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The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel
John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson [1841-1923] · 367,027 words · 376 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 241
EXPOSITION. Daniel wrote the vision which he had eeen CHAPTER Vll. in heads (chapters, 1wpcl.,-a,a.) of narration ('-&-r•w)." While these words do not neces- Ven. 1-28.-Tm: Vrs10N OP THE FoUB sarily imply that Belshazzar wae not king, B.EASTS. but only acting as king, they yet may mean this. We know now thllt for …
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eomewhnt ec11tterod. Cyrus then might ee.sily nanBtivo. The verh tr11nsl!tte<l " strove " in gnin ndv1mtage ovor tho emnll division of our Authorized Veririon is better ren,\crcrl n~ Mnnda that held tho cnnton of AneBn. Ae in tho Hevised," brake forth upon." L11th;,, •• ueunlly, the nttncke of Elam and Media. on ver…
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trnmactcd that took place between tbe to a lion and to an eagle (Jer. iv. 7: nleo time or De.nicl and tbat of our Lord. Ezek. xvii. 3), e.nd suitable to this are the Ver. 8.-And four gree.t bee.at, oe.me up winged human-headed figures found in lho from the see., diverse one from another. mine of Nineveh and Dabylon.…
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to Bctbylonict, if not nt times to litLlo moro ProfcsRor Bevan's Commcntnry (Crilh,! Re- thrm tho territory surrounding tho city of view) on Danio,l, •hows tho d11alit.y inr\ic:,lcrl. B1tbylon. We flncl that N11Lun1thicl felt by the animal mising one of ils hvo si<les_ himsolf ro1tdy to be ovorwhelmcd by the '£hat one …
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nwim " provinces." Thus we aro led to Br,bylon, with llll the coucomitllnte of B city Krnnichfold's opinion, th1tt it reproscuts cou- taken by aeeault. Jeremillh (xxv. 25) p!Clcee 8ti\.11,•nt pc>rti11us of an older ooufedcrntion the Mades with other nations urnler the brokc-n up. The view of Kliefoth, th1tt the dominio…
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not B furthor conclneion in view. The empire intended by this benet hns hecn the tra.ditional interrrotn.Uon ie that the Hel- cruz of interpretllrs. Pre.cticnl!y all nncient lenio Empire-thn.t of Alexrinrlcr tho Gront o.utbllritics-Josephns, and the author of nnd his succeesors-is intended here. In tho Apocalypse of…
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divel'l!e from all the beRstB that were before Nothing like this occurred in regard to tho it.." In all the previous empires, the eon• empire of the Diadochi. Of ooursc, it ia stitution WRS avowedly monarchi<'a.l. With true the number ought not to bo preeacd, the RomRn, the rcpublice.n oonstitulion save as a designa…
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in tho Revised. Luther D.nd most Gormnn Ionian books, as they ho.vo come rlown to na, commentD.tors render thus, as does Jerome. a.re clay tablet&" engraved" or" impressed" EwD.ld tmnslD.tos "CD.et," that is, "set." In with letters. We ho.ve all manner of lcg<>l tho third chD.pter, where we have the SD.rne documents i…
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we have ah"ar. The referenoe then would unlike them in being of I\ higher olase, RB lie to ihe borne that still rem&incd after m&n is higher than the beasts. Further, it the one blaspheming lwrn was destroyed. is brought in line with the image-vision of 'rbeodotion agrees with the Massoretio. the second chapter, whe…
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Ezcurau, on "T11e Bon of Man." ever." This is cleo.rly borrowcrl from the chapter before ns. Elsewhere I we ho.v" Tho title given here to tho Messiah for endeavoured to fix the do.to of this part the first time, appears prominently in the of the _Book_ of_ Enoch, as B.c. 210. or Book of Enoch, o.nd becomes coneecre…
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finilcucpe, the next question· that rie!ll! le- Most B:igh shall take the kingdom, and Wlllll is the epec.inl asp<'ct of the Meeeinnio possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever kiugdom thnt is intended to be portriiycd and ever. The version of tho Septungint when this tit.le is giYen to its King? If we differs in so…
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In vor.17 reo.ds regna, not rege,. The Mae- clom ?f heaven which Christ set np ia tl,us eoretlo text ho.e some peculiarities. Tho first promised to fill the earth. The Church i, words o.lford one of tho ro.ro inetnncee thus the true ultimate state. If we regar,l where we ho.ve tho 'ilhpo.cl inetee.d of the tbe Churc…
