[72] Hengstenberg also points to verbal resemblances between ii. 44 and vii. 14; iv. 5 and vii. 1; ii. 31 and vii. 2; ii. 38 and vii. 17, etc. (_Genuineness of Daniel_, E. Tr., pp. 186 ff.). [73] _A Short Commentary_, p. 8. [74] Acts xvii. 26, 27. [75] See Hitzig, p. xii; Auberlen, p. 41. [76] Reuss says too severely, "Die Schilderungen aller dieser Vorgänge machen keinen gewinnenden Eindruck.... Der Stil ist unbeholfen, die Figuren grotesk, die Farben grell." He admits, however, the suitableness of the Book for the Maccabean epoch, and the deep impression it made (_Heil. Schrift. A. T._, p. 571). [77] See iii. 2, 3, 5, 7; viii. 1, 10, 19; xi. 15, 22, 31, etc. [78] Exod. xv. 20; Judg. iv. 4. [79] 1 Sam. x. 5; 1 Chron. xxv. 1, 2, 3. [80] 2 Kings iii. 15. [81] Jer. xxix. 26; 1 Sam. xviii. 10, xix. 21-24. [82] 2 Kings ix. 11. See Expositor's Bible, _Second Book of Kings_, p. 113. [83] On this subject see Ewald, _Proph. d. A. Bundes_, i. 6; Novalis, _Schriften_, ii. 472; Herder, _Geist der Ebr. Poesie_, ii. 61; Knobel, _Prophetismus_, i. 103. Even the Latin poets were called _prophetæ_, "bards" (Varro, _De Ling. Lat._, vi. 3). Epimenides is called "a prophet" in Tit. i. 12. See Plato, _Tim._, 72, A.; _Phædr._, 262, D.; Pind., _Fr._, 118; and comp. Eph. iii. 5, iv. 11. [84] Dan. ix. 6, 10. So conscious was the Maccabean age of the absence of prophets, that, just as after the Captivity a question is postponed "till there should arise a priest with the Urim and Thummin," so Judas postponed the decision about the stones of the desecrated altar "until there should come a prophet to show what should be done with them" (1 Macc. iv. 45, 46, ix. 27, xiv. 41). Comp. Song of the Three Children, 15; Psalm lxxiv. 9; _Sota_, f. 48, 2. See _infra_, Introd., chap. viii. [85] Dan. ix. 2, _hassepharîm_, τὰ βίβλια. [86] Ewald, _Proph. d. A. B._, p. 10. Judas Maccabæus is also said to have "restored" (ἐπισυνήγαγε) the lost (διαπεπτωκότα) sacred writings (2 Macc. ii. 14). [87] Smith's _Dict. of the Bible_, i. 501. The daily lesson from the Prophets was called the _Haphtarah_ (Hamburger, _Real-Encycl._, ii. 334). [88] On this subject see Kuenen, _The Prophets_, iii. 95 ff.; Davison, _On Prophecy_, pp. 34-67; Herder, _Hebr. Poesie_, ii. 64; De Wette, _Christl. Sittenlehre_, ii. 1. [89] Joël, _Notizen_, p. 7. CHAPTER III _PECULIARITIES OF THE HISTORIC SECTION_