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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
Charles Beecher, in Redeemer and

Redeemed, pp. 67, 68, says: “What goes to

confirm this is that the most ancient

paraphrases and translations treat Azazel as a

proper name. The Chaldee paraphrase and the

targums of Onkelos and Jonathan would

certainly have translated it if it was not a

proper name, but they do not. The Septuagint,

or oldest Greek version, renders it by

ἀποπομπαῖος (apopompaios), a word applied

by the Greeks to a malign deity sometimes

appeased by sacrifices. Another confirmation

is found in the book of Enoch, where the name

Azalzel, evidently a corruption of Azazel, is

given to one of the fallen angels, thus plainly

showing what was the prevalent

understanding of the Jews at that day.