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Coele-Syria, the dowry which had hitherto been refused (Polyb. 28:1; Diodor., Leg. 18, 624
Wess.; Livy, 42:49). Antiochus, on the other hand, would not acknowledge that his father
hadpromised such a dowry (Polyb., 28:17), and therefore refused to grant it” (F. Hitzig,
Kuragefasstes exeget. Handbuch zum A. T.; 10th pamphlet, Das Buch Daniel [Leipsig, 1850]).
Zöckler, “Daniel,” 247.
38 Cf. Yohanan Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah, The MacMillan Bible Atlas (New York:
Macmillan, 1968), 117.
39 Joyce C. Baldwin, Daniel, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL:
InterVarsity, 1978), 192.
40 Price, In the Final Days, 76–80.
41 A detailed description of the violent atrocities and murder of thousands of Jews by Antiochus
while marching through Judea is found in 1 Maccabees 1:20–28 and 2 Maccabees 5:11–17.
42 Polybius, Histories 29.27.4.
43 For a recent attempt to do so, see John Goldingay, Daniel, Word Biblical Commentary, David
A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker, eds. (Dallas: Word, 1989), 304–5.
44 Zöckler, “Daniel,” 251.
45 Edward B. Pusey, Daniel the Prophet (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885), 139.
46 Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, 136.
47 Ibid., 130.
48 Montgomery, Daniel, 464ff.
49 Ibid., 465.
50 Porteous writes, “Attempts to reconcile this passage in Daniel with the well-attested facts of
history are a waste of time” (Porteous, Daniel, 170).
51 Young, Daniel, 246–47.
52 John N. Darby, Studies on the Book of Daniel (London: G. Morrish, n.d.), 107–14.
53 A. C. Gaebelein, The Prophet Daniel (New York: Our Hope Publishers, 1911), 180–95.
54 Montgomery, Daniel, 461.
55 Josephus says that Antiochus ordered the Jews to “forsake the worship which they paid to
their own God, and to adore those whom he took to be gods” (Josephus, Antiquities 12.5.4).
56 Gaebelein, Daniel, 188.
57 Montgomery, Daniel, 461–62.
