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and a great world war that climaxes with the second advent of Christ.
This brings the times of the Gentiles to a close with the destruction of
the wicked rulers who led it. Further details are added in the next
chapter.

NOTES

1 Wilbur M. Smith, “Introduction to Jerome,” Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids: Baker,
1958), 5.

2 For an interesting study of Porphyry, see W. A. Criswell, Expository Sermons on the Book of
Daniel, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1968), 19ff.

3 F. W. Farrar, The Book of Daniel, The Expositor’s Bible, W. Robertson Nicoll, ed. (Cincinnati:
Jennings & Graham, n.d.), 299.

4 H. C. Leupold, Exposition of Daniel (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1949), 471–73.

5 Josh McDowell, Daniel in the Critics’ Den (San Bernardino, CA: Campus Crusade for Christ,
1979), 112–13.

6 Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, M. G. Easton, trans. (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955), 429.

7 Leon Wood, A Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1973), 278–79.

8 Norman W. Porteous, Daniel: A Commentary, The Old Testament Library (Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1965), 156.

9 James A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, The
International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927), 423.

10 For a more detailed explanation, see Frederic W. Bush, Ruth, Esther, Word Biblical
Commentary (Dallas: Word, 2002), 345.

11 Breneman notes that the events of Esther 1 took place “years before his famous expedition
against the Greek mainland” (Mervin Breneman, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, The New American
Commentary [Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2001], 304).

12 Montgomery, Daniel, 424.

13 Wood argues that it refers to Xerxes stirring up his own troops, not Greece (Wood, Daniel,
281).

14 H. W. Hoehner, “Between the Testaments,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, vol. 1 (Grand