'abomination' (P), 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.; conquest's
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., 99f., 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, xcvii f. apadâna, 111, 126, 199 'Apedno,' 197
apocalyptic literature, lxxvii-lxxxv, 163 Apollonius, xliv, 124, 187
Cambyses, xxxii, liii f.
Canon of the O. T., xlvii f.
'captain of the guard' ( ), 22 f. Carchemish, battle of (B. C. 605), xlix, 2 chain of gold, 64
'Chaldaeans,' in ethnic sense, 12, 13 n., in sense of astrologers, xlix f., 6, 12- 14, 15
'chief princes' (=archangels), 158 Chisian MS. (of LXX. of Dan.), c, ci Chittiin (Kitians), 186
'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
'consort' (2), 62 Cyaxares, 28
'Cylinder-inscription' of Cyrus, xxxi,
Cyrus, xxviii-xxxii 12, 79, 138, 152
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, xvif., 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, xcvii f., 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)' (¡), 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
'enchanters' (D'DWN), 12, 15, 18
'end, time of the,' 121, 122, 193, 198,
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., Iviii 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*7*DM), xlv, 189
heart (=intellect), 51, 81
'heaven' (expression of reverence for 'God'), 53 f.
heavenly tables, the, 162
Hebrew style of Dan., Ix-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,
horn, the little, 84, 91, 92, 94f., 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
Scipio, Luc. Cornelius (Dan. xi. 18), 190 'scripture of truth,' the, 162
'seal,' to, fig. uses of, 136, 202, 205 seals, use of in antiquity, 76 Seleucidae, the, 30, 31, 165 Seleucus I. (Nicator), xxxv, 165, 166 II. (Callinicus), 167 f.
III. (Ceraunos), 168, 169 f.
IV. (Philopator), xxxviii, 101 f., 176 f.
Septuagint version of Dan., xviii, lxxvi, xcviii-cii
seventy weeks, prophecy of the, 126 f., 135 ff., 143-150 Shadrach, 7
'sheath' (said of the body), 89 Shinar, 3
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