Frederic Farrar - The Expositor's Bible - The Book of Daniel

Hävernick is another able and sincere supporter; but Droysen truly says ( Gesch. d. Hellenismus , ii. 211), "Die Hävernickschen Auffassung kann kein vernunftiger Mensch bestimmen."

See Grimm, Comment., zum I. Buch der Makk., Einleit. , xvii.; Mövers in Bonner Zeitschr. , Heft 13, pp. 31 ff.; Stähelin, Einleit. , p. 356.

Iren., Adv. Hæres. , iv. 25; Clem., Strom. i. 21, § 146; Tert., De Cult. Fæm. , i. 3; Jerome, Adv. Helv. , 7; Ps. August., De Mirab. , ii. 32, etc.

Baba Bathra , f. 13 b , 14 b .

See Oehler, s. v. "Kanon" (Herzog, Encycl. ).

Rau, De Synag. Magna. , ii. 66.

On Daniel , p. 195.

"Even after the Captivity," says Bishop Westcott, "the history of the Canon, like all Jewish history up to the date of the Maccabees, is wrapped in great obscurity. Faint traditions alone remain to interpret results which are found realised when the darkness is first cleared away" ( s. v. "Canon," Smith's Dict. of Bible ).

See König, Einleit. , § 80, 2.

"In propheta Daniele Septuaginta interpretes multum ab Hebraica veritate discordant" (Jerome, ed. Vallarsi, v. 646). In the LXX. are first found the three apocryphal additions. For this reason the version of Theodotion was substituted for the LXX., which latter was only rediscovered in 1772 in a manuscript in the library of Cardinal Chigi.

On the Authenticity of Daniel , pp. 159, 290 (E. Tr.).

Psalms of Sol. xvii. 36, xviii. 8, etc. See Fabric., Cod. Pseudep. , i. 917-972; Ewald, Gesch. d. Volkes Isr. , iv. 244.

Even Auberlen says ( Dan. , p. 3, E. Tr.), "If prophecy is anywhere a history of the future, it is here."