The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 111

ornoy n.nd the will of the people. All this is which he revised. The Peshitta doos not cloomcd to be overthrown by the coming of call for rema.rk, eave that it 11g7eee with the Meeel11nio kingdom, Thoodotion in tranelo.ting Nt1:llll (nitz'ba.. Vore. 41-43.-And where111 thou 111we■t thah) "root." Jerome renders it planttniwm. the feet and toe ■, part of potter's olay, and This new development of the image ie to be p11rt of iron, the kingdom ahall be divided: regarded, not e.s another empire, but ae the but there shall be in it of the ■trength of the out1,'lowth of the fourth kingdom. Thie ie iron, for11amuoh 111 thou 111we1t the iron clear from the fact that there ie no new E!llb- mixed with miry ola.y. And as the toes of the stance introduced of which the feet and toes feet were p11rt of iron, and part of olay, so a.re wholly made up, but the iron is mingled the kingdom shall be partly strong, and with a new and inferior substance, potter's partly broken, And whereaa thou 111we1t clay. The numerioe.l mark "ten," which ill iron mixed With miry olay, they ■hall mingle to be regarded e.s the peculiar distinctive themselves with the seed of men: but they sign of the fonrth empire, is in the toes. shall not oleave one to another, even III iron This last empire, whe.tever it may be to.ken is not mixed with olay, 'fhe version of the to be, is one the.t splits itself up into ap- Septuagint ie worthy of notice here, "And proximately ten parts or sub-kingdoms. rui thou eawest (hast seen, U,pa1<as) its feet Further, there shall be a foreign element and t.oes were partly of potter's c!a.y, and introduced which shall not harmonize with partly of iron. Another kingdom shall be the origins.I ma.terial. Professor Bevan divided in itself, as thou so.west the iron is certain the.t the reference is "to the mingled with the miry clay, and the toes of marrie.ges of the Ptolemies with the Se- the feet were partly of iron and partly of leuoidm." Notwithstanding that Professor clay, pa.rt of the kingdom shall be strong, Bevan states this view as if it could and pa.rt shall be broken. And ae thou not be doubted, it is evidently fa.lee. Both ea.west the iron mingled with the miry clay, the Lagids and the Seleucids were Mo.ce- there shall be mixinge ( 1rvµ.µ.,..,,,is) to the donia.ns, and there we.a no natnre.l incompati- generation ( ..,,,v,1r111) of mankind (av8pd,.,,.,,,), bility. U marriage is intended here, and but they shall not agree nor be well affected if the fourth monarchy were the Hellenic, one to another, just as (IJ,1r1r,p) iron cannot more sensible would have been the sugges- be compounded with clay." It may be ob- tion that it referred to the Hellenizing of Derved here that a clause is omitted from South-Westem Allia,-the miscegenation of ver. 41, "but there shall be in it of the the peoples ine.ngura.ted by Alexe.nder the strength of the iron." In the forty-third Great, only it did not proceed very fa,. verse the difference is due to 11:,7 as infinitive Further, it did not signalize the end of the of the verb "to aow," that is to say, the Greek rule, but really the beginning of it. transh1.tor must have read )1"110~ instead of We admit carte.inly that the LXX. translates in a we.y that snggests the ma.rrie.ge of a ''1:l J1i1~. The addition of ll.M71 has had superior with an inferior race. But there is its origin in a falae ide11 th11t the feet and no reference in reality to ma.rrie.ge, hut to toes of the image represented o. new world- the mingling of two distinct culture-ele- dominion. Theodotion renders, " Because ments, the infusion of be.rbe.rous races into (o'Tt).thou ea.west the feet and the toes pa.rt the midst of a civilized; and the barbe.rie.ns of potter's clay, and part of iron, e. kingdom taking on some of the outward forms of shall be divided, and there will be in it civilize.tion would represent better the from the iron root in like me.nner e.e thou thing indicated. But to to.ke this e.s so.west the iron mingled with the potter's referring to the marriage of the Seleu- clay. And the toes of the feet were pe.rtly cids o.nd La.gids is certainly as wrong as iron, e.nd partly clay, po.rt of the kingdom wrong can be, e.lthough it is held by Moses shall be strong, e.nd po.rt of it shall be Stue.rt,· Hitzig, Ewald, as well e.s Pro- broken (being broken, <TvvTp</Joµ.<>ov) ; be- fessor Bevan. Not one of them shows cause thou so.west the iron mingled with which, the Seleucid or the La.gid, is "the the potte1·'s clay, there she.11 be mixings clay," "the seed of men," and which the with the seed of men: but they she.ll not governing power or race the.t mingles with o.dhere one to another, even o.s iron is not them. Yet the inferiority of the clay is an mingled with clay." Neither in Syrio.o nor essential element in the symbolism. Hott:. Che.Idea has n•tzab the meaning " to be mann's idea., that there is reference to the firm;" nitz'bthah means, in later Aro.me.io, ml\rrie.go of tho Emperor Otto II. and the " e. seedling." Origine.lly, however, it Russian gro.nddukc 1\"11\dimir with the meant "to confirm," "to set up," "to daughters of the Byzantine emperor, is strengthen," ns the Hebrew :ii:~ (yatzab) and equally far-fetched. Certainly the intrusion :l~) (natzab). This meaning hnd been lost into the Roman Empire of the Germe.nio sight of by the time Theodotion wrote, or tribes on the one side, and of the Arabs =d possibly before the transln.tion was m11de Turks on the other, isan interpretiition much  '7Z Tll.E BOOK OJ:1' DANIEL. (en. II, 1-•HJ,