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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
θρόνος ἔκειτο and ה ָרָי No. 2.” The Analytical

Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, by Davidson,

also gives to this word the definition “to set, to

place,” and refers to Daniel 7:9 as an example

of its use in this sense. Why this word was

used to express the idea here intended may

perhaps be learned from the following note

found in the Cottage Bible: “Ver. 9. The

thrones were cast down. Wintle, ‘Were

placed.’ So Boothroyd. But both come to the

same meaning. The Asiatics have neither

chairs nor stools, but, to receive persons of

rank, ‘cast down,’ or ‘place,’ cushions round

the room for seats, which seems to be here

alluded to. See Matthew 19:28; Revelation

20:4.” Dr. Clarke says that the word “might be

translated erected; so the Vulgate, positi sunt

[were placed], and so all the versions.” The

Septuagint has ἐτέθησαν (etethesan), which is