[279] ii. 5: "The dream is gone from me," as in ver. 8 (Theodotion, ἀπέστη). But the meaning may be the decree (or word) is "sure": for, according to Nöldeke, _azda_ is a Persian word for "_certain_." Comp. Esther vii. 7; Isa. xlv. 23. [280] _Berachôth_, f. 10, 2. This book supplies a charm to be spoken by one who has forgotten his dream (f. 55, 2). [281] Dan. ii. 5, iii. 29. Theodot., εἰς ἀπωλείαν ἔσεσθε. Lit. "ye shall be made into limbs." The LXX. render it by διαμελίζομαι, _membratim concidor_, _in frusta fio_. Comp. Matt. xxiv. 51; Smith's _Assur-bani-pal_, p. 137. The word _haddam_, "a limb," seems to be of Persian origin--in modern Persian _andam_. Hence the verb _hadîm_ in the Targum of 1 Kings xviii. 33. Comp. 2 Macc. i. 16, μέλη ποιεῖν. [282] Comp. Ezra vi. 11; 2 Kings x. 27; _Records of the Past_, i. 27, 43. [283] In iii. 96, καὶ ἡ οἰκία αὐτοῦ δημευθήσεται. Comp. 2 Macc. iii. 13: "But Heliodorus, because of the king's commandment, said, That in anywise it must be brought into the king's treasury." [284] LXX. Theodot., καιρὸν ἐξαγοράζετε (not in a _good_ sense, as in Eph. v. 16; Col. iv. 5). [285] Theodot., συνέθεσθε. Cf. John ix. 22. [286] Theodot., ἔως οὗ ὁ καιρὸς παρέλθῃ. [287] Esther iii. 7. [288] The word _Aramîth_ may be (as Lenormant thinks) a gloss, as in Ezra iv. 7. [289] A curious parallel is adduced by Behrmann (_Daniel_, p. 7). Rabia-ibn-nazr, King of Yemen, has a dream which he cannot recall, and acts precisely as Nebuchadrezzar does (Wüstenfeld, p. 9). [290] See Lenormant, _La Magie_, pp. 181-183. [291] LXX., ii. 11: εἰ μή τις ἄγγελος. [292] Lit. "chief of the slaughter-men" or "executioners." LXX., ἀρχιμάγειρος. The title is perhaps taken from the story, which in this chapter is so prominently in the writer's mind, where the same title is given to Potiphar (Gen. xxxvii. 36). Comp. 2 Kings xxv. 8; Jer. xxxix. 9. The name Arioch has been derived from _Erî-aku_, "servant of the moon-god" (_supra_, p. 49), but is found in Gen. xiv. 1 as the name of "the King of Ellasar." It is also found in Judith i. 6, "Arioch, King of the Elymæans." An Erim-akû, King of Larsa, is found in cuneiform. [293] If Daniel went (as the text says) _in person_, he must have been already a very high official. (Comp. Esther v. 1; Herod., i. 99.) If so, it would have been strange that he should not have been consulted among the magians. All these details are regarded as insignificant, being extraneous to the general purport of the story (Ewald, _Hist._, iii. 194). [294] Matt. xviii. 19. The LXX. interpolate a ritual gloss: καὶ παρήγγειλε νηστείαν καὶ δέησιν καὶ τιμωρίαν ζητῆσαι παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου. [295] The title is found in Gen. xxiv. 7, but only became common after the Exile (Ezra i. 2, vi. 9, 10; Neh. i. 5, ii. 4). [296] Comp. Dan. vii. 12; Jer. xxvii. 7; Acts i. 7, χρόνοι ἢ καιροί; 1 Thess. v. 1; Acts xvii. 26, ὁρίσας προτεταγμένους καιρούς.