The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 297

tuary" UI "r~c''.IP, with the article. He ap- received text, "And thou shalt know and peals to 1 Chron. x:i:iii. 18 ae a case where, understand, from the going forth of the without the article, the phrase applies to an word to determine and build Jerusalem, until the anointed leader, ls seven weeka individual, "P "i' it'•-:,p;f J"i)tt ~J?.'~ (""!libba- snd sixty-two weeks, and he shall return, dayl .Aheron l•heqdee•l10 qod•8h qadasheem), and the broad places and the wall shall be "And he ,0pRrRtc,d Aaron to ee.nctiry him u built, and the times she,ll be dislrossful." n holv of holies." This seome almost the As above remarked, harootz is read instea.d neC<'sBe.ry tre.nsle.tion, despite the versions; of luuheeb. The Peshitta. differs consider- for the prenominal enffi:i: must be the object, ably from the reoeived text, " Thou she.It und "holy of holies" must be in apposition know and understand from the decreeing to it. The e.ct of anointing &S a sign of con- of the word to restore and build Jeru- secration, though applied to the t&bernaole ea.lem, to the coming of the anointed (Exod. xxx. 26; xl. 9), to the altar (d. 10), king, is seven weeks e,nd sixty-two weeks, the Iner (:d. 11 ). is never applied to tbe holy to re.store and build Jerusalem, its we.II, of holies. It is applied most frequently to and 1u pe.laces, at the end of the time." persons; u to Aaron (E:i:od. d. 18), to Se,ul The rendering of the Vetus, as preserved (1 Sam. x. 1), to De.vid (1 Sam. xvi. 8). The to us in Tertullie.n, rans thus, "And thou words of Gabriel thus point forward to e. time ehalt know a.nd perceive and understand when all iniquity shall be reetre.ined, sin from the going forth of the speech a.toned for, and e. priest anointed. ( senno) for the restoring and rebuild- Ver. 25. -Xnow therefore and under- ing of J eruse.lem, even to Christ the ■ta.nd,the.t from the going forth of the com- Leader, &re sixty-two weeks and e. he.If; mandment to restore and to build ;reruae.lem and he shall return and build in joy, and unto the Jlea■iah the Prinoe shall be seven the wall (eon"aUationem), and times shall weelr::B, and three score and two weeks : the be renewed." J erome's rendering is," Know ■treet shall be built again, and the wall, a.nd understand from the going forth of the even in tronblona time&. The version of word that Jerusalem should be again built, the LXX. is widely diJferent from this, even to Christ the Leader, shall be seven "And thou aha.It know and sha.lt under- weeks and sixty-two weeks, e.nd the sqne.res stand and shalt discover that the com- shall be again built and the we.Us in hard mandments a.re determined, and thou shalt times." What cannot fail to impress one build Jernsalem e. city of the Lord." The is the confusion that exists as to the original change in the first olanse is due to a doublet text. Of neceBBity conjectural emendations reading-tiehmah being also read ll8 well have been resorted to, with not much as tuhkagl, which may have become con• e.d vantage. The moat plausible is the fluent ia the Hebrew text before the Sep- suggestion of Professor Devan to read tua,,,""lllt uuslator wrote. Instead of min- l<lwBhub, " to repeople," instead of l•haeheeb, m.otJ:a, he mnst have read "'timtza, derivillg " to restore; " but there is no sign in the this, not from ~ (yat.za ), " to go forth," versions of such a. reading being e.ccepted. but from N~ (matza), "to find "-a. reading On the whole, e. ree.di.ng not far removed from the received has probability in ita that is opposed by the fa.et that many manu- favour. Going forth of the commandment ,0 scripts write the word pl.enJ,m, NJ1C. Dabar restore and to build Jerwakm. To whe.t does mmt have been in the plural, and some this refer? Hengstenberg (' Christology,' such word as neh•ratzeem mlll!t have been iiL 128) says," There can be no doubt that supplied instead of hashe-eb. The fa.et, motza dabar signifies the issue of the de- however, that the same cha.nge occurs in cree." This view has the advantage that Theodotion might render it at least pos- in ver. 23 we have the same combination, oible that this was the word in the text, -o, Nr (yatza dabar), "a oommand went but Panlns Telleneis mnst have had a. forth." The probability is e.lwe.ye in favour different ree,diog, "Thou she.It find the of holding e. word not to change its mea.ning precepts for answering; " a marginal read- in contignous verses, unless there is some ing adds, "o.nd for the understanding the indication th,at e. change he.s taken place. weeks." In the next clause, i:1'P.I (oom- Other commentators assume e.s strongly ,-,eeth,a) instead of ri\J.;17 (Ulhwth ), a.n.d in- that the word must be the word of the stead of ,i:, ('adh) ,I? ('eer), must have been Lord to Jeremiah ; hence Bevan renders read, and " Mes;,ie,h the Prince" ha.s been dabar, "promise," without so much o.s a. pa.r"phraaed into K"pl,,.. The last cla.use hint the,t there can be any doubt in $he Iuay Le regarded u omitted. Not im• matter. Behrm&nn takes the ~. the sign of 1.ussibly this may have result.ed from the the infinitive, as being equivalent tout, and end of tLe one verse being so like the that hence this is a case of indirect speech- Leginning of the next. Theodotion's ren• e. W!&ge gravely to ho suspected, as certainly aerir,g i,, mnch more in agreement with the unexampled elsewhere in Biblical Hebrew, Oil, IX, 1-27,] THE BOOK OF DANIEL. 269