DANIEL 
tion, the fame of the prophet was augmented, and he had 
additional reafens for holding him in high eftimation. And 
2s Daniel had earneftly fupplicated the Almighty for the re- 
sa on . his pals. the a (fee Dan. ix.) it is rea- 
150 years before he was born, as one who 
figned to be a great conqueror, and king over many m= 
tions, and the reftorer of his people, in caufing the temple 
uilt, and the land of Judah and the city of Jerufa- 
lem to be again occupied by its former inhabitamts. Jofe- t 
ena tells us, (lib. xi. c. x.) that Cyrus had feen and read 
thefe prophecies; and it is plain from Scripture that this 
was the cafe ; they are recited in his decree in Ezra 
i. 2.) for the rebuilding of the temple. Who, indeed, 
as more likely to fhew thefe prophecies to Cyrus than Da- 
niel, who by his {tation had conftant accefs to him, and who 
moft anxious for feeing the accomplithment of thefe 
prophecies ? When the Samaritans, in th year of Cyrus, 
- 534, obftructed and retarded the execution of Cyrus’s 
decree for the rebuilding of the temple ; c 
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feems to have — himfelf to mourning and faft 
for three days; and he afterwards had the vifion alread 
mentioned nae the fucceffion of the kings of Pertia, 
the empire of the Macedonians, and the conquetts of the 
Romans, &c. of which the three laft chapters of his pro- 
phecies contain an account. From what is written in the 
econclufion of the laft of thefe, we may infer that he died 
n after; and, indeed his great age renders it unlikely 
ave furvived much longer. For the 3d of 
Cyrus being the 73d year of his captivity, if he were 18 
when he was ae to Babylon, he muft have 
been in the gift year of his age at this time, a ga of 
years to which ce attained in thofe days. The place of 
Daniel’s death and burial is not afcertained. Some have 
fuppofed that he died in Chaldza, cena probabl u detained 
there by his 
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verbatim out of Jofephus, places it in Sufain Perfia, 
we may conclude that the copy of Jo legs, a "by him, 
had this reading ; and this is moft likely to b or 
Sufa being within the Babylonifh a : ‘ie ‘Sean 
tells us, that Daniel fometimes refided — 3 and it has 
been a common tradition in thofe parts for many ages paft, 
that Daniel died in that city, which is now a “ Tuf- 
— and there they fhew his monument. (Itinerary 
Benjamin of Tudela.) It is alfo to be obferved, that Jo- 
fephus calls this building Baris, which is the fame by 
which Daniel himfelf calls the caftle or palace at Shufhan 
for what we tranflate “at Shufhan in the pa- 
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the Birah of Daniel is the 
ith the Baris of Jofephus; and both fignifies this pa: 
es or a built there by Daniel, while he was governor 
of that province 
Daniel was a very extraordinary perfon, both for — 
and piety, and exhibits an example of conftanc 
taining his religious principles and profeffion, ae eT ae 
ing the temptations. of a ee and ponies ee 
and ich n ntem- 
of a corrupt idolatrous court, w 
oe without admiration, and whi S och to eee a 
laudable emulat 
NIEL, Book. of a canonical book ae Old Teflament, 
fo denominated from its author, Daniel, of whofe hiftory- 
and character we have given a oe f Meet in the preceding 
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article. See Binve and Cano 
The book of Daniel may be “divided into two parts; the 
jf is hiftorical, and contains a relation of feveral incidents 
that oceurred with regard to Daniel himfelf, and the Jew 
under feveral kings at Babylon: the fecond, be ane 
at the 7th chapter, and ending at the rath, comprehends 
the vifions and prophecies, with which he was favoured, 
m to foretell various events, that per=- 
tained to monarchies of the world, the e of the 
dvent and death the Meffiah, and the deftruGion of the 
kingdom ews of this boo 
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wrote of th I abyl 
hereft isin Hebrew. ‘The Greek tranflation of this book, 
ufed by the Greek churches throu 1 the eaftern coun- 
adopted 
LXX. verfion too faulty to be ufed in their churches. 
the vulgar Latin edition of the Bibie, as well as in the 
Greek tranflation of the book of Daniel by Theodotion, 
there is added in the third chapter after the 23d verfe, be-, 
tween that and the 24th verfe, the fong of the three chil- 
dren, Hanantah, Mifhael, and Azariah, who were caft into 
the fiery furnace; and at the end of the book, the hittory- 
of Sufanna, and of Bel and the Dragon; the former is 
made the 13th, and the other the r4th chapter of the book 
in that edition: :——but thefe additions were never received 
into the canon of Holy Writ by the Jewifh church, tie 
are they extant ithe in the Hebrew or the Cha an-~ 
guages, nor 
That they were originally written in the Greek tongue by 
fome Helleniftic Jew, without having any higher fource, from 
which they are derived, appears trom this circumflance, that 
in the hilkory of Sufanna, Daniel, in his replies to the elders, 
alludes to the aa names of the trees, under which, t ey 
ae upon Sufanna it 
ge vod in foal other language. 
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linarius have fea th 
canonical, but alfo as fabulous 
admitted them for inftraétion of manners, hele neverthelefs, 
rejected them from the canonical Scri in whic 
refpe& they are followed by the bie pie which 
exclude them from the canonical, and a them to the 
apocryphal writings. See ArocayPas a Bex and the 
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Ti te prope of Daniel, = the advent of the 
Meffiah, and other important events, of times far rem 
from thofe in which he lived, are fo clear and explicit, that 
Porphyry. tdwards the clofe of the third century after 
Chnift, alleged agaipft them, that they mutt at been 
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by the ancient Chriftians, becaufe they found the 
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we any evidence, that they ever were fo.. 
