The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 277

prcl11lion, but, euepicioue of them, he still fell on hill foce, overwhelmed at contad continued hie search. In nnewer to Daniel'e with the spiritual. It is mcnt.ionc,l as if eoarch, there stood before him one having this were the no.tural result of snch cm "tho nppenrnnce of 11, man (gabeT) "-e.n interview as tho.t vouchs11fcd to Daniel. At ongolio boiug in hume.n form. 'fhe Hebrew first sight this contra.diets eh. vii. 16, whrore word tre.nslnted "me.n " is gabe,-, which Daniel interrogates one of the o.ngclic by- eu~geete the name given to the e.ngel, standers. In tho first pince, eh. vii. 1;; "Gabriel." shows that D&niel had been grieved an,! Vor. 16.-And I heard a man's voice disturbed before he ventured on the ques- between tho be.nke of Ulai, which called, tion; and, next, Gabriel was one of the grent and se.id, Gabriel, make this man to under- angels that stood before God. Gabriel ad- stand the vision. The Septuagint has e.n dressed Daniel by the title so often given to addition," And the me.n ce.lled out, se.ying, Ezekiel," son of man," ben--adam. Professor To the.t purpose is the vision." This seems Fuller, e.nd also Kranichfeld, remark on the to be o. gloss. Theodotion o.nd the Peshitle. contrast between Gabriel, "Hero of God," e.gree with the Me.seoretic, only the.t Thco- e.nd ben--adam, "son of man." The time of dotion does not indico.te the difference of the end does not mean the end of the world, the word used for " man " in this verse from or of the appearance of the Messiah, for in tho.t in ver. 15, e.nd renders Ulo.i "Oubo.l." this vision there is no reference to either of " Between Ulo.i" is o. singule.r phrase. The these. It is rather to be rendered, after the versions do not o.ttempt e.ny solution. The analogy of Jer. 1. 26, where miqqetz means preposition bayin meo.ne neuo.lly "between." "from the utmost border," and reaches to If we e.esume tho.t the river Ulo.i is here a far-off time. meo.nt, and that it divided into two bro.nchce, Ver. 18.-Now e.s he was speaking with the thing is explico.ble. Only it would me, I we.a in e. deep sleep on my face toward he.ve been more in accorde.nce with usage to the ground: but he touched me, e.nd set me he.ve put "Ulo.i" in the plure.l. It mo.y, upright. The LXX. joins the opening perhaps, refer to the marsh, in which case words of the next verse to this. I waB in a it might be between the citadel and the d.eep sleep suggests the case of the three marsh. Daniel he.d seen the e.ppee.re.nce of apostles, Peter, James, and John, on the a man; now he hears e. voice addressing the Mount of Transfiguration (Luke u. 32). man, e.nd ne.ming him Gabriel, '' Hero of The numbing effect of the presence of the God." It ie to be noted that this is the supernatural produces a state analogous to ee.rliest inste.nce of the naming of angels in sleep, yet "the eyes a.re open" (Numb. Scripture. In the tenth cho.pter Miche.el is xxiv. 4)-the senses are ready to convey also ne.med. Theae are the only e.ngelic impressions to the mind. The angel, how- no.mes in the whole of Scripture. These two ever, touched Daniel, and set him upright. names, and these alone, recur in the New Ver. 19.-And he se.id, Behold, I will Teste.ment, the first of them in the first me.ke thee know what shall be in the last chapter of Luke, e.nd the second in Rev. end of the indignation: for at the time ap- xii. 7 e.nd Jude. The Book of Tobit e.dded pointed the end she.ll be. The Septuagint another angelic no.me on the same lines, here inserts e. clause after "indignation." Raphe.el. When we pass to the Books of It reads, " on the children of thy people." Enoch, we have moBt elaborate hierarchies It may have been inserted from eh. xii. 1, of angels, in e.11 of which, however much only it is used in such a different sense that they may otherwise differ, occur the two that.does not seem very likely. It may have angels mentioned hero o.nd Raphe.el. The been in the original text, o.nd dropped out difference in atmosphere between the not unlikely by homoioteleuton. The missing elaborate nngelology of Enoch and the clause would he 1?1?' '.P SI?', the lBSt word of reticent accounts in the book before us is which is like 0111: On the other hand, its great. It is he.rdly possible to imo.gine so omission from Theodotion and the Peshitta. greot II difference between the works of is not so easily intelligible. 'fheodotion is men thnt were o.11 but contemporaries. The in close agreement with the Massoret.ic text. function assigned to Gabriel here is in The Peshitia is wore brief, practically accordance with that he fulfils in the New omitting the last clause. We have here the Testament-he is to me.ke Daniel "under- referenoe to the end, as in ver. 17 it is not stand the vision." the end of the world tho.t is in the mint.! of Ver. 17.-So he came nea.r where I stood: the writer, but the" end of the indignation." and when he ea.me, I was afraid, and fell The Jews, while maintaining their gal!tt..nt upon my fe.ce: but ha ea.id unto me, Under- struggle against Epiphanes, have need of stand, O son of me.n: for at the time of the being assured that the battle will h,we an end shull be the vision. The versions ure end, and one determined before by God. hero in olose ngreement with the Mo.sso- The angel has to make Do.niel know the rctio text. On Gabriel's 11pproaoh D1micl enu of the iucliguatiun. It way be ~o.iJ  THE BOOK OF DANIEL. [err. vnr. 1-27,