[158] Any apparently requisite modification of these words will be considered hereafter.
[159] _On Revelations_, vol. i., p. 408 (E. Tr.).
[160] "Dient bei ihnen die Zukunft der Gegenwart, und ist selbst fortgesetzte _Gegenwart_" (Behrmann, _Dan._, p. xi).
[161] See M. de Pressensé, _Hist. des Trois Prem. Siècles_, p. 283.
[162] See some admirable remarks on this subject in Ewald, _Die Proph. d. Alt. Bund._, i. 23, 24; Winer, _Realwörterb._, _s.v._ "Propheten" Stähelin, _Einleit._, § 197.
[163] Comp. Enoch i. 2.
[164] Ewald, _Die Proph._, i. 27; Michel Nicolas, _Études sur la Bible_, pp. 336 ff.
[165] Comp. Mic. iii. 12; Jer. xxvi. 1-19; Ezek. i. 21. Comp. xxix. 18, 19.
[166] Deut. xviii. 10.
[167] _System der christlichen Lehre_, p. 66.
[168] _E.g._, in the case of Josiah (1 Kings xiii. 2).
[169] _De Coronâ_, 73: ἰδεῖν τὰ πράγματα ἀρχόμενα καὶ προαισθέσθαι καὶ προειπεῖν τοῖς ἄλλοις.
[170] The symbolism of numbers is carefully and learnedly worked out in Bähr's _Symbolik_: cf. Auberlen, p. 133. The _several_ fulfilments of the prophesied seventy years' captivity illustrate this.
[171] Hengstenberg, _On Revelations_, p. 609.
[172] All these particulars may be found, without any allusion to the Book of Daniel, in the admirable article on the Apocrypha by Dean Plumptre in Dr. Smith's _Dict. of the Bible_.
[173] Ewald, _Gesch. Isr._, iv. 541.
[174] "Et non tam Danielem _ventura dixisse_ quam illum _narrasse præterita_" (Jer.).
[175] "Ad intelligendas autem extremas Danielis partes multiplex Græcorum historia necessaria est" (Jer., _Proæm. Explan. in Dan. Proph. ad f._). Among these Greek historians he mentions _eight_ whom Porphyry had consulted, and adds, "Et si quando cogimur litterarum sæcularium recordari ... non nostræ est voluntatis, sed ut dicam, _gravissimæ necessitatis_." We know Porphyry's arguments mainly through the commentary of Jerome, who, indeed, derived from Porphyry the historic data without which the eleventh chapter, among others, would have been wholly unintelligible.