Abed-nego, 7 f.

'abomination' (PP), 142, 150
'abomination of desolation,' xliv, lxxiii,
150, 151, 188

'abomination that maketh desolate,' 188,
205, cf. 118, 142, 151
Adonis, 194 f.

Ahasuerus, lii, liv, 127

Alexander the Great, xxxiii f.; conquests

of, 113 f., 164; division of empire after
death of, xxxiv f., 29, 115, 122, 164
Amêl-Marduk (Evil-Merodach), xxvii, li
Amesha-Spentas, xciv f.
'ancient of days,' 85

angels, assembly of, surrounding God,
51, 86; interpreting visions, lxxviii, 89;
winged, 134; called 'wakeful ones'
(y), 49f.; names and ranks of,
157 f.; patron-angels, 156 f.; doctrine
of in Dan., lxiv, xciii-xcvi

'Annalistic tablet' of Cyrus, xxviii-xxxi,
65 n.

anoint, to (i), as a religious rite,

137; to anoint (T1D) the person, 153
'anointed one,' an, 138, 139 f.

Anshan (or Anzan), the home of Cyrus,

177 f., 207 f.; character of, xxxviii f.,
123 f., 182 f.; power of dissimulation,
123, 178, 184, 196; munificence and
prodigality, xxxix, 183; presumptuous-
ness and impiety, 61, 84, 87, 92, 116,
124, 193-5; assumption of divine
honours by, 193; expeditions against
Egypt, xxxix f., 178-181, 184-6;
attack on Jerusalem in B.C. 170, xliii,
84, 185; endeavour to Hellenize the
Jews and suppress their religion, xl—
xlvi, lxxxvi, 91, 92 f., 99 f., 110, 115—
120, 121 f., 123f., 140-2, 186-194; last
years of, 196 f.; death, 27 (cf. 30), 124,
197, 200; coins of, 193; central figure
in book of Dan., lxvf., cf. civ, 99 f.,
150; type of Antichrist, xcviif.
apadâna, 111, 126, 199
'Apedno,' 197

apocalyptic literature, lxxvii-lxxxv, 163
Apollonius, xliv, 124, 187

aposiopesis, 41

Aramaic, 19; Aramaic of Dan., lix-lx,
civ

archaisms in the Authorized Version-
astonied, 43
base, 51 f.

brass, 27

commune, II

cunning, 5

demand, 25, 51

excellent, 27, 32-34, 57, 65

favour (= face), 5

meat, 49

Grecia, 122, 161, 163

of

Jewry, 66

mount (=mound), 173

14

210

Cambyses, xxxii, liii f.

Canon of the O. T., xlvii f.

'captain of the guard' (M),
22 f.

Carchemish, battle of (B.C. 605), xlix, 2
chain of gold, 64

'Chaldaeans,' in ethnic sense, 12, 13n.,
in sense of astrologers, xlix f., 6, 12—
14, 15

'chief princes' (=archangels), 158
Chisian MS. (of LXX. of Dan.), c,
Chittim (Kitians), 186

ci

'choler, to be moved with,' 114
chronology, incorrect, 146, 147
Cleopatra (daughter of Antiochus the
Great, sister to Antiochus Epiphanes,
married to Ptolemy Epiphanes, Dan.
xi. 17), xxxvii f., 101, 174
'coats,' 42 f.

Coele-Syria and Palestine, a bone of
contention between Syria and Egypt,
xxxiv—xxxviii, 166

'come up upon the heart,' to, 26
Commentaries on Daniel, cii f., civ
'compassion,' 'to give to compassion
before...,' 130

Daniel, the name, xviiin., 7; whether
alluded to by Ezekiel, xvii f.; apocry-
phal stories of, in Susanna, xviii f.
(allusion to in Shakespeare, xix); in
Bel and the Dragon, xx f.; in later
Jewish writings, xxi; so-called Tomb
of, at Susa, xxi

Daniel, the book of:-contents of, ix-
xvi; aim of, xvi f., lxix, lxxiii; written
partly in Heb., partly in Aram., xxii f.,
19; allusions to, in Sibylline Oracles,
lxxiii; in 1 Macc., lxxiii f.; in N. T.,
lxxiv, 109, 151; Greek versions of,
xviii, xcviii ff.; history embraced in,
xxiii-xlvii; authorship and date of,
xlvii-lxxvi, civ f.; literary character
of, lxxvi-lxxxv; whether of composite
authorship, cv; characteristic doc-
trines of, lxiii f., lxxxv ff.; the future
as pictured in, lxxxvi; expressions in
N. T. borrowed from, or suggested by,
lxxxv, xcviif., 151, 200

