[447] Cyrop., I. v. 2.
[448] Antt., X. xi. 4. This was the view of Vitringa, Bertholdt, Gesenius, Winer, Keil, Hengstenberg, Hävernick, etc.
[449] Ad. Q. Fratr., i. 8.
[450] The view of Niebuhr and Westcott.
[451] See Herod., i. 109. The Median Empire fell b.c. 559; Babylon was taken about b.c. 539. It is regarded as "important" that a late Greek lexicographer, long after the Christian era, makes the vague and wholly unsupported assertion that the "Daric" was named after some Darius other than the father of Xerxes! See supra, pp. 57-60.
[452] Lam. iv. 7.
[453] Isa. xliv. 25, 26.
[454] Isa. xliii. 2.
[455] Ezek. xxxi. 2-15.
[456] Prov. xvi. 18.