Daniel: Signs and Wonders (International Theological Commentary | ITCe)
Overview
From start to finish, Robert A. Anderson’s commentary depicts Daniel as an exemplar of loyalty to God, a faithful Jew in an alien culture. As such Daniel is a source of inspiration for those who find themselves in parallel circumstances—beset by the disadvantages of their subservient position, faced with the threat of dire physical suffering and even death, and enticed to apostasy. Like Joseph in Egypt, however, Daniel does not withdraw from the world but participates in it. And through prayer, adherence to Torah, and trust in his God—who is in fact the God of the world—Daniel perseveres and is enabled to triumph over the world.
Top Highlights
“All in all, eleven Persian kings reigned during this period” (Page 129)
“Monotheists have but one choice, and one only, and having made it they leave themselves with no other god to deploy against the One they have chosen or been chosen by. The attraction of polytheism is that it widens every choice; it imposes no limitation. It would have saved the lives of Shadrach and his two companions without the necessity of a miracle.” (Page 33)
“Nor is there much comfort for Daniel in v. 10. Again the two strict categories emerge, the obedient and the disobedient, the faithful and the apostate, those who through their suffering will be refined, and those who through their blindness will be confirmed in their own wickedness.” (Page 152)
“Neither here nor anywhere else in the Hebrew Scriptures is there an underwritten guarantee that every faithful Jew will be delivered from the consequences of his or her devotion to God should circumstances produce a threat to that person’s life.” (Page 35)
“There is little distance between the Fiery Furnace and the Holocaust” (Page 29)
Product Details
- Title: Signs and Wonders: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel
- Author: Robert A. Anderson
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 1984
- Pages: 158