45-49. The inspiration of Daniel to clear her.
50-59. He re-opens the case, and proves the Elders to be false.
60-62. The death-penalty is transferred to them, and Susanna is delivered,
63, 64. Whose family thank God; while Daniel's reputation is established.
N.B.—It is not clear why the 'heading' or 'contents' in the A.V. begins with v. 16. Cf. the heading of Bel and the Dragon for a similar ignoring of the early verses, as also that of I. Macc. i.
Title And Position.
Title.
This is in general simply Σουσάννα, as in the true LXX.
In Cod. A (Θ) it is designated at the end ὅρασις α', our chap. i. being ὅρασις β', and so on. It is therefore included in the number of the visions.[[29]] Ὅρασις also occurs in the title of Holmes and Parsons' cursive 235.
[29] It is stated in Dr. Swete's Introd. (1902, p. 260) that Susanna is excluded from the visions, Dan. i. 1 commencing the first of them. But this is not borne out by the 'apparatus criticus' to his Greek text, where i. 1 in A and Q begins ὃρασις β', and ὅρασις α' is the subscription of Susanna in A.