'riew 1uo forcible. Although 7.,. p;>, "from" yea.re, we have A.D. 1927. The Molrnm- and " to," are eometimee used for ,11 ... Jr,,, mcdan power may ha.vo fa.lien by tbat tim'l; anything may have happened thP,n. All "from ... unUI," it is rare, e.nd the intmsion these various solutions, a.II more or less un- of ,, "and," is strong against this interpre- satisfactory, prove that no solution is possible. tation. Yet it seems strange that two If the fulfilment is yet in the future, circum- termini a quo should be assigned e.nd no ter- stances may convey to us the interpretation. afoua ad quem. A thousand two hundred We must remember the vision was BP,alc<l. and ninety days. While this seems to be to" the time of the enrl." Professor Fuller the ea.me period e.e that reckoned in the mggests that Babylonian discovery may at seventh verse, "a time, times, and half a some future date throw light on Daniel'a time," yet it is not absolutely coincident. It use of numbers. is thirty days more the.n three and a he.If Ver. 12.-Blessed is ha that waiteth, and times the prophetic year of three hundred oometh to the thousand three hundred a. nd and sixty, and eleven daye more than three five and thirty days. None of the versions and a half mean solar yea.re. As we have occa.sion any remark. Ble88ed is he that already ea.id, if we take the profanation of waiteth. It might be rendered, Oh the blessed- the temple, 25th Ca.eleu, 145 Seleucid era., nesses of him that waiteth ! This implies as our starting-point, it is impossible to fix that forty-five days or years afkr the any great deliverance or any event of im- unknown event that terminates the twelve portance which happened some three yea.re hundred and ninety days, another event and seven months after. Antiochns ma.y of yet more mrpa.ssing interest, and have died seven months after the news fraught with yet greater benefit, shall arrived of the reconsecration of the temple; occru. It seems most natural to regard but we have no de.ta. As a.hove stated, this period a.a including in it that which the death of Antiochue wrought but little precedes, though there is no grammatical alteration in the condition of the Jews. reason why this period should not com- If we regard the days o.e literal days, there mence at the expiry of the twelve hun<lred is one period that nearly coincides with the and ninety days. In the latter case we twelve hundred and ninety days-ow are fully more at sea than before. Lord's ministry upon the earth. It is Ver. I3.-11ut go thou thy way till the difficult to understand how ow Lord's end be : for tl!ou Bhalt rest, and stand in commencing hie ministry wa.s the removing thy lot at the end of the days. The Sep- of the daily sacrifice. Yet in the " heaven- tuagint Version here differs considerably lies " it might be so. Further, we some- from the Massoretic, "Go thy way and rest, times reckon " from" a period to come, as for there a.re days and hours till the ful- we can say," We are yet - - weeks from filment of the end; and thou aha.It rest and hq.rveet, midsummer, or Christmas." So arise to thy glory at the end of days." the Crucifixion as the fulfilment of all the Theodotion closely resembles the LXX. in 1111.crifices of the Law may be regarded as.their his rendering of this verse, "But go thou removal. Certainly in hie crucifixion wa.s a.nd rest, for there are yet days a.nd hours the real abomination which ma.keth desolate to the fulfilment of the end, am! thou shalt set up. It suits the next verse. From our arise in thy lot at the end of do.ye." The Lord's orucifixion to hie ascension there Peshitta renders, "Go, Daniel, to the end, would be exactly forty-five days if, as is rest and arise at thy time at the end of commonly believed, his ascension, as his de.ye." The Vulga.te agrees with the resurrection, took place on a Sunday. This, Madsoretic text. As to the additional clause however, is merely a thought thrown out. which appears in the version of the LXX. If we take the date indicated by our Lord, a.nd in Theodotion, Origen has appended the war against the Jews, dating from the mark which indicates that these words Vespasio.n's maroh to Ptolemais m the were only found in the L X.X., or, a.t a.11 beginning of A.D. 67 to the capture of the events, had nothing corresponJ.ing to them temple o.nd the cesention of the dnily in tho Hebrew text of his dav. Go thou sacrifice (Josephus,' Dell. Jud.,' vi. 2. 1), is thy m,y. Daniel is dismissed in peace, not far off twelve hundred and ninety dnys. without having his question answered. From this to the final captruo of the city Before Daniel was a course, and on that is close upon forty-five cia.ys. If we, how- course he was to go, without occupying his ever, tnko a day for e. yenr, then another thoughts with this secret thing. There is 1orice of possible solutions !lrO before us, llll no worJ. for " way " in the Hebrew or in more or less faulty. Ono has tho merit of any of the olcler versions. Till the encl. The postponin.,. the solution to a dnte still future. versions tr,mspose this clause with that The co.pt;;'re of Jeruslllcm by the Arabs in which follows. "The end" is not natumlly .&.D. 637 is mnde tho starting-point; if we the end of Daniel's life, for that ought to add w that twelve hlllldred e.nd ninety be " thy end;" still, the next clalllle see= 842 THE BOOK OF DANlEJ,. [on. xn. 1-13.
to ne<1l'esil11w this. Hit.ii~ would interpret most interprcteJ'!I-" rest" in tho grave. .And the word qaytc aa "goal' (iiel); but it is ,tand t'n thy lot at t/1e end of the day,. In not the nmal meaning of the word, and is J er. xiii. 25 "lot" is used for what is as• not eo used elsewhere in this passage. signed by the jndgment of God. "Standing Professor Robertson Smith's suggestion in the lot" primarily suggests one to.king (Bevan, 20i), that the word :i:p. (qaytc) ie due poeeeesion of what he.a been assigned by to a mistake of a copyist, who hae inserted Divine judgment. It is objected by Hitzig it wrongly, ie worthy of consideration. For the.t the verb "to stand " doos not mean to tho11 shall reel. Thie ie rendered by Hitzig, rise from the dee.d, whioh ie true ; but the "und magat ruhig ecin "-" and you may be conneotion neoessitatcs this meaning, and at rest." The fulfilment of the profhecy was as the idea of resurrection he.d not received for a time long future, and Danie need not theologioe.l definition, no technical word disturb himself. Against this interpretation would he.ve thc exclusive ole.im to be used. is the fact that the verb n~ (n~). here Even now we do not alwe.ys use " resur- tre.nslated " rest," never has the subjective rection," e.nd in poetry rarely do. "The mee.niug whioh Hitzig here attaohee to it. end of de.ye " must mean the end of time The natural view is that of Ewald and e.ftor the resurrection.