A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... nina, 8: 18. 10: 9. -- aso yvpa, 9: 27. 11: 31. 12: 11. ---OX for Palestine, 8: 9. 11: 16, 41. Compare also the various cases in which Daniel is mentioned and commended, 2: 26. 4:8, 18. 10: 1. 5: 11. 9: -23. 10: 11, 19. The repetition of more or less of passages in nearly the same words, may be seen in 3: 7, 10, 15. 4: 10 seq. and 20 seq. al. These are by no means all the resemblances and affinities of different parts of the book. Nothing can be more palpable, than that these different parts, both historical and prophetic, come from the same source, and that in the whole there is a unity and completeness of design. There is not a structure on the whole area of sacred ground, in which the parts are more homogeneous, better fitted to each other, or more firmly dovetailed together, than the one before us. That Bertholdt should imagine the book to comprise nine or even seven authors, would be unaccountable in any ordinary case -- but still it is nothing very strange for him. 6. Genuineness and Authenticity of the Book. I join these two categories together, because it is difficult to treat of them separately, without making many repetitions. If the book be genuine, i. e. if it be the production of Daniel the prophet, then is it of course authentic, and has a fair claim to a place in the Canon. The objections made to the genuineness of the book are numerous, and are urged with great confidence and earnestness, by nearly the whole corps of neological critics. They have even shaken the faith of some, who receive most of the other sacred books as authentic. Indeed it has of late been confidently and somewhat frequently declared, that/ui