THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Daniel

1:1c *: (The title of this book, 'Daniel'), Meaning, 'ùGod (El) is judge.'
1:3d eunuchs: Or 'chamberlains.'
1:4a learning: Or 'writing;' so ver. 17.
1:7b Belteshazzar: See ch. 4:8.
1:11c, 1:16c steward: Or 'Melzar.'
1:20d, 2:2d scribes: Or 'hieroglyphists,' as Gen. 41:8.
2:4a Aramaic: From here to the end of ch. 7 the same Aramaic dialect is employed as in Ezra 4:8 to 6:18, and Jer. 10:11.
2:5b command: Or 'word,' as vers. 8, 9; 'matter,' ver. 10; 'thing,' ver 11.
2:8c gain: Lit. 'redeem.'
2:11d extraordinary: Or 'hard.'
2:11e gods: Aramaic, Elah, here in the plural.
2:15f rigorous: Or 'urgent,' so ch. 3:22.
2:18g God: Elah, corresponding to the Hebrew Eloah; and so throughout to end of ch. 7.
2:20h ever: See 1Chron. 16:36; Neh. 9:5; Ps. 113:2; 115:18.
2:21a seasons: Or 'and appointed times,' as ch. 3:7, 'time.'
2:28b days: See Isa. 2:2.
2:32c brass: Or 'copper.'
2:38a hand: Or '... children of men dwell, he hath given into thy hand the beasts of the field and the fowl of the heavens.'
2:41b strength: Or 'durability.'
3:2c governors: Or 'pachas:' see Ezra 8:36.
3:2d counsellors: Or 'lawyers.'
3:4a nations: 'Tribes of people;' and so in vers. 7, 29; chs. 4:1; 5:19; 6:25; 7:14: see Gen. 25:16.
3:5b cornet: Or 'horn.' see Note, Lev. 25:10, and cf. Josh. 6:5.
3:5c sambuca: A stringed instrument.
3:8d Chaldeans: Strictly, 'men, Chaldeans;' so 'men, Jews,' ver. 12. 'Men' is from Geber, and appears in vers. 12, 13, 20-27; ch. 6:5, 11, 15, 24: see Job 3:3.
3:8e accused: Or 'spoke against:' lit. 'ate the pieces of.' See Note to Job 19:22.
3:12f not: Or 'pray not to;' so vers. 14, 17, 18, &c.
3:19a be: Lit. 'than it had been seen.'
3:21b hosen: The wide covering of thighs and legs, used especially by the Persians.
3:24c counsellors: Or 'viziers;' and so ver. 27; chs. 4:36; 6:7.
3:25d God: Or 'of the gods.' Elah, Aramaic, in the plural, corresponding to the Hebrew Elohim: see ch. 2:11.
4:3e generation: Ch. 4 begins here in the original.
4:9a for: Strictly, 'overpowereth.'
4:10b tree: Or 'a terebinth.'
4:17c decision: Or 'demand,' or 'matter.'
4:27a righteousness: The LXX reads 'alms:' see Note, Matt. 6:1.
4:30b kingdom: i.e. the royal residence.
4:37a judgment: Or 'justice.'
4:37b abase: See Job 40:11, 12.
5:5c candlestick: Or 'candelabrum.'
5:9d in: Lit. 'upon.'
5:10e queen: See 1Kings 15:13.
5:15a, 5:26a thing: Or 'words;' as 'command,' ch. 2:5; 'word,' ch. 2:8.
5:25b UPHARSIN: 'Numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided.'
6:4a fault: Or 'corruption,' as ch. 2:9.
6:7b decree: Strictly, 'interdict,' or 'prohibition;' and so throughout, to ver. 15.
6:17a be: Or 'that nothing might be.'
6:18b concubines: Or 'dancing-women;' others, 'instruments of music.'
6:24c accused: As ch. 3:8.
6:24d children: Lit. 'sons.'
7:9a set: Lit. 'cast,' placed as cushions, for sitting upon.
7:13b to: Strictly, 'he reached unto,' as ch. 4:22.
7:15c body: Lit. 'its sheath.'
7:25a out: Or 'destroy.'
7:25b seasons: Or 'appointed times,' as ver. 22; ch. 2:21.
7:27c His: See ver. 14.
7:28d matter: Or 'discourse,' as 'thing' ch. 5:15.
8:2e fortress: See Neh. 1:1.
8:9f earth: Or 'the beautiful.' It may be the land or the temple: see Ezek. 20:6, 15; Dan. 11:16, 41, 45; see Ps. 50:2.
8:11g he: There is here a change of gender in the original, making the little horn more personal.
8:12a trial: Or 'distress;' same word as 'service,' Num. 4:3; 'suffering,' Isa. 40:2.
8:12b it: i.e. the little horn.
8:12c practised: Or 'wrought,' 'did great things:' see 1Sam. 26:25.
