[107] Isa. lx. 14.
[108] Acts xii. 22, 23.
[109] Acts xiv. 11, 12, xxviii. 6.
[110] See Jer. xxxix. 3. And if he held this position, how could he be absent in chap. iii.?
[111] Namely, the words for "satraps," "governors," "counsellors," and "judges," as well as the courtiers in iii. 24. Bleek thinks that to enhance the stateliness of the occasion the writer introduced as many official names as he knew.
[112] Supra, p. 23.
[113] Athen., Deipnos., iv. 175.
[114] The Persian titles in iii. 24 alone suffice to indicate that this could not be Nebuchadrezzar's actual decree. See further, Meinhold, pp. 30, 31. We are evidently dealing with a writer who introduces many Persian words, with no consciousness that they could not have been used by Babylonian kings.
[115] The writer of Daniel was evidently acquainted with the Book of Ezekiel. See Delitzsch in Herzog, s.v. "Daniel," and Driver, p. 476.
[116] See iv. 16, 25-30.