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'l'Ri! against them. When ho ea.me up from spre.ng up. There wore seven or eight Egypt, and entered into the Banctua.ry a.nd Le.gide, as many Soloucide, three or fom plundered it, he could not be said to make Attalide, fl.vo or six Antigonidet not to we.r against Israel. Jndroa wa,s one of bis epee.k of euoh men as …
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nnd dominion, o.nd the grea tneaa of the threo years of our Lord's minislry ls of kingdom under the whole heaven, ■hall be more moment for tho history of the raco given to the people of the saint■ of the :Moat than e.ll the millennia. the.t preceded it. High, whose kingdom is an everlaating Ver. 28.-Hitherto is the end…
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to him by the grace of God, who had given chadnezze.r and Dalsho.zzar, wheroaa the it in e. new vision to Daniel. The king ln.tter two are empires,; the third, tho <lrc>ams of a co!oSl'ft.l image, with head of Medo-Persio.n ; and the fourth, the Greok. gohl, arms and ohest of silver, belly and He, however, takes the se…
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himself, thia is easily explicable. Only, if irnportnnco is the way numbers are, used ae this cxplane.tion ho gmntccl, there is no marks by which identities aro indicated. ncccl for ple.cing Daniel so Into 11s the clays Thus in Rcvclnti<,n the clrngon, the b,,o,st of the Macco.beos. If the scheme of history that came o…
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prominent diff'orenoee override the reeem- the reign of Delehe.11:zar. The Medo- blnnco of the one ho.ving e. mouth epea.king Pereia.n ie the third monarchy, nncl tho i::r,1:it things nnd mo.ling wo.r with the fourth monl\rchy ie the Greek. As we 111\ve enints. Rn<l the other being a. king thRt &lree.dy ea.id, Hitzi…
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Image ehow it oleBrly. Dr. Davideon, in existence of an indcpe,n<lcnt empire of Merles hie ehort article on Bovan'e •Daniel' in the succeeding that of He.by Ion, an,] ovcrll,rnwn Oritical Review, rom1uke that the eecond by Cyras, is not hinted Min other Scriptnre,s. lienet which lifted iteclf up on one eicle The critic…
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Again, "·hen D1uius rublisl1cs the decree in extent of territory, this affords no sli~dow thnt oondemns DAniel to the lions' den, he of proof thnt there WAS a llfodio.n Empiro is moved to establish the decree "acrord- between the Dnbyloninn and the Pcrsirm. ing to the lRw of the Medas e.nd Persians, We may, then, as…
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nnimnl flgurce. Tho eoconrl empire he.e ence of De.nicl'R bee.Rt with ten horns. TI,., duo.lity for its numerico.l note-two e.rme, Apoce.lypee of Baruch was probably wril.t,en two eiclee, e.nd, in the ce.eo of the ram, two in B.C. 60, and there the Roman pow~r is horns. Thie is o. no.turn! eymbol for the expressly des…
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three empcron, Ge.Iba, Vitclliua, Otho, had Divine sovereignty. Only the most abso- bC'<'n removed. lute monarch onn nt nil, in idea, represent The iuterpreta.tion is not yet exhnusted. Divine sovereignty. The Da.bylonian go- It. he.s heen J"e<'.ognized that the two legs vrrnment had this aheolutcncse-tho ldng's re…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-12.-Godleas kingdom,. Daniel's vision brings before us the origin, the character, and the destiny of god.lees kingdoms. I. OaIGm, 1. Earthly. The Divine kingdom comes from above-" with the clouds of heaven" (ver. 13). 'l'heee kingdoms come from below-from the dark depths of the sea. Earthly passio…
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1beir bumble ser1•ice is all noted. (3) God preRervea e. remombra.nce of men's sine. God forgetl! sin when be forgives it, but till then our forgetting it doee not remove it from his book of remembrance, any more tha.n our forgetting e. bond relee.ees ue from the obligation of it when it is prMented. 2. The book of lif…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-12.-Brute rule. "Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another" (ver. 3). We remark the transieion here from history to prophecy; the date, the first year of Belshazzar, that is, before the fall of the first of the world- powers about to be described ; the form, …
