The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel
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Farrar Frederic William. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel
AUTHORITIES CONSULTED
PART I
CHAPTER I. THE HISTORIC EXISTENCE OF THE PROPHET DANIEL
CHAPTER II. GENERAL SURVEY OF THE BOOK
1. The Language
2. The Unity of the Book
3. The General Tone of the Book
4. The Style of the Book
5. The Standpoint of the Author
6. The Moral Element
CHAPTER III. PECULIARITIES OF THE HISTORIC SECTION
CHAPTER IV. GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
CHAPTER V. THE THEOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL
CHAPTER VI. PECULIARITIES OF THE APOCALYPTIC AND PROPHETIC SECTION OF THE BOOK
CHAPTER VII. INTERNAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER VIII. EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR OF THE GENUINENESS UNCERTAIN AND INADEQUATE
CHAPTER IX. EXTERNAL EVIDENCE AND RECEPTION INTO THE CANON
CHAPTER X. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
PART II. COMMENTARY ON THE HISTORIC SECTION
CHAPTER I. THE PRELUDE
CHAPTER II. THE DREAM-IMAGE OF RUINED EMPIRES
CHAPTER III. THE IDOL OF GOLD, AND THE FAITHFUL THREE
CHAPTER IV. THE BABYLONIAN CEDAR, AND THE STRICKEN DESPOT
CHAPTER V. THE FIERY INSCRIPTION
CHAPTER VI. STOPPING THE MOUTHS OF LIONS
PART III. THE PROPHETIC SECTION OF THE BOOK
CHAPTER I. VISION OF THE FOUR WILD BEASTS
CHAPTER II. THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT
CHAPTER III. THE SEVENTY WEEKS
CHAPTER IV. INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCLUDING VISION
CHAPTER V. AN ENIGMATIC PROPHECY PASSING INTO DETAILS OF THE REIGN OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES
CHAPTER VI. THE EPILOGUE
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We propose in the following pages to examine the Book of the Prophet Daniel by the same general methods which have been adopted in other volumes of the Expositor's Bible. It may well happen that the conclusions adopted as regards its origin and its place in the Sacred Volume will not command the assent of all our readers. On the other hand, we may feel a reasonable confidence that, even if some are unable to accept the views at which we have arrived, and which we have here endeavoured to present with fairness, they will still read them with interest, as opinions which have been calmly and conscientiously formed, and to which the writer has been led by strong conviction.
All Christians will acknowledge the sacred and imperious duty of sacrificing every other consideration to the unbiassed acceptance of that which we regard as truth. Further than this our readers will find much to elucidate the Book of Daniel chapter by chapter, apart from any questions which affect its authorship or age.
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VI. In ii. 46, after the interpretation of the dream, "the King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him." This is another of the immense surprises of the Book. It is exactly the kind of incident in which the haughty theocratic sentiment of the Jews found delight, and we find a similar spirit in the many Talmudic inventions in which Roman emperors, or other potentates, are represented as paying extravagant adulation to Rabbinic sages. There is (as we shall see) a similar story narrated by Josephus of Alexander the Great prostrating himself before the high priest Jaddua, but it has long been relegated to the realm of fable as an outcome of Jewish self-esteem.105 It is probably meant as a concrete illustration of the glowing promises of Isaiah, that "kings and queens shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet";106 and "the sons of them that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet."107
VII. We further ask in astonishment whether Daniel could have accepted without indignant protest the offering of "an oblation and sweet odours." To say that they were only offered to God in the person of Daniel is the idle pretence of all idolatry. They are expressly said to be offered "to Daniel." A Herod could accept blasphemous adulations;108 but a Paul and a Barnabas deprecate such devotions with intense disapproval.109
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