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Page viii
... empire . For this service he was again restored to honor , and the purpose was formed to raise him to an exalted rank at court - a purpose which was , however , frustrated by the fact that Babylon was that very night taken , and that ...
... empire . For this service he was again restored to honor , and the purpose was formed to raise him to an exalted rank at court - a purpose which was , however , frustrated by the fact that Babylon was that very night taken , and that ...
Page ix
... empire . Epiphanius says that he died in Babylon , and this has been the commonly received opinion of historians . This opinion , however , has not been universal . Some sup- pose that he died at Shusan or Susa . Josephus ( Ant . b . x ...
... empire . Epiphanius says that he died in Babylon , and this has been the commonly received opinion of historians . This opinion , however , has not been universal . Some sup- pose that he died at Shusan or Susa . Josephus ( Ant . b . x ...
Page lii
... empire of the Persians , he supposed that himself was the person intended . And as he was then glad , he dismissed the multitude for the present ; but the next day he called them to him , and bade them ask what favors they pleased of ...
... empire of the Persians , he supposed that himself was the person intended . And as he was then glad , he dismissed the multitude for the present ; but the next day he called them to him , and bade them ask what favors they pleased of ...
Page lvii
... empire by the Medo - Persians . Abydenus , in his singular account of Nebuchadnezzar's last hours ( given on p . 122 above ) , represents this king as rapt into a kind of prophetic ecstasy , and in this state as declaring his fearful ...
... empire by the Medo - Persians . Abydenus , in his singular account of Nebuchadnezzar's last hours ( given on p . 122 above ) , represents this king as rapt into a kind of prophetic ecstasy , and in this state as declaring his fearful ...
Page lx
... empire was actually as large at the time of their appointment , as it was in the time of Xerxes , as exhibited in Esth . i . 1 ? The Septuagint translator of Daniel , who belonged to the Maccabaean age , did not venture to write 120 ...
... empire was actually as large at the time of their appointment , as it was in the time of Xerxes , as exhibited in Esth . i . 1 ? The Septuagint translator of Daniel , who belonged to the Maccabaean age , did not venture to write 120 ...
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Abydenus according Alexander ancient angel Antiochus Antiochus Epiphanes appear applied Astyages Babylon beast Belshazzar Berosus Bertholdt Book of Daniel captivity Chaldeans Chaldee chapter character command Comp conquests Ctesias Cyaxares II Cyrus Darius death decree denote designed desolation divine dominion dream earth Egypt empire Epiphanes evidence fact favour Gesenius gods Greek heathen heaven Hebrew Hengstenberg Herodotus holy honour horn improbable interpretation Jerusalem Jews Josephus king kingdom known land language Lengerke Lord Maccabees Marg meaning Medes ment Messiah mind monarch nations nature Nebuchadnezzar Notes on ch objection occur passage period Persian prayer Prideaux prince probable proper properly prophecy prophet Ptolemy reason referred regard reign religion remarkable represented respect righteousness Roman says Scriptures seems Septuagint supposed supposition symbol Syriac temple thee Themistocles Theodotion things thou throne tion true unto verse vision whole word rendered worship writing Xerxes
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Page xlix - When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand), then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.
Page 375 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 358 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page xxxiv - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 157 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold ; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Page 312 - Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 21Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Page 214 - Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field...
Page 390 - Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire : come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Page 248 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 149 - And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.