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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V DANIEL I. Attacks Of Rat1onal1sts Aga1nst The Prophec1es Of Dan1el.--Rationalistic critics are unanimous in rejecting the authenticity of the Book of Daniel. It contains very circumstantial predictions, hence it must have been composed, according to them, only post eventum, that is, after the events of which it speaks had already been fulfilled. Let us listen to Kuenen: "The author of the Book of Daniel does not see any further than the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, an event... which according to him coincides with the coming of the Messiah. This exegetical result permits us to come to a certain conclusion as to the date of the book. And first, the various facts which we have pointed out are absolutely incompatible with the traditional hypothesis which maintains the authenticity of this book.... If Daniel is the author, he could know the future only by a direct revelation from God; but then, the errors into which he falls must necessarily be attributed to the same source, a fatal consequence to which he can escape only in having recourse to gratuitous hypotheses or forced explanations. Often the author ignores or knows badly the contemporary or about contemporary events of Daniel's time. Can the traditional hypothesis ever hope to render an account of a phenomenon so surprising for it? We are fortunately not obliged to content ourselves with this purely negative result. In summing up the facts... we see that the date of the book reveals itself. The author has a wonderful knowledge of the principal events of the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (175-163 B. C.), for at least those which concern Palestine; the worship of the temple has been already interrupted, the small idolatrous altar has been established (twenty-fifth of chisleu 167 B. C.); the com...
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