." Aquila, it ca,t them into the burniug tl.ery furnaoe. may be noted, also tmnsliterates, <Tapd./3a>.>.a. The first cle.uee might more correctly be Theodotion's rendering is, "Then those render<'d, "He comme.nded warriors, Wl\l'riors men were bound …
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blessing the Lord." There is nothing here, Did we not cast three m~n into the fire it mny be noted, o.bout those tho.t bound the bou~d? .~nd they s~id to the king, Tmly, three frienrls bein~ slnin; there is o.lso to 0 kmg. Theodot10n does not seriously be noted the ndditton, " wnlking nbout o.nd differ from this, "And …
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"act of foilh," but at the same time, tlwir midat of the II.re. The v1triBtions of the prescnc-0 gave 11, signal me11.11ing to the Septuagint Veniion here are inconsiderable. miracle. Instead of "sp&ke &nd Hid," it renders, Ver. 25.-B:e answered and llllid, Lo, I see "oolkd them by name," and omits the eecond four …
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Israel wa,e thus ma.nifcetocl 11e so D\uch without changing the worrls of th~ docu• gro11tor tho.n Iz-bo.r, the.t ho coulcl deliver mcnt. Berthol,lt is mist,.ken in m"intnin- hie;eerva.nte oven whoo in the vory element ing that this declare.tion is that tho God in whioh Iz-be.r ho.d hie power. 'fhe fo.ct of the throe H…
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11ig h11.e euggeeted the.t the K'thib here is to nothing of this sort; hie decree is simply be preferred to the Q'ri, me.inte.ining thR.t negative. :-,':,~ means "word," while 1':>tt! ree.lly me11.ns Ver. 30.-Then the king promoted Sha- '' ine.dvertenoe." Cert11.inly, if we were enre drac~, Meshe.ch, e.nd A.bed-nego…
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whon ho discovers it is in two distinct por- thne, and having openecl. his month con- tions. 'fhe whole structure of the two songs feseerl to tho Lord with his compani~ns in indico.tes o. Hebrew origin. The cho.ro.cter tbo midst of the fire, ma,le by the Ghal- of tho two divisions is quite different. The cleo.na to …
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bnst brought upon us ana upon tbe holy had been written for this place, It would city of our fRthel"B, upon Jerusalem, beoB.uee ha.ve been put in the mouth of Ha.nnnio.h. in righteousness (b'c'annolha) didst thou The arrangement of the names in Hebrew bring upon us B.11 these things." We shall may have been merely a.…
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lo-nasi' tl'lo-nal>i', "neither prineo nor pro- D9:niel, Daniel. speaks or tho srmd •rnry phet." As a. mattor of fa.et, in the period berng a desolo.t1on, and by connection it is of Dnniol, propheoy hnd not eco.sed, an•l implied Jerusalem was a. desolation also· 1111 through tho times of Jewish history it but in the so…
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W<ll'll pl'O!le t.o wol'Bhip were those of the the M11Cc1tbean period, when there Wl\B tl1e nRtions around them. Thie e.poet&ey we.a huge Jewish community of Babylonia, and not connected with e.ny tree.sone.blc enbmie- the equo.lly huge community of Egypt n.nd Pion to the Babylonien princes. So fe.r e.a Cyreno, not …
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vorsion of '.rhcodolion ie shorter by this-tho.t dcgr_co ~,f carA. '.['~e ditrorPnces mainly H docs not givo U10 rofolivo situation of C(JDBIP,t In tranHpORI ttons of the BUccesBi Vfl those who threw the throo Hebrews into liturgic summonings. On the whole thl) tho furno.co, o.nd those who fed it with fuel. Septuagint …
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believing idol11t~r would be RB notbing b<>side tbl\t of one who bowed before tho idol knowing it wn.a a false god, No lios are worse than lios in religion, The Ii.rat religious duty is-" be sincere." 4. Jew~, believing in the jealousy of their God, were required to honour II rival deity. A. heathen could worship a s…
