[267] Antt., X. x. 3.
[268] 2 Chron. xxxv. 21. See The Second Book of Kings, p. 404 (Expositor's Bible).
[269] See Professor Fuller, Speaker's Commentary, vi. 265.
[270] Malcolm, Hist. of Persia, i. 39.
[271] The belief that dreams come from God is not peculiar to the Jews, or to Egypt, or Assyria, or Greece (Hom., Il., i. 63; Od., iv. 841), or Rome (Cic., De Div., passim), but to every nation of mankind, even the most savage.
[272] Dan. ii. 1: "His dreaming brake from him." Comp. vi. 18; Esther vi. 1: Jerome says, "Umbra quædam, et, ut ita dicam, aura somnii atque vestigium remansit in corde regis, ut, referentibus aliis posset reminisci eorum quæ viderat."
[273] Gen. xli. 8; Schrader, K. A. T., p. 26; Records of the Past, i. 136.
[274] The word is peculiar to Daniel, both here in the Hebrew and in the Aramaic. Pusey calls it "a common Syriac term, representing some form of divination with which Daniel had become familiar in Babylonia" (p. 40).
[275] Exod. vii. 11; Deut. xviii. 10; Isa. xlvii. 9, 12. Assyrian Kashshapu.
[276] As in the rule "Chaldæos ne consulito." See supra, p. 48.