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autobiography is truly remarkable and reflects the fruitfulness of
Daniel’s influence upon him and probably of Daniel’s daily prayers for
him. Certainly God is no respecter of persons and can save the high and
mighty in this world as well as the lowly.
NOTES
1 H. C. Leupold, Exposition of Daniel (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1949), 204.
2 John Goldingay, Daniel, Word Biblical Commentary, David A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker,
eds. (Dallas: Word, 1989), 83–84.
3 Robert Henry Charles, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Oxford:
Clarendon, 1929), 79.
4 Ibid., 80.
5 James A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, The
International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927), 247–49.
6 Ibid., 222.
7 James B. Pritchard, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd. ed.
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 276, 289.
8 Ibid., 297.
9 Ibid.
10 Cf. Leupold, Daniel, 170–71.
11 Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), 99; Montgomery,
Daniel, 225–26.
12 Leupold, Daniel, 176; Samuel Rolles Driver, The Book of Daniel, The Cambridge Bible for
Schools and Colleges (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900), 48.
13 Driver, Daniel, 48, citing his essay “Hebrew Authority,” in Authority and Archeology, sacred
and profane; essays on the relation of monuments to Biblical and classical literature (London: J.
Murray, 1899), 137–38.
14 Young, Daniel, 99; cf. Driver, Daniel, 48.
15 Leupold, Daniel, 178.
16 Norman W. Porteous, Daniel: A Commentary, The Old Testament Library (Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1965), 68.