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musicol sonnda. H nrguoa a defective organ, bec1iuso it ia contrary to the ""Mral testimony of henHhy experience. Therefore, while intellectual doubt may be bla~eleas moral doubt on questions of fundamental duty is a sign of moral depravity. ' II. vVIIEN DUTY IS CLEAR, ACTION SHOULD BE PROMPT. Knowing their duty, th…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-13.-The ceasekss creation of gods. "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image." "He set it up in the plain of Dura" (ver. I). Questions respecting the image will be discussed in the Expository section. For homiletical purposes we distinguish here between three separate entities, all …
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Vers. H-18.-Principle illwminated by fire. "0 Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful," etc. (vers. 16-18). Sketch the leading features of this intensely interesting martyr-history ; and then- I. RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE. .And here, that we may not move in mist, let us open out, step by step, what needs to be said. 1. Principle…
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Veni. 19-27.-The Saviowr in the fire. "The form of the fourth" (ver. 3). A sketch of the further development.s of the history will well introduce the following topics. I. Tm: 6.A.VIOUB OF '1'BE xmo's DUGINATION. "Like unto a son of the gods.'' The king wae certainly not acquainted with the Hebrew doctrine of the Me…
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iu _nll it5 modern forms; e.g. agnostici~m, p0sitivism. 6. Impure forms of Ohl'isli- a111ty. Note that even in Russia. so deep is the void left by the Greek Church, that there a.re fifteen millions of Dissenters, whom Imperialism tries to crush, It would not be difficult to show that the Roman perversion of Christia…
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IV. TmlJ NATURAL MAN WILL ALT,OW TO DF:ITY THE MOST AMPT,p; SCOPE FOi\ AOTIVITY, Nebuchadnezzar erected no temple for this gigantic figure. Ila had erected tomplC's in ,Babylon for other idol-deities; but now he gives larger play to his thoughts, and sets up this colossal image on the open plain. No building reared by …
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it ~ht\pe. True religion is the outgrowth of the truest life of the eoul. 'l'o mt\ke it conforrnal1lc to human law is simply to destroy it. IV. CoEBCION IN RELIGION MAKES MEN BIGOTS, nYPOOBITES, 0B MARTYRS. You will find in every empire, men and women who are ready to yield compliance to royal mand11tes in the sphe…
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idol11try of that age WRS extremely tolerant. Every nation and people were all,,we<l to worship their own gods. If these Ohaldean satraps had cherished a spark of generosity iu their breasts, they would have argued thus : "These Hebrews have e. religious faith of their own. Let them worship what and how they please.…
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were on trial before God. Say what men will about mutual concessions, forbenre.nce, peace,-tbis was a conspicuous occasion for the test of principle. If these younp: m~n played tbe coward now, they would be cowards for ever-the sport of every capricious wind of circnmste.nce. If the ship's cable '\\;ll not hold in a…
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Vors. 19-23.-The brief reign of violence. It is only consistent with the sketches of N obucha<lnezzar'e character furnished us, to believe that he was not naturally a. cruel man; nor was he so rigid an i<lola.ter aa to oppose the worship of Jehovah. He was self-wille<l, excitable, easily inflamed; and wa.s too easily l…
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their clothes. It gave them liberty. It brought them new experience. It put II new soept.re into their hands, and made them kings of nature. They were mightier mon than e'\"er. It admitted them into new society, and brought an angel into their circle. God himself gaYe them new evidence of his presence, his tender conce…
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EXPOSITION. whole earth: Peace to you be multiplied." CHAPTER IV. In this reading, the first clause iB the head- ing of all that follows, and the document Vers.1-37.-THE MADNESS OF NEBUCHAD- itself begins with, "Peace to you be multi- plied." The absence of the opening words NEZZAR. from the Syriac Version of the…
