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[1] {Syriack}
From Dan. 2.4 to 7.28 the Book of Daniel is written in \\Aramaic\\
the ancient language of Syria, and substantially identical with
\\Chaldaic\\, the language of ancient Babylonia. Upon this fact,
together with the occurrence of fifteen Persian, and three Greek words
has been based an argument against the historicity of Daniel, and in
favour of a date after the conquest of Palestine by Alexander
(B.C. 332).
It has, however, seemed, with some modern exceptions, to the Hebrew
and Christian scholarship of the ages an unanswerable proof rather of
the Danielic authorship of the book that, living from boyhood in a
land the language of which was Chaldaic, a great part of his writing
should be in that tongue. It has often been pointed out that the
Chaldaic of Daniel is of high antiquity, as is shown by comparison
with that of the Targums. The few words of Persian and Greek in like
manner confirm the writer's residence at a court constantly visited
by emissaries from those peoples. It is noteworthy that the Aramaic
section is precisely that part of Daniel which most concerned the
peoples amongst whom he lived, and to whom a prophecy written in
Hebrew would have been unintelligible. The language returns to
Hebrew in the predictive portions which have to do with the future of
Israel. "The Hebrew of Daniel is closely related to that of
Ezekiel."--Delitzsch.
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[1] {great image}
The monarchy-vision. Nebuchadnezzar's dream, as interpreted by Daniel,
gives the course and end of "the times of the Gentiles"
# Lu 21:24
» See Note "Re 16.19
that is, of Gentile world-empire. The four metals
composing the image are explained as symbolizing (vs. 38-40) four
empires, not necessarily possessing the inhabited earth, but able to do
so (v.38), and fulfilled in Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece (under
Alexander), and Rome. The latter power is seen divided, first into two
(the legs), fulfilled in the Eastern and Western Roman empires, and then
into ten (the toes)
» See Note "Dan. 7.26
As a whole, the image gives the imposing outward greatness and splendour
of the Gentile world-power.
The smiting Stone
# Da 2:34,35
destroys the Gentile world-system (in its final form) by a sudden and
irremediable blow, not by the gradual processes of conversion and
assimilation; and then, and not before, does the Stone become a
mountain which fills "the whole earth." (Cf.
# Da 7:26,27
Such a destruction of the Gentile monarchy-system did not occur
at the first advent of Christ. On the contrary, He was put to death by
the sentence of an officer of the fourth empire, which was then at the
zenith of its power. Since the crucifixion the Roman empire has followed
the course marked out in the vision, but Gentile world dominion still
continues, and the crushing blow is still suspended. The detail of the
end-time is given in Dan. 7.1-28, and Re 13.-19. It is important to see
(1) that Gentile world-power is to end in a sudden catastrophic judgment
(see "Armageddon,"
# Re 16:14 19:21
(2) that it is immediately followed by the kingdom of heaven, and that
the God of the heavens does not set up His kingdom till after the
destruction of the Gentile world-system. It is noteworthy that
Gentile world-dominion begins and ends with a great image.
# Da 2:31 Re 13:14,15