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1 Gleason L. Archer Jr., “Daniel,” The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, vol. 7, Frank E. Gaebelein,
ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1985), 85.

2 For an outline study of Daniel’s view of world history by the author, see John F. Walvoord,
The Nations in Prophecy (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1967), 53–60.

3 Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, M. G. Easton, trans. (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955), 245.

4 Ibid.
5 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 10.11.7.

6 H. H. Rowley, Darius the Mede and the Four World Empires in the Book of Daniel (Cardiff:

University of Wales, 1959), 179.
7 In this attempt he uses a total of sixty-seven pages, whereas he devotes only twenty-one pages

to proving that Daniel taught that the second and third kingdoms are the Median and Persian
kingdoms (Rowley, Darius the Mede, 70–137).
8 James A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, The

International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927), 88.
9 Ibid., 282.

10 Ibid., 88–89.

11 Rowley, Darius the Mede, 179.

12 Leon Wood, A Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1973), 179.

13 D. J. Wiseman, “Belshazzar,” in The New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas, ed. (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1965), 139.

14 R. D. Culver, Daniel and the Latter Days (Chicago: Moody, n.d.), 95–104.
15 Carl August Auberlen, The Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations of St. John (Edinburgh: T. &

T. Clark, 1857).

16 Montgomery, Daniel, 282.
17 So Archer writes, “The sea (v. 2) is symbolic of polluted, turbulent humanity (cf. Isa. 57:20)

as they try to exploit and govern in their own wisdom and strength” (Archer, “Daniel,” 85).
18 Arthur Jeffery, The Book of Daniel, The interpreter’s Bible, George A. Buttrick, ed. (New York:

Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1951), 452.
19 Keil, Daniel, 222. G. H. Lang argues at length that “the great sea” is the Mediterranean, citing

a large number of Scripture references (Num. 34:6–7; Josh. 1:4; 9:1; 15:11–12; 15:47; 23:4;