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On Daniel.
I.
Preface by the most holy Hippolytus, (Bishop) of
Rome.1285
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Simon de Magistris, Daniel secundum Septuaginta, from the
Codex Chisianus, Rome, 1772; and Mai, Script. vet. collectio
nova, i. iii. ed. 1831, pp. 29–56. |
As I wish to give an accurate account of the times
of the captivity of the children of Israel in Babylon, and to discuss
the prophecies contained in the visions of the blessed Daniel, (as well
as) his manner of life from his boyhood in Babylon, I too shall proceed
to bear my testimony to that holy and righteous man, a prophet and
witness of Christ, who not only declared the visions of Nebuchadnezzar
the king in those times, but also trained youths of like mind with
himself, and raised up faithful witnesses in the world. He is
born, then, in the time of the prophetic ministry of the blessed
Jeremiah, and in the reign of Jehoiakim or Eliakim. Along with
the other captives, he is carried off a prisoner to Babylon. Now
there are born to the blessed Josiah these five sons—Jehoahaz,
Eliakim, Johanan, Zedekiah, or Jeconiah, and Sadum.1286
And on his father’s death,
Jehoahaz is anointed as king by the people at the age of twenty-three
years. Against him comes up Pharaoh-Necho, in the third month of
his reign; and he takes him (Jehoahaz) prisoner, and carries him into
Egypt, and imposes tribute on the land to the extent of one hundred
talents of silver and ten talents of gold. And in his stead he
sets up his brother Eliakim as king over the land, whose name also he
changed to Jehoiakim, and who was then eleven years old. Against
him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,1287
and carries him off prisoner to
Babylon, taking with him also some of the vessels of the house in
Jerusalem. Thrown into prison as a friend of Pharaoh, and as one
set up by him over the kingdom,1288
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2 Kings xxv. 27. Note the confusion between
Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin in what follows. | he is released at length in the
thirty-seventh year by Evil-Merodach king of Babylon; and he cut his
hair short, and was counsellor to him, and ate at his table until the
day that he died. On his removal, his son Jehoiakim1289
reigns three
years.1290
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τριμήνιον =
three months. | And against
him came up Nebuchadnezzar, and transports him and ten thousand of the
men of his people to Babylon, and sets up in his stead his
father’s brother, whose name he changed also to Zedekiah; and
after making agreement with him by oath and treaty, he returns to
Babylon. This (Zedekiah), after a reign of eleven years, revolted
from him and went over to Pharaoh king of Egypt. And in the tenth
year Nebuchadnezzar came against him from the land of the Chaldeans,
and surrounded the city with a stockade, and environed it all round,
and completely shut it up. In this way the larger number of them
perished by famine, and others perished by the sword, and some were
taken prisoners, and the city was burned with fire, and the temple and
the wall were destroyed. And the army of the Chaldeans seized all
the treasure that was found in the house of the Lord, and all the
vessels of gold and silver; and all the brass, Nebuzaradan, chief of
the slaughterers,1291
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ἀρχιμάγειρος,
“chief cook.” | stripped off,
and carried it to Babylon. And the army of the Chaldeans pursued
Zedekiah himself as he fled by night along with seven hundred men, and
surprised him in Jericho, and brought him to the king of Babylon at
Reblatha. And the king pronounced judgment upon him in wrath,
because he had violated the oath of the Lord, and the agreement he had
made with him; and he slew his sons before his face, and put
out Zedekiah’s eyes. And he cast him into chains of iron,
and carried him to Babylon; and there he remained grinding at the mill
until the day of his death. And when he died, they took his body
and cast it behind the wall of Nineveh. In his case is fulfilled
the prophecy of Jeremiah, saying, “(As) I live, saith the Lord,
though Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah should become the signet
upon my right hand, yet will I pluck thee thence; and I will give thee
into the hands of them that seek thy life, of them whose face thou
fearest, even into the hands of the Chaldeans. And I will cast
thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into a country where thou wast
not born; and there ye shall die. But to the land which they
desire in their souls, I will not send thee back. Dishonoured is
Jeconias, like an unserviceable vessel, of which there is no use, since
he is cast out and expelled into a land which he knew not. O
earth, hear the word of the Lord. Write this man, a man
excommunicate; for no man of his seed shall prosper (grow up), sitting
upon the throne of David, ruling any more in Judah.”1292
Thus the
captivity in Babylon befell them after the exodus from Egypt.
When the whole people, then, was transported, and the city made
desolate. and the sanctuary destroyed, that the word of the Lord might
be fulfilled which He spake by the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, “The sanctuary shall be desolate seventy
years;”1293
then we find
that the blessed Daniel prophesied in Babylon, and appeared as the
vindicator of Susanna.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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