8:13d one: The word denotes a certain unknown person.
8:13e long: Or 'Until when.'
8:14f vindicated: Lit. 'justified.'
8:15g, 8:17g, 8:26g vision: Heb. chazan, from chozeh, seer, as vers. 1, 2, 13, 26 (second time).
8:15h appearance, 8:16h, 8:26h vision: Heb. mareh. Strictly 'appearance,' but rendered 'vision' in vers. 16, 26 (first time), and 27; ch. 9:23.
8:18i stood: Or perhaps 'set me upright,' as ch. 10:11; Gen. 19:27; but cf. the preceding verse.
8:21k rough: Lit. 'hairy.'
8:21l Greece: Javan, Gen. 10:2.
8:23m riddles: Or 'dark sentences,' or 'hard sentences,' as ch. 5:12: see Num. 12:8; or 'wiles.'
8:24n practise: See ver. 12.
8:24o saints: Or 'holy ones;' Kodesh: see Ps. 89:7.
8:25p many: Or 'in their security shall destroy many:' see Jer. 12:10.
8:27a vision: See Note h ver. 16.
8:27b understood: Or 'explained.'
9:2c Jeremiah: See Jer. 25:11-12; 29:10.
9:8d Lord: Some read 'Jehovah.'
9:13e God: Lit. 'entreated not the face of Jehovah.'
9:13f understand: Or 'be skilful in.' Sachal: see Note k, Prov. 1:3.
9:18a name: See 1Kings 8:48.
9:18b present: Lit. 'cause to fall,' so ver. 20: see Jer. 36:7, &c.
9:23c vision: Mareh: see Note, ch. 8:16: so ch. 10:1, 7,8, 16.
9:24d close: Or 'to complete.'
9:24e of: Or 'to seal up.'
9:24f for: Or 'forgive,' see Ps. 78:38.
9:25g build: Or 'build up,' or 're-build.'
9:25h Messiah: i.e. one anointed.
9:25i Prince: See 2Sam. 7:8; Isa. 55:4
9:26k determined: Or 'the determined portion of desolations:' see the following verse, and Isa. 10:22, 23.
9:27l midst: Strictly, 'in the dividing of the week.'
9:27m protection: Lit. 'wing:' see Isa. 8:8. It might be rendered: 'and the abominations (idols) of the desolator shall be on the pinnacle' (i.e. of the temple).
9:27n abominations: idols.
9:27o desolate: Others, 'the desolator.'
10:1a trial: See ch. 8:12.
10:2b weeks: Lit. 'weeks of days.'
10:10c set: Lit. 'shook,' as Ps. 109:25; Isa. 7:2.
10:11d upright: Or 'stand where thou art.'
10:13e remained: Or 'prevailed.'
10:14f days: Or 'for those days.' 'Vision' in this verse is chazan: see ch. 8:15, Note g.
10:16g vision: As vers. 1, 7,8: see ch. 9:23.
10:20a Greece: Heb. Javan, as ch. 8:21.
10:21b these: Or 'in these things.'
11:5c south: Heb. Negeb; and so throughout: see Josh. 10:40.
11:8d princes: Lit. 'anointed ones:' see Ps. 83:11. Others, 'molten images,' as Isa. 41:29.
11:12e away: Or 'lifted up.'
11:12f prevail: Or 'be strengthened.'
11:14a violent: Lit. 'violent children,' as Jer. 7:11; Ezek. 7:22.
11:16b beauty: See ch. 8:9.
11:17c ones: Or 'upright conditions.' Some have 'to make an arrangement with him.'
11:17d, 11:28d practise: Or 'act:' see ch. 8:12.
11:22e forces: Lit. 'arms,' as ver. 15.
11:22f covenant: Or 'the allied prince.'
11:26g dissolved: Elsewhere 'overflow.'
11:30a, 11:39d practise: Or 'act.' as ch. 8:12.
11:31b forces: Lit. 'arms,' as ver. 15.
11:32c pervert: Or 'pollute.'
11:33d, 11:35d wise: The Maschilim, from Sachal, Prov. 1:3: so ch. 12:3. Maschil psalms, 32, 42, 44, 45, 52, 53, 54, 55, 74, 78, 88, 89, 142.
11:36e ùgods: Heb. El Elim.
11:39f increase: Or 'whom he shall acknowledge and increase.'
11:41g beauty: Or 'delight:' see ch. 8:9.
11:43h Ethiopians: Heb. 'Cushites.'
11:45i sea: Lit. 'seas,' i.e. the Mediterranean.
12:2a contempt: Or 'abhorrence:' as Isa. 66:24.
12:3b wise: Maschilim, as ch. 11:33.
12:4c fro: Or 'shall diligently investigate:' see Job 1:7; 2:2.
12:7d time: Period between a feast and the following anniversary (Lev. 23:2).
12:7e power: Lit. 'hand.'

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