![]() The following section (iii, 31-iv Vulgate, iii, 98-iv) contains Nabuchodonosor‘s letter to all peoples and nations, recounting his dream of a mighty tree hewed down at God‘s bidding, and its interpretation by Daniel, together with its fulfilment in the form of a seven years’ madness which befell the king, and the recovery from which was the occasion of his thankful letter. The next section (iii, 1-30 Vulgate, iii, 1-23, 91-97) narrates how Daniel‘s three companions, having refused to worship a colossal statue set up by Nabuchodonosor, were cast into a highly-heated furnace in which they were preserved unharmed, whereupon the king issued a decree in favor of their God and promoted them to places of dignity. Daniel‘s interpretation was to the effect that the several parts of the statue with their various materials symbolized as many monarchies with their respective power, while the stone which destroyed them and grew into a great mountain prefigured a universal and everlasting kingdom which would break in pieces all the other kingdoms, and which, of course, is no other than that of the Messias. Nabuchodonosor‘s dream was that of a great statue made up of various materials and broken in pieces by a small stone which became a mountain and filled the whole earth. The second chapter relates a disquieting dream of the king which Daniel alone was able accurately to set forth and interpret. It introduces to the reader the Hebrew heroes of the book, Daniel and his three fellow-captives, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias, and records the manner in which these noble youths obtained a high rank in Nabuchodonosor‘s service, although they had refused to be defiled by eating of the royal food. The opening chapter of the first series may be considered as a preface to the whole work. i-vi), and the second, a series of visions which are described in the first person (chaps. The first includes a series of narratives which are told in the third person (chaps. PROTO-CANONICAL PORTIONS.-(I) Contents.-The Book of Daniel, as it now stands in the ordinary Hebrew Bibles, is generally divided into two main parts. As in the Vulgate nearly all the deutero-canonical portions of that prophetical writing form a kind of appendix to its proto-canonical contents in the Hebrew text, the present article will deal first with the Book of Daniel as it is found in the Hebrew Bible, and next, with its deutero-canonical portions. ![]() In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of Holy Writ, it comprises both its proto- and its deutero-canonical parts, which two sets of parts have an equal right to be considered as inspired, and to be included in a treatment of the Book of Daniel. Daniel, Book of.-In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to its proto-canonical portions.
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