Daphne (suburb of Antioch), 194, 196, 207
Darius Hystaspis, liv, 70, 71, 72
Darius the Mede, lii-liv, 70, 71, 127, 162
'determiners (of fates)' (1), 15, 25
Deuteronomy, reminiscences of, 127 ff.
'devote' (or 'ban'), to (D), 199
Diadochi (successors of Alexander the
Great), rule of the, 123, 152, 162 ff.
didactic aim of Dan. i-vi, xvi—xvii,
lxix, 1, 17, 35, 46, 61, 71

'do,' to (used absolutely), 117 f., 133,
189

dreams, 17 f., 49

dulcimer, 39

Dura, 36

eagle (, properly 'griffon-vulture'),

81

'earth, the whole (or all the),' expression
used hyperbolically, 29, 46, 92
Ecclesiasticus, xlviii, lxii

Elam, 110, III

'enchanters' (D'DWN), 12, 15, 18

'end, time of the,' 121, 122, 193, 198,

202, 205

Enoch, the book of, lxxix-lxxxi, lxxxv;

cited in illustration of parts of Dan.,
44, 49 f., 85, 86, 87, 89, 105-107, 125,
158, 162, 201, 202
eschatology of Dan., 202-204, lxxxvi, cf.
lxxxvii f., xcii f.

Esdras (Ezra), second (fourth) book of,
lxxxii f., 95, 99 n., 107 f.
Ethiopians (Kushites), 199
Eumenes, king of Pergamum, 101, 177,
207 f.
eunuchs, 4

everlasting life, 201

Evil-Merodach, see Amêl-Marduk
Ezekiel, reminiscences of, lxii f., 115,
120, 121, 125, 154, 155, 159, 160

'family above,' the, 51

family of criminal punished with him, 78
fast predisposing to a vision, lxxxv, 153
fire, symbolizing the Deity, 85
foods, unclean, 8

four empires of Daniel, 94-102

Gabriel, 120

'gate' of the king, 32
'God of gods,' 31

God of heaven,' 23

'governor' (peḥāh), xxix, xxxiii, 36
Greek words in Dan., lviii f., 38, 39
Gubaru (Gobryas), xxix, xxx, xxxi, liv,
60 f.

hand, fig. of power, 204

'hand, to lift up the' (in oath), 203 f.

'hard (or dark) sentences' (ITIN), 65

'hard' (of the spirit), 67

Hasidaeans (D'TDM), xlv, 189

heart (=intellect), 51, 81

'heaven' (expression of reverence for
'God'), 53 f.

heavenly tables, the, 162

Hebrew style of Dan., lx-lxiii

Heliodorus, 101 f., 176, 177, 207

Hellenizing party in Judah, xl ff., 141,
186 f., 188 f., 190

Hiddekel, the, 153

'holy gods,' the, 48

holy one (angel), 50, 118

holy ones (ideal designation of Israelites),

90, 124

horn, the great (Alexander), 113, 114,

122

horn, the little, 84, 91, 92, 94 f., 98 f.,
100; 115

horns, symbolical sense of, 84

horns, the ten (in Dan. vii.), 84, 91, 92,
94 f., 96, 98-102

host of heaven, 116, cf. 56
'hour,' 39, 52

'house of God' (late expression for

'house of Jehovah'), 3

'humble oneself,' to (said of one fasting),
156

hyperbole, 46, 92, 160

images erected by the Ass. kings, 35 f.
imaginative narratives, didactic value of,
lxx, lxxi; in vogue among the Jews,
lxxii

'India House Inscription' of Nebuchad-
nezzar, xxiv f., 46, 55

'intreat the favour of,' to, 130 f.

Jason, high-priest, xlii, xliii, 139, 187,
198

Jeremiah, prophecy of restoration after

70 years, 126, 127; reminiscences of in
Dan. ix., 128 ff.

Jerome, on the LXX. version of Dan.,
xcviiif.; his Comm. on Daniel, ciii;
referred to or quoted, ciii n., 143, 163-
197 (passim)

Judas Maccabaeus, xlv f., 120, 190
'judgements' (=ordinances), 128
Jupiter Capitolinus, 193, 194, 195

'king of kings,' title of Bab. and Persian
kings, 28

kingdom of God, the, lxiv, lxxxv-lxxxix,
16, 17, 30, 88, 92f., 200-202

'latter days,' the, 26, 159
leopard, 83

Libyans, 199

linen apparel, 154

living God, the, 77