xi. 32—34 l with reference to Daniel's being a prophet, although by many of the Jews he was not considered as one of the prophets. A slight cause may frequently produce an important error. In the Latin Bibles, the apocryphal writings were long aero mixed with the canonical books according to the connection
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of their subjects, and were distinguished from them in the index of books by certain marks, as one may see in MSS. ; in process of time, this caution, feeble at best, having been neglected, they came to be considered canonical. On the other hand, since they who first collected the books of the Old Testament into one volume, did not possess the book of Daniel, that book, which was written both at a later period and also out of Palestine, was added to the Hagiographa; not inappropriately indeed, since the weeks predicted by Daniel began to be fulfilled in Ezra iv. 24 ; yet from this circumstance, some persons thought that Daniel was not a prophet at all, as he was not placed with the prophets, and as they furthermore disliked the occupation of ex amining his prophetical periods. The Great Prophet, however, confirms his claim to the prophetical character. — effrug, standing} It should be written thus (not larog),2 even in the neuter : for effru; is contracted from earabs, whence also we find sffrura, in Luke v. 2 — svearura, in Rom. viii. 38, etc. It must be referred to iSdsXuyfta, the abomination — already firmly standing, and des tined long to stand. An instance of Prosopopoeia. — sv ™<rw ay/w, on (or in) a (or the) holy place} In Dan. ix. 27, the LXX. have fat rb hpov, on the holy place (or the temple). The time of flight is joined in Luke xxi. 20 with the actual moment of the ap proach of the army; and Eusebius mentions (H. E. iii. 5), that at that very time the Divine warning to fly had been repeated. The holy place, therefore, does not here signify the temple, or the holy of holies, for it would have been too late to flee after that had been profaned, but a definite place without and near
1 " The Prophets, who — stopped the mouths of lions :" with which com pare Dan. vi. 22. — ED.
2 Lachm. and Tisch. read IffroV, withB corrected later (and D corrected ?) LA. The rough Alexandrine forms have been retained in the best editions of the LXX., edited from the Vatican MS. They ought to have been also retained in the New Testament : and they would have been, had the latter been edited from the oldest MSS. instead of from those inferior ones used by the originators of the Textus Receptus. — Eu.