The Expositor's Bible: The Book of DanielFarrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
Bible. Daniel -- Commentaries
[64] Some argue that in this passage συμφωνία means "a concert"
(comp. Luke xv. 25); but Polybius mentions it with "a horn"
(κεράτιον). Behrmann (p. ix) connects it with σίφων, and makes it
mean "a pipe."
[65] Pusey says all he can on the other side (pp. 23-28), and has
not changed the opinion of scholars (pp. 27-33). Fabre d'Envieu (i.
101) also desperately denies the existence of any Greek words. On the
other side see Derenbourg, _Les Mots grecs dans le Livre biblique de
Daniel_ (Mélanges Graux, 1884).
[66] _Orient. u. Exeg. Bibliothek_, 1772, p. 141. This view was
revived by Lagarde in the _Göttingen Gel. Anzeigen_, 1891.
[67] _Daniel neu Übersetz. u. Erklärt._, 1808; Köhler, _Lehrbuch_,
ii. 577. The first who suspected the unity of the Book because of the
two languages was Spinoza (_Tract-historicopol_, x. 130 ff.). Newton
(_Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse_,
i. 10) and Beausobre (_Remarques sur le Nouv. Test._, i. 70) shared
the doubt because of the use of the first person in the prophetic
(Dan. vii.-xii.) and the third in the historic section (Dan. i.-vi.).
Michaelis, Bertholdt, and Reuss considered that its origin was
fragmentary; and Lagarde (who dated the seventh chapter A.D. 69)
calls it "a bundle of flyleaves." Meinhold and Strack, like Eichhorn,
regard the historic section as older than the prophetic; and Cornill
thinks that the Book was put together in great haste. Similarly,
Graf (_Der Prophet Jeremia_) regards the Aramaic verse, Jer. x. 11,
as a marginal gloss. Lagarde argues, from the silence of Josephus
about many points, that he could not have had the present Book of
Daniel before him (_e.g._, Dan. vii. or ix.-xii.); but the argument
is unsafe. Josephus seems to have understood the Fourth Empire to be
the Roman, and did not venture to write of its destruction. For this
reason he does not explain "the stone" of Dan. ii. 45.
[68] By De Wette, Schrader, Hitzig, Ewald, Gesenius, Bleek,
Delitzsch, Von Lengerke, Stähelin, Kamphausen, Wellhausen, etc.
Reuss, however, says (_Heil. Schrift._, p. 575), "Man könnte auf die
Vorstellung kommen das Buch habe mehr als einen Verfasser"; and König
thinks that the original form of the book may have ended with chap.
vii. (_Einleit._, § 384).
[69] _Beiträge_, 1888. See too Kranichfeld, _Das Buch Daniel_, p. 4.
The view is refuted by Budde, _Theol. Lit. Zeitung_, 1888, No. 26.
The conjecture has often occurred to critics. Thus Sir Isaac Newton,
believing that Daniel wrote the last six chapters, thought that the
six first "are a collection of historical papers written by others"
(_Observations_, i. 10).
[70] _Einleit._, p. 6.
[71] Other critics who incline to one or other modification of this
view of the _two_ Daniels are Tholuck, _d. A.T. in N.T._, 1872; C. v.
Orelli, _Alttest. Weissag._, 1882; and Strack.
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