[309] Pusey, p. 63.
[310] Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27.
[311] Bevan, p. 66.
[312] The interpretation is first found, amid a chaos of false exegesis, in the Epistle of Barnabas, iv. 4, § 6.
[313] See Bevan, p. 65.
[314] On the distinction in the writer's mind between the Median and Persian Empires see v. 28, 31, vi. 8, 12, 15, ix. 1, xi. 1, compared with vi. 28, x. 1. In point of fact, the Persians and Medians were long spoken of as distinct, though they were closely allied; and to the Medes had been specially attributed the forthcoming overthrow of Babylon: Jer. li. 28, "Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes." Comp. Jer. li. 11, and Isa. xiii. 17, xxi. 2, "Besiege, O Media."
[315] See Isa. ii. 2, xxviii. 16; Matt. xxi. 42-44. "Le _mot_ de Messie n'est pas dans Daniel. Le mot de _Meshiach_, ix. 26, désigne l'autorité (probablement sacerdotale) de la Judée" (Renan, _Hist._, iv. 358).
[316] See Kuenen, _The Prophets_, iii.
[317] No kings have been mentioned, but the ten toes symbolise ten kings. Comp. vii. 24.
[318] Dante, _Inferno_, xiv. 94-120.
[319] Milton, _Paradise Lost_, ii. 575.
[320] It may be paralleled by the legendary prostrations of Alexander the Great before the high priest Jaddua (Jos., _Antt._, XI. viii. 5), and of Edwin of Deira before Paulinus of York (Bæda, _Hist._, ii. 14-16).
[321] Isa. xlvi. 6. The same verbs, "they fall down, yea they worship," are there used of idols.
[322] Comp. Isa. lx. 14: "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet."
[323] Comp. Rom. xiv. 23; Acts xv. 29; Heb. xiii. 9; 1 Cor. viii. 1; Rev. ii. 14, 20.
[324] So Jerome: "Non tam Danielem quam in Daniele adorat Deum, qui mysteria revelavit." Comp. Jos., _Antt._, XI. viii. 5, where Alexander answers the taunt of Parmenio about his προσκύνησις of the high priest: οὐ τοῦτον προσεκύνησα, τὸν δὲ Θεόν.
[325] Acts xiv. 14, 15.
[326] Esther iii. 2. Comp. 1 Chron. xxvi. 30. This corresponds to what Xenophon calls αἱ ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας φοιτήσεις, and to our "right of _entrée_."