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Chapter 17.

Daniel.  

 

The Structure of Daniel

        A. The PresentGhs. 1-6.

1Gh. 1. God the Protector of the captives.

2Gh. 2. God the Revealer of the future.

3Gh. 3. God the Lord of fire.

4Gh. 4. God the Humbler of the proud.

5Gh. 5. God the Avenger of His honour.

6Ch. 6. God the Tamer of beasts.

        B. The FutureChs. 7-12.

1Ch. 7. The End of World History.

2Ch. 8. The Enemy of the Saints.

3Ch. 9. The Messiah the Prince.

4Chs. 10-12. The Fortunes of Israel.

 

We deal with Daniel last because both the Hebrew canon of Scripture and the nature of its contents put it outside the Prophets in the strict sense of the word.

        Daniel, with its stress on the sovereignty of God, which not only compels rebellious men to do His will, but that even at the very moment of His appointing, has always been the most obnoxious of Old Testament books to the humanist, and a chief centre of his attacks. To complicate matters, the book seems to invite attack and to make the task of the critic the easier. For over half a century now the overwhelming majority of Old Testament scholars have taken the non-historical nature of Daniel for granted.

        The results have been disastrous, for both sides have come to the study of the difficulties and the exegesis of the book with such bias that they are seldom able to do it justice.

 




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