Recent Expositions of Daniel. By Prof. W. H. Green, D. D. [pp. 397-424]

Recent Expositions of Daniel.
chart of prophecy to the region of history. The wide divergences which have prevailed and still exist among interpreters, may be illustrated by the volumes before us. Z6ckler
finds the fulfilnlment of almost all that the book contains, in
or prior to the MIaccabean era. Judge Taylor refers all the
predictions of the last six chapters (except pierhaps the first
seven verses of the seventh chapter, which are necessarily introductory) to the times of the Christian dispensation. While,
according to Keil, the development and progress of that dispensation form no part of its disclosures, which spring from
events prior to the advent of Christ to the times of the end and
the final consummation.
As a specimen of the method of Z6ckler and Keil, we propose to present in this article their respective interpretations
of the prophecy of the seventy weeks, Daniel ix. 24-27. This
shall be followed by a statement of the prophetic scheme propounded by Judge Taylor on the basis of this book.
The prophecy of the seventy weeks has, by the great body
of believing interpreters from the earliest times, been regarded
as a prediction of the advent and death of Christ, and the
consequent destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. The
naturalistic interpreters of modern times, who deny the genuineness of the entire book, imputing it to an unknown author
in or near the MaccabeanT period, by whom the history of the
past or present was set forth in the guise of a prophecy from
. the mouth of Daniel, mostly refer it to the profanation of the
temple by Antiochus Epiphanes and his subsequent overthrow.
Zockler has attempted a compromise between these two views.
He believes this to be a genuine prophecy communicated to
Daniel by the angel Gabriel, and containing internal evidence
that it could not have been produced during or after the per secutions of Antiochus Epiphanes; which, however, together
with the fate of that ungodly monarch, he supposes to consti tute its primary or immediate theme, while it has a secondary
or remoter reference to the coming of Christ and the events
which succeeded it.
According to his conception of the matter, Daniel was in
doubt as to the true interpretation of Jeremiah's prediction
(Jeremiah xxv. 11, xxix. 10), that the captivity should last for
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