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THE PREACHER'S COMMENTARY

ON THE

BOOK OF DANIEL.

THE

Preacher's Complete Homiletical

COMMENTARY

ON THE

OLD TESTAMENT

(ON AN ORIGINAL PLAN).

With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Endices, &c., &e

BY

VARIOUS AUTHORS.

New York

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

LONDON AND TORONTO

1892

A

HOMILETICAL COMMENTARY

ON THE BOOK OF

DANIEL.

WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND INDEXES.

BY

T. ROBINSON, D.D.

AUTHOR OF A SUGGESTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS,
HOMILETICAL COMMENTARIES ON JOB AND THE SONG OF SOLOMON ; "THE EVANGELISTS
AND THE MISHNA," ETC.

New York

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

LONDON & TORONTO

1892

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PREFACE.

THE writer having been asked by the projector of the Preacher's Commentary on the Old Testament to undertake the Book of Daniel in addition to those of Job and the Song of Solomon, he felt it his duty to comply with the proposal. In prayerful dependence on divine aid, he has done his best upon this portion of Holy Scripture, which, however interesting, is also confessedly difficult. He trusts his labour has not been entirely in vain in endeavouring to provide a companion, however imperfect, to that remarkable book, which may aid those engaged in teaching divine truth, as well as Christian readers in general. He has adopted much the same plan of treatment as he had done with the two books already mentioned. He has, however, divided the present Commentary into Sections, and has placed the notes at the end of each, instead of at the end of the entire book. The aids of which he has especially availed himself, as the reader will observe, are, besides several minor treatises-Hengstenberg on the Genuineness and Authenticity of Daniel, Keil's Commentary on Daniel, Auberlen on Daniel and the Revelation, Calvin's Commentary on Daniel, Bishop Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies, Birks on the Two Earlier and Two Later Visions of Daniel, Dr. Pusey's Lectures, Willet's Hexaplar Commentary on the same book, and Pole's Synopsis. The views of others are for the most part given in the Notes at the end of each section, while the writer's own are found in the Homiletical portion of the Commentary. Deeply conscious of its many defects, he commits his work to the blessing of Him who has said, in

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