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dition in which the annals of Nebuchad- be questioned. The eighteenth year or nezzar ltnvc come down to us. Nebuchadnezzar was that precedini;t t!Je Y ers. 2, 3.-1 thought it good to show capture of Jerusalem, which, according to the signs and wonden; that the high God Jer. Iii. 12, happened in the nineteenth year bat…
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require to be greater. Ewal,l'e further led to the nickname being glvo,n. If h<i consitlorntion, that as "thirty-eighth" would intended his pietnre of Nr:hneho.,1n-•z7.ftr only lcn.vo flve years till tho forty-throe resting in hie palace nfler his victr,rir,ns years of Nobuchrulnczzar wero completed, career, with all…
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count of hie first dree.m, oe.Ue t.ogethM the Theodotion, II.PX"'" ,,&,., 111"110,~G.11. It is o.lso wise men-thnt when he he.d e. dream to be observed that the writer of thcRc that tronbled him itWBE natnml that Nebn- verses docs not make Daniel rob-mag, which che.dnezze.r Bhould do aB the Septu11.gint so genern.ll…
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ne aeon by the eoulpturee-wae BUppoeecl to verse in the Septuagint makee its authen- have the quality of breaking the power of ticity eomewho.t doubtful. tho eoven Maslcim. Whatever the origin of Ver. 12.-The leaves thereof were !air this belief, it eoeme to have passod into the and the fruit thereof much, and in it…
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anc1. an holy one oame down from heaven. ,, (lo). The phrase as it etnnds in the The Septu11,gint Venrion is shorter hero, Rod Greek is not unlike Uev. xiv. 18, "And therefore, other thing!! being equal, is to be 11.nother cried with a loud voice to him thn t preferred, "And I saw in my drPnm, nnd had the sharp sickle.…
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agreement with the llfossorctic text, RB also other hand, in the twcnty-tl,ird VP,rso, in the Pcshitta.. l\Joses Stua.rt thinks the belt which wo have tho fulfilmont of th~ r\re,1111 of iron a.nd brnes is represented RB being put the change iR mainly physfoal, and it is t~ round thestumpof tho tree in order to preven…
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connie, the period of the Penrian domination spoken by angels was steadfRst.") Tho and thn.t of the en,rly Greek suprome.cy view seems to be tho.t the Almighty had "'as ono in which the n,ngelic hiern,rchy e. oouncil of angels, and before them was we.s enormously increased n,nd made vastly every question discussed e…
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it WIMI delivered to a guard, and in brazen The Septua.gint nt this point inserts "Anil Cotters nnd sho.okles was it bound with them. having risen tarly in the morning, '1 sum- I marvelled exceedingly o.t these things, o.nd moned Daniel, tho mler of the wise rnen the sleep depo.rted from mine eyes." The and chief of…
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hour, he e.nswerc-d me in e. meek voioo." that hate thee, and the lntorpret11t!on Theodotion and the P<'shittR. A.re at one thereof to thine enemiea. The Scptnngint with the Maesoretic text hero. It ie to be maintains the epistolary oharncter of this noted here that the word ~h.n'n, trR.nelatcd narrative here, "And …
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the text behind tho Soptuo.gint is superior of the vision, but are not rcpo,nterl now. to thBt of tho Mo.ssorotio; the fatter is Theodotion agrees with the Mnssoretic text. obviously filled out from ver. 11. The The Peshitta. carries the repetition yet fur- etu.toment of Nebucho.clnezzBr's greo.tncss ther, and inserts,…
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l'?f by the pMsive, titcfa'ba; aimile.rly Daniel. Professor Bevan's reference t.o the Theod.otion renders it. If we a.re to take New Teet11,mcnt is miate.ken. In no cMe the words of Daniel strictly, even in the in the New Testament is o!/pavo, used for 11 M,u,.soretic, much more if we tl\ke the God." Even in the Gr…
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