“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming Of the great and terrible day of the Lord.” (_Ibid. _ 23.) Daniel’s (Belteshazzar) prophecies from about five hundred and thirty-four, to five hundred and seven years before the civil era relate not only to the affairs of Judah and Israel, but also to the various monarchies and kingdoms that are to arise successively in the world. In the following verses he foretells the national future of his own people:―― “And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; nor shall the kingdom be left to another people; ..., but it shall stand for ever.” (Daniel ii. 44.) “And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.” (_Ibid._ vii. 27.) “... and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was seen since there was a nation even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered,...” (_Ibid._ xii. 1.) These predictions undoubtedly signify that the Children of Israel shall _enjoy a kingdom and dominion under the whole heaven_, i.e. upon the earth, which shall _never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people_.¹ ¹ The most notable _Talmudic_ and _Rabbinical_ passages referring to the future of the Jewish nation are: _Talm. Bab. Berachoth_ 28b, 34b; _Shabb._ 118a; _Menahoth_ 45a; _Baba Mezia_ 3a; _Eduyoth_ VIII. 7; _Kiddushin_ 71a; Gen. _Rabba_ LXXXV. 2; _Hagigah_ 14a; _Sanhedrin_ 38b; 98a, 99a, 110b, 111a; _Erubin_ 43b; Cant. _Rabba_ VII. 10; _Sifri_ on Deut. 1: 1; _Baba Bathra_ 76a. For the views of the _Gaon_ Saadia _ben_ Joseph (892‒942) see Guttman, _Religionsphilosophie des Saadia_, Göttingen, 1882, _p._ 236; for Hai _ben_ Sherira _Gaon_ (939‒1038) see _Taam Zekenim_, Frankfort on the Main, 1854, _pp._ 58‒61; for Abraham _ben_ Chiya Albargeloni _Ha’nasi_ (called Abraham Judæus and Savasorda) (1065‒1136) see _Hegion Ha’nefesh_, Leipzig, 1860, _p._ 40 ff.; for Judah Halevi, see his Poems and Kuzari in Cassel’s edition, Leipzig, 1869, ii. 36‒44, _pp._ 143‒7, p. iv. 23; pt. i. 115; for Maimonides, see _Hilchoth Melachim_ in his _Yad Ha’chazakah_, Chs. XI. XII. and _Hilchoth Teshubah_, Ch. IX. 2; for Nachmanides, see his Comment. to Gen. 2: 3, and to Exodus 17: 9; for ♦Abrabanel, his books _Yeshuat Meshicho_, _Mashmia Yeshuah_, _Maeyenai Ha’yeshua_, and Klausner: Die Messianischen Vorstellungen ... Berlin, 1904, and also Greenstone: _The Messiah Idea in Jewish History_, Philadelphia, 1906. ♦ “Abarbanel” replaced with “Abrabanel” for consistency II.