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be the cnmbrousncss 11nd slow advance of the Persian armies; e.g. the invasion ot Greece by Xerxes (see the histories). Note the accessories of the symbol. Raising itself on one side, and perhaps striking out with its right forearm. This in<licat.es the combination of Mede with Persian-the latter the stronger 11nd m…
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xxv. 81.). Bimi_Iar, th~ugh n_ot iden~ical, is the ill;'agery of 2 These. ii, 8; Rev. i. 7. Ilol! Scripture 1e consistent ID applymg euch de•criptions only to God, ancl to God in ~hnst•. ~ee t~echarge agai?e.ton? cnelll:yof the Church in olden time (Isa, xiv.13, 14). lhcee rnt1mations of the D1vme ID Christ of the O…
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rns~~ting the fourth brute_ power. T~e angelic interpreter ~xplained, and also gave ndd1t1onal touches to the picture, or which we shall make use in the homily, ..4.ll this ,'.s the dream, mark I We shall assume that the single horn does not eland for the nntichrist of the Old TeRtament, vfa. Antiochue Epipbanes ; a…
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kingdoms have Brison ; and B part of their powc~ h_ae disappeared before the growing supremacy of papal Romo. But even that bas w1thm the last half-century been shorn of its strength. Still much remains for the future to disclose. 2. Rome papal will stand/or a definite time. "Until II time," etc. (ver. 25). The time is…
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is like o. lion, tbottgh, as years roll on, be at length acquires a man's heart-the sensi- bility of human tenderness. A second is like a leopard; yet so swift is ho for destruction, that the fleetneBB of the leopard fails to convey all tha truth; therefore four wings of a fowl are added to the symbol. A third is like …
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of the lions' den, but bccRnse of the obscurity of the vision; in other words, because of the uncertain fortune of God's kingdom. 'l'he symbol of the fourth beast seemed to l1etoken disaster, suffering, yea, even destruction, for the people of God. That ueder the violence of this unnatural monster the saints of the …
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER VIII. Ailam, and I was on the Uh11I." Tha Syriac is in close agreement with the Vere. 1-27.-TBE RAM AND TIIE HE- MasBOretic, even to the transr,ri pti0n 0f the GOAT. doubtful word Dbal. The transoription is co.rried so far thnt m•deenatha, "a city," This chapter marks the change from is used to…
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AeevriRn l>trlu. It reallv mMne "oitadel " his VIB!on seems looking from the we.lie or or '' fortress," Rnd tlrne •mRy be oompe.recl the citaclel of Shuehn.n, most likely even "·ith the CRrihRginian byna. Jeromc's now the en.pita] of the triumphant young 1rRnelation, ca~tn,m, suite this. It is not conqueror. Tho pro…
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from anywhere-this delicacy (feinheit) Pro- was the genera.I word in Babylon for" east." fessor Behrmrinn hits ovedooked. Kra.nich- It is used in this pns:;age in its original fcltl o.nd Zoclder follow this. The view of meaning of" seaward." From the fact that, Bishop Nowton, followed by Archdeacon to the prophet writi…
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(lirl pd-roP), and towo.rd tho ea.et, e.nd townrd (looppaf). So too the last verb has cvirlently the north." In thie caee, l,rl Pd-rov ia clenrly been read 1,110,;i:,;1 (,;iiyyir'm,oohno) inste:ul o doubl~t-e.n alternative rendering that of OP.'?"?T;I} ( "atti~1msay,n ), due to the rcsc 111. I.me got mto the toxt from …
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IU! we can, rules of int,erprctution which tho bably had beon written on the morgin, nntl nuthor himself supplit>s us with. Using then ,hopped into the text. 'fhe lntler this guidt>, we st>o nl'xt that., whon 9. nation port of the Septuogint verse oppoors to ho wns defeofod and oppressed, its a.ngel or confused with th…
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llT<' most inlorcsted in tho length of time throe averitgo yenrs, nnd seventy de.ye more that tl1c s,mctnnn· shRll remain desolRte. than three years of three hundred and sixty This mny in,lie.l\to thRt it 1\"BB evident, days eitch. If, however, the year be tho lnne.r from the vision, thnt iho poriod of deso- yc11r o…
