Bhadraoh, Ke,haoh, and Abed-nego, and to lonioe. ad genua pertingens." Aquila, it ca,t them into the burniug tl.ery furnaoe. may be noted, also tmnsliterates, <Tapd./3a>.>.a. The first cle.uee might more correctly be Theodotion's rendering is, "Then those render<'d, "He comme.nded warriors, Wl\l'riors men were bound in their coo.ta(?), nnd hnte, of might, in hls army." The Greek versions nnd hoscn, and wero cast into the midst of e.ssume that the repetition of gub"reen is the bnming fiery furnace." The Peshitta equivalent to the 811perlative; hence the does as Theodotion, and transliterates with LXX. renders it &v6pcn i<Txvpo'Tct'Tov,; e.nd the ch1mge of a shin for a samech in regard Th,.oootion, &"6pcu irrxvpo6, irrxtl,. The to the first word, and instead of l•boo~heen, P!'shitta omits the first gub•reen. On the "garments,'' has qoobe'un, which is rencleretl oth<'r hand, Theodotion omits the clause, by Castelli pi1£us, or galea, a "militnry "that were in his army." Tho aotion of oap," or a "helmet." He wrongly snys Nelmchadnez7.sr in this revee.ls one of the that qoob'o is used to translate karb•latl,•l,iin; contmdictions so often manifested by poly- the word used for that is nihtho. We need theism. He might be ready to admit that not go into e. discussion of the various no aN•umulation of human power could garments named _here. It is to be observed <'que.l Divine power, yet it is obvious that that, by the time of the Septuagint and these men of might were chosen for this the original of the version edited and purpose, in order that, despite Divine power, revised by Theodotion, the meaning of the the royal sentence might be carried out. terms was lost-a thing hardly possible Such self-contradiction is not peculie.r to on the critical 811pposition that the date of Nebuchs.dnezzar nor to Be.bylon. Many Do.niel is B.o. 168, if, e.s seems necessary men, professing to be Christiane and ac- to suppose from the Greek prologue to knowledging that God sees and knows all Ecclesie.sticus, it was already translated into things, and the.t the wrath of God is an Greek by, at latest, B.o. 130. The point infinitelv more serious matter than the brought out by these ge.rment.s being men- contempt or "ill will" of men, yet tioned is in order to show the power of God commit sin secretly-to hlde it from God. manifested on them. They were all of an Hitzig indicates that he thlnks these not inflammable material, therefore emphasis to have been the ordine.ry body-guard of we.a given to the miracle by this. But, the kin~, but really the best troops in farther, it shows they were taken as they the province where the festival was taking were, without opportunity of putting on place. It is evident that the troops referred any specially medicated robes, if 81lch could to are not those tabbiiheen of whom Arioch be imagined (but see Longman's, August, was the commo.nder, otherwise we might 1894, reference t.o Basil Thomson's 'South have expected them to be mentioned. We Sea Yarns') . .Im.ow that there were di1ferent classes of Vers. 22, 23.-Therefore beoaue the ki!lg'a soldiers in the Assyrian e.rmy, with di1fering commandment was urgent, and the furnace kinds of e.rms and e.rmour. In all pro- eiceeding hot, the flame of the lire slew bability something similar prevailed in those men that took up Shadraoh, lliteshaoh, the Babylonian army. It is not impossible and Abed-nego. And these three n.e•, Bha- twi.t one corps might be specialized as the drach, lliteshach, and Abed-nego, fell down men of greatest physical strength. These bound into the midst of the burning 11.ery fur- men are employed to bind these three Jews nace. The rendering of the Greek versions to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. seems to he.ve suffered from the interpolation Ver. 21.-Then these men were boUJld in of the Song of the Three Holy Children- their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and the verses before us have been altered to pre• their other garments, and were cast into po.re for the introduction of the song. The the midst of the burning fiery furnace. LXX. translates as follows: " Since the The LXX. omits the complexity of ge.rments, king's command was urgent, and the fur- e.ncl translates, "Thus these men were nace heated sevenfold more than it had bound, having their sande.ls, and their hats previously been, the men- who had been upc,n their head,,, with their other garments, appointed, when they had bound them and e.nd were cast into the burning fiery brought them forwo.rd to the furnace, cast furnace." It would seem that karb'l.ath'}wn them in. 'l'hen the flame which blazed in was either not in the text before the trans- the furnace came forth and slew the men lator or was omitted by him. The latter who had bound those about Azarias, but hypothesis seems a hazardous one to adopt they themselves were preserved." Theo- without good ground. We have no reaso_n dotion renders, "Since the word of the to accuse the 1:'.'eptWJ.gint translator of tl.ne king we.a urgent, and the furnace was ex- practice. Theodotion also presents signs of cessively heated, and these three men fell 0Illlll8lun. r';,:;r:1!:) is not tre.nsle.ted, but simply down bound into the burning fiery furnace, and they fell into the midst of the furnace, 0
tronslitno.ted, rrapa/3rl.po,s. Under this word Sc1ku,;o.<,r aays, "Veatis Medics seu Be.by- and walked about, singing praises to Gou, err. m, 1-30.J TllE llOOK OF DANIEL.