Barnes' Notes: Daniel, vol. 1

by Albert Barnes

Publisher:

Blackie & Son

, 1853

Overview

Albert Barnes and James Murphy wrote this verse-by-verse commentary on Daniel. Published in the 1800s, it is still well-loved and well-read by evangelicals who appreciate Barnes' pastoral insights into the Scripture. It is not a technical work, but provides informative observations on the text, intended to be helpful to those teaching Sunday School. Today, it is ideally suited to anyone teaching or preaching the Word of God, whether a professional minister or layperson.

Contents

Top Highlights

“‘He was so happy as to have strange revelations made to him, and those as to one of the greatest of the prophets; insomuch that while he was alive he had the esteem and applause both of Kings and of the multitude, and now he is dead he retains a remembrance that will never fail. For the several books that he wrote and left behind him are still read by us till this time, and from them we believe that he conversed with God; for he not only prophesied of future events, as did the other prophets, but he also determined the time of their accomplishment.” (Page 39)

“speaking great things,’ is the Papacy, not Antiochus Epiphanes, as Eichhorn, Bertholdt, Bleek, Stuart, and others” (Page vi)

“Daniel, supposed commonly to be the same person as the author of this book, is twice mentioned by Ezekiel, once as deserving to be ranked with Noah and Job, and once as eminent for wisdom. ‘Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God’ (Ezek. 14:14). ‘Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee’ (Ezek. 28:3).” (Page 1)

“(1.) The first is, that in the time of the exile, the doctrine of the Messiah had not become so developed that it” (Page 28)

“that what is there said is based on the belief of that doctrine, and implies that the doctrine was so commonly” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Barnes' Notes: Daniel, vol. 1
• Authors: Albert Barnes and James Murphy
• Publisher: Blackie & Son
• Publication Date: 1853
• Pages: 336

About Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (1825–1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1830–1867).

He held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians during the Old School-New School Controversy, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in 1837. In 1836, he had been tried (but not convicted) for heresy, mostly due to the views he expressed in Notes on Romans of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement; the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church. He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their class. Of the well-known Notes on the New Testament, it is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by 1870. The Notes on Job, the Psalms, Isaiah and Daniel were also popularly distributed. The popularity of these works rested on how Barnes simplified Biblical criticism so that new developments in the field were made accessible to the general public.