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prcl11lion, but, euepicioue of them, he still fell on hill foce, overwhelmed at contad continued hie search. In nnewer to Daniel'e with the spiritual. It is mcnt.ionc,l as if eoarch, there stood before him one having this were the no.tural result of snch cm "tho nppenrnnce of 11, man (gabeT) "-e.n interview as tho.t vo…
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thRt the present timr. when lerR.el hR.a "ejus." It is difficult to decide what ie neither rountry nor city, is one of indig- tho truo reading here. In tho reading of nation ; but the immediR.te referenoo is to the older versions the meaning is that those the pel'Brcution Rgllinst the Jews inaugu- kings which should…
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to a.bet their pra.cticcs. A ldny of fierce coun- eeC?nd by 1Jiri7,u,3 311,i3. Tho.t tlrn power of le1111nc8; "strong of countennnco." Thie E_p1phanee wo.e gree.t-gree.ter th"n that of rofere. to oourage o.nd success in wo.r. Thue his brother nnd immed into prcdece•sor-ie Amnzmh (2 Kings xiv. B), when he wishes to un…
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•hall dem-oy the mighty and the holy people. shall ho oorrupt me.ny, and for tho destruc- The rendering or the Revised Vel'l!ion bf,tter tion of many shall ho 1tand, and a8 eggs conveys the sense of the original, " He she.11 ho crush (them) in hi1 he.nd,'' readin.,. shall destroy the mighty ones." There has k'baytzt…
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rel'um. H ho.ppens tlmt both the meaning ?( ,the definite article; hut this merely Mto.?hed to the word elialvah by the Greek mt1me.tes a rererencc. This statement <loP,~ vers1ona hero, nnd tho.t found in other not mee.n tbo.t the period indicate,! by tho po.sso.ges, hnrmonizo. The trenchcry of the two t_housand thr…
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<'Onld not fRil to know of Persia, ancl it even .A.flerioard I rore up, and did th6 ki11g'B did not require more than a knowledge of b11.Binus. We have no distinct evidence of the peiet, and ordinary powore of political what the business w11.11 that took Daniel to for<>caet. to BC'C that Cyrus might, and pro• Susa, …
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eh111l wo foci ite esAenti11lly destructive character (Jas. i. 15). 2. Tho wr,rl.-l without God deteriorate.9. These kingdoms get worse nnd worse. The moral progress of mnnkind is dependent on our relation to God-on our submission to his redemptive and educational infiuonce. When these are discarded, morality declines.…
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11. Hm ACTION. 1. He practucd decdt. (Ver. 25.) "And though .. , by peace ~1~ 01) destroy m1mr". He wonld destroy II people resting in au unrMl eocurlty. 2. /Jd d1s 11f.-ed i.he eccles,.asttcal 1-al.ers in lsl'ael. (Ver. 10.) Read, The horn "waxed great ngainst the host," etr.. 3. He acted so that the whole Hebrew comm…
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responsibilities of Lho presont moment.. If o. man coul,I see all tlrnt there is in heaven, it w~ulcl only sorvo to inspiro him with ~ deeper co~viction of his obl_igations in every relation, If he could see o.11 that there 1s to come 1n the vast eternity before him it woul<l only inapiro him with a profounder sense of…
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Vers. 13--27.-171e plaa of angelic ministration. .Angele appear upon Daniel's visionary scene, and indicate the manifold services they discharge for men. In all probability they have individual and special qualifications for different kinds of service. 'l'l,e utmost variety of gift is consistent with wisdom, happiness,…
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EXPOSITION. OHAPTER IX. Daniel imagined a Median Empire between the Babylonian o.nd the Persian. "(1) In Vera. 1-27.-TBE SEVENTY WEEKS. the fust year of Darius son of Xerxes, of the This is the chapter of Daniel which has seed of the Medes who," that is. the Medes- oooe.sioned most controversy. Itwo.s appealed the …
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to lmow the oontente of a letter. Even 11 ste.nds with the prayers of Ezra and Nehc- f<tl8arluB of the moat ignoro.nt sort would mia.h, a.a the subject of their supplication is sco.rcely fa.ii lo avoid the blunder attributell • similar to that of the pra.yer before ua. to the nuthor of Do.niel by critics. How do Ver. 4…
