The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 339

dmrn many ten tlumBanrl•. Tliis, most pro- of tl,y people Rhall Lo cxollc•rl to cstal,Ii,h b1tl,ly, refers lo tho completo vidory o.t the vieion, and they shall l:wcr,mc weak." Tinphia, whcro Antiochus was reported to If there wero r1ny trace of un,.crtainty in havo lost ten thousand men. 'fhcre is thus tho reo.ding at this point, wo mii:,;1,t 110 a repetition here of what has o.lrc1tdy been tempted to renrl .\~rTTwv instead of 1v1,µ.-~1·, narrnled. But lrn Bhall not be Blrenr1thened written AHICTWN for AOIMWN. The ri,nd- by it. It is very noticeo.ble tho.t Ptolemy ing of Nestle (.\01,roiv) ie no improvement. did not even nttempt to etrengthen his poei- 'fhe Peshitta renders, "And many shall tiou by vigornuely following up his victory. riso against the king of the north, and tho Vor. 13.-For the king of the north shall sons of the perversity of thy people shall return, and shall set forth a multitude bo raised up to fulfil the vision, an,l shall greater than the former, and shall certainly be cast down." The change from "kin:s of oome after certain years with a great army the south" to "the king of the north" and with much riches, The LXX. does must be noted, probably simply the result not differ essentially from this, only ,r&.\,ws of blander. The Vulgatc renders •:.:~;: pre- comes in nnnecesso.rily by o. blunder-the 1>aricatorum. And in tho,e timea there Bhall less to be understood, o.s there seems no word many atand up again8t the kinr, of fhe aouth. which co.n bo.ve occaeioned the misreading, PtolemyEpiphanes Wa.'I not only exposed to unless it is simply a blunder of bee.ring for the assault of the confedentes Antiochus ,roMfw; but against thie is the fa.et that and Philip of Macedon; but there were in- Paulus Tellensis has m•deenatha. There is trigues and conspiracies in the po.lace. Also also the limitation of the period after the robbera of thy people ahall exalt fhem- which the king of the north will return to sel1>es; literally, the ,ona of the op- "one year" (1<a.1poii iv,a.u.-oii), "e. period of pre8BOTB. Commentators of all varieties a year." Theodotion is closer to the Mo.sso- have assumed that these are Jews. Hitzig retio. The Peshitta is closer tho.n either of maintains that they were the Jews that the Greek versions, a.a neither of them sided with Antiochus's role (' Historical attempts to give," coming he shall come," Exposition of Daniel'); that they were the which it does. The Vulgate is like Theo- separatists, those who had gone down to dotion. The reference here is to the second Egypt (Calvin; Behrmann,' Die Stiirmische expedition against Egypt, undertaken by Jugend '); Keil, "violent men who break Antiochus after the deo.th of Philopator. through Divine law." So Kro.nichfeld and After his victory e.t Ro.phio., Ptolemy re- Wordsworth. Stnart, "the violent of thy sumed his life of self-indulgence. Anti- people; " Ewald, "young high-handed ochus endeavoured to build up his empire men." Fuller thinks the word prizzeem is by curbing the Po.rthians ; then, after e.n need as "rulers." Gratz would render, " to interval of fourteen years, he once more establish the vision, to make the law to invaded the territories of the Egyptian totter "-e.n attempt to get, by addition to monarch. This second invasion resulted in the text, e.n explanation. The Hebrew text Antiochus gaining possession of all Pales- does not bear out this meaning. Gratz tine. here implies p•i;, (hazion), "vision," to be Ver. H:.-And in those times there shall equivalent to mm (torah), "lo.w;" but this many stand up o.gainst the king of the is never the case. But the oppressors of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall people do not necesso.rily belong to it. To exalt themselves to establish the vision; but eBtabluh the vision ( comp. Acts iv. 28). they shall fall. The versions here differ It me.y be that here there is a portion of from this, which represents the Massoretio the original vision of Do.niel, which has with fo.ir o.ccurncy. The LXX. renders, been overlaid with what we have before us. "And in those times thoughts (~,d.vo,a.,) It is a. summary of the whole history of the sho.11 rise ogainst the King of Egypt, nnd Jews under the Greek domination. But he shall build a.go.in tho.t which ho.a they shall fall. A general statement true fa.lien dowu of thy people "-reo.ding ;,n1 of a.JI the oppressors of Israel (oo~anah), "o.nd he shall build," instead of Ver. 15.-So the king of the north she.11 •:1;11 ( oab'nee), " o.nd sons of; " he has read oome, and cast up a mount, and take the o.iso p•ratzee, "breaches," instead of p•ritzee, most fenced cities: and the arms of the "robbers,"-" and he shall raise himself south shall not withstand, neither his ohosen up "-reading singular instead of pluro.l people, neither shall there be any strength -" to fulfil the prophecy, and they shall to withstand. 'l'he version of the LXX. is, stumble." This confusion indicates that "And the king of the north shall o.tte.ck the reading of the LXX. is mistaken. and tum his speo.rs, and sho.11 take the Thoodotion is 118 much removed from the fortified city, and the arma of the King of Massoretio as is the o.bove, "And in those Egypt shall stand with his rulers, and there times many shall rise against the king of the shall not be strength in them to resist south, and the sons of the plagues (.\01,uwv) them." It ill difficult to imagine what  312 THE BOOK OF DA.Nmt. Corr. xr. 1-4~.