A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (ICC)
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“The prevailing interpretation of this passage as of the death of Jesus Christ is actually late and secondary in Christian exegesis, first making its appearance in the Christian translations, the Syriac and the Vulgate, where משיח is translated ‘King Messiah’, ‘Christus.’” (Page 382)
“Here, with most recent scholars, it is held that with the Seventy Weeks a definite, not intentionally indefinite, datum of time is meant, for how else would the divine ‘word’ satisfy Dan.’s inquiry, v. 2?” (Page 373)
“The literary rearrangement effected by the Hellenistic Jews in the order of their Canon attached Dan., with its Apocryphal satellites regarded as one with it, to the Major Prophets, where it ranked fourth (but in the lists of Melito and Eusebius as preceding Eze.); s. Swete, Int., Part II, c. 1. For a full catena of the evidence s. R. D. Wilson, ‘The Bk. of Dan. and the Canon,’ Princeton Theol. Rev., 13, 352–408.8 For the views of the authorities in the Talmud, for whom Daniel was not a ‘prophet,’ s. §23; this lower rating of course never derogated from the actual canonicity of the bk.” (Page 5)
“The word translated ‘destroy,’ ישחית, is generally taken in the physical sense, so 8:24; 11:17, but there was little destruction effected by the Greeks in the Holy City; it may then be understood in its moral sense, ‘corrupt,’” (Page 383)
“The theme is an early dramatic instance of the outwitting of an innocent ruler by his own laws; Dr. compares the case of Herod, Mt. 14. This legal point clinched, Dan. is denounced. 15, (14). Then the king … was sore vexed [not, ‘at himself,’ with AV], and on Dan. he set his mind to deliver him; and he was striving till sunset to rescue him. ‘Striving’ is the picture of the animal caught in the toils; he consulted the lawyers, he tried to browbeat the conspirators. 16, (15). The latter resorted again to the king in the evening and impudently demanded their prey. 17, (16). The king had to yield. But his admiration for Dan. made him express the assurance that the latter’s God would deliver him—in striking contrast to Neb.’s impiety, 3:15. 18, (17).” (Page 275)
- Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel
- Author: James A. Montgomery
- Editors: Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs
- Publisher: T & T Clark
- Publication Date: 1927
- Pages: 482
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