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J'RBSBges that would suggest e. third form, Nehemie.h, because there is a narre.tive or the independent source of both. Not un- the history of the people. When we com- likely the l!Ouroe wu eome litnrgio prByer. pare the Pee.lter of Solomon, we find the As the shorter, the pBSBBge before us mBy only King of Israel i…
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1hnplial in this rending is unueu11l; but the.t ba5 mitlieka with the preposition ~ oon- this is rather in fo.vour of it being the not mean" faithfulness," but" trnth." .. This true reading; o.nd the return to the second is e. miste.ke; the preposition mio-ht alter the poreon, while awkward, e.lso he.a weight. signi…
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Yer. 16.-0 Lord, Recording to all thy "thou." As it etAnd•, it really aernrte thnt righteousne11, I bes~eoh thee, let thine the d"eolations are on account of the Lord- anger and thy fury be turned away from an assertion which would not be gorm1mo to thy oity J'eru111Llem, thy holy mountain: be- the tenor of the pr11…
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our riali!roitmeeeee. There le " marked Ewald in rcgrirrl to the ,late ,,r ll,mwh t" ad_vance in spiritual insight exhibited hy ~o correct, it woulrl have been or r1<lvanll\go this. The old position was reward nccord- m our further argument. fng to righteousness, 11nd mercy because of E:wald further a. 0 sumcs thn.t th…
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BRruch upon Daniel, and therefore the them, do not necessitate this sense, as we priority of the lntter. have shown above. In Daniel Ilelehazzar More important is the utter failure of is nev<lr deaoribed aa the son of Nebuohad- the writer of Bn.ruoh to oomprebend the nezze.r in the same way as Darius is condition o…
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right in our idea of tho de.to of the Book of JM about /he time of the erenfrig olilrition. D1mrnh, Bnd of the role.tion between it e.nd De.niel ie eo e.bsorbe<l in his <l~v0tions thnt the Book of Daniel, we have proved that not till Gabriel touched bim did he reco"'- Do.niel must ho.ve existed long prior to the nize t…
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thE' way. 7?,e eommrrndment came forth. thnlh) instead of /iat.ham; the othar translator Tbe word tm.nslnt!'d "oomm11ndmPnt" ia must have read ma(lah (;ir;,i.,). The phmse, the very common Hebrew word, ~"J (dabar), B,11vo11Biiv111 .,.& 8pa/J-t1., "to understand the "11 word," "11 thing," "11 m11tter," in which visio…
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o•p-;', nn,l would render, "by wceke it ie aro largely morn]; hnt still tl,c :\[,·s•ianio dcti,rminccl." '!'hero ·seems little eviclcnco period even waa nr,t to bo expcclo,l to be one for this ren.cling; n.gn.inat n. few late mn.nn- in which there will be no sin-it is to br, rc- scripta la tho conaensua of versions. "D…
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tuary" UI "r~c''.IP, with the article. He ap- received text, "And thou shalt know and peals to 1 Chron. x:i:iii. 18 ae a case where, understand, from the going forth of the without the article, the phrase applies to an word to determine and build Jerusalem, until the anointed leader, ls seven weeka individual, "P "i' …
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Ho refers to Ewald's • Grammar,' but at his diversity or opinion a.e to the date &t which roferonce Ew11Id says that •:., ie the sign of that event occurred. But, further, we are the semi-oblique nnrrative need in Hebrew. not to expect that prophecy shall lrnve the In a note Ewald refers to icM~ as lntrodno- ac!111racy…
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d<'l'icee have been tried t,o equll.l'e ma ltcre. girls playing." .And ths tMU, even In Ewald drope out seventy )'e&l'!I. Professor t.ro1tblo1t8 times. This wu o~rtainly ful- Bl'van justly ch!Ll'Rcteri111ea this devioo as filled in the days of Nehemiah; one I\I\B fant11stic. Hitzig would m11ko the firet only to read th…
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atBnd how "the people of the prince thBt IO 1 Kinge xxi. 13, "curse God and kincr." RhBll oome" oould ba read " the kingdom We take "Moeeiah" here as equivaJ.•nt"to of tho Gentiles," SBV0 by s~ppoeing a some- "the Messiah" above mentioned. Who ie what 11rbitrnry p11mphrase. 'l'he le.et o)ause it that is here referre…
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