IMAGE. This could not have been an image of. human being. The height and breadth are out of all proportion for this; the former being one to ten instead of one to six.. figure drawn on this scale, will at once be seen to be impossible. Having determined that it is. human figure, tradition then assum... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KING SENT. This great Durbar would hardly have taken place till after the campaign referred to in note on "came" (Daniel 1:1). It was therefore probably held about 475 B. C, in Daniel's thirty-eighth year, twenty years after Nebuchadnezzar's dream of himself, the "head of gold" (Daniel 2). TO G... [ Continue Reading ]
HERALD. Chaldee. _karo_. _a_ '. Not from the Greek _kerux,_ but an old Persian word _khresic',_. crier, from which comes the Chaldee verb _k_ evar, to make. proclamation, as in Daniel 5:29. PEOPLE. peoples, or nations. NATIONS. races, or tribes. LANGUAGES. tongues. Figure of speech _Catabasis._ A... [ Continue Reading ]
CORNET, &C. These names are supposed to be Greek, or from the Greek; but Athenaeus,. Greek grammarian (about A.D. 200-300), says the _sambuke_ ("sack-but") was. Syriac invention. Strabo, in his geography (54 B.C. A.D. 24), ascribes Greek music to Asia, and says: "the Athenians always showed their ad... [ Continue Reading ]
CERTAIN. men: probably our grandees. Plural of Chaldee. _g_ ebar. App-14. CHALDEANS. See note on Daniel 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Chaldee. _anash_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHADRACH, &C. See note on Daniel 1:7. MEN. strong men, or grandees. Plural of Chaldee. _gebar_. App-14. GODS. Chaldee. _elah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUE. of set purpose.... [ Continue Reading ]
WELL. Note the Figure of speech _Aposiopesis_ (App-6). Or, supply [well and good]. GOD. Chaldee. _elah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANSWERED AND SAID. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41. ARE NOT CAREFUL. do not account it needful.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS ABLE TO DELIVER US. The Massoretic pointing requires this punctuation: "to deliver us; from the burning fiery furnace He will deliver us".... [ Continue Reading ]
FULL OF. filled with, form. appearance. visage. countenance.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "thy".... [ Continue Reading ]
MOST MIGHTY MEN. Chaldee. mighty [ones] of strength. TO BIND. Chaldee. _kephath._ Occurs only here and verses: Daniel 3:21; Daniel 3:23; Daniel 3:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
COATS. cloaks, or mantles. HOSEN. tunics. HATS. turbans, mantles, or cloaks.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDMENTS WORD. THOSE MEN. those very men.... [ Continue Reading ]
COUNSELLORS: or, ministers [standing near] to him; either to his throne or near at the time. Chaldee. _haddabrin._ Not the same word as in verses: Daniel 3:2; Daniel 3:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF GOD. a son of God (no Art.): i.e.. superhuman being, or an angel. Compare Daniel 3:28, and see App-23. Nebuchadnezzar could know nothing of N.T. revelation.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUTH. door.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAW. kept gazing upon. CHANGED: or, discolored.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAK, &C. = charge any fault or error. AMISS: or, rash. Compare 2 Samuel 6:7, as Nebuchadnezzar himself had done. CUT IN PIECES, &C See note on Daniel 2:5. DELIVER. rescue.... [ Continue Reading ]