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Daniel
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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, See also: Daniel 11:1Daniel 5:31Daniel 1:21in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. See also: Jeremiah 29:10Jeremiah 25:11-122 Chronicles 36:21I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting in sackcloth and ashes. See also: Jeremiah 29:10-13Jeremiah 33:3James 5:16-18I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, See also: Romans 8:28Exodus 20:6Deuteronomy 5:10we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances. See also: Malachi 3:7Daniel 9:11Daniel 9:15We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. See also: Daniel 9:102 Chronicles 36:15-16Zechariah 1:4-6“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today—to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. See also: Jeremiah 3:25Psalms 44:15Deuteronomy 4:27Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. See also: Daniel 9:6-7Lamentations 3:42Lamentations 1:7-8To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him. See also: Ephesians 1:6-8Daniel 9:7Psalms 86:15We haven’t obeyed the LORD our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. See also: Daniel 9:62 Kings 18:12Nehemiah 9:13-17Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, and not obeying your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him. See also: Jeremiah 8:5-10Isaiah 1:4-6Deuteronomy 28:15-68He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem. See also: Ezekiel 5:9Lamentations 1:12Lamentations 2:17As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth. See also: Deuteronomy 28:15-68Isaiah 9:13Jeremiah 2:30Therefore the LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice. See also: Daniel 9:7Nehemiah 9:33Psalms 51:14“Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today, we have sinned. We have done wickedly. See also: Nehemiah 9:10Daniel 9:5Exodus 14:18Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us. See also: Zechariah 8:3Psalms 87:1-3Psalms 31:1“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. See also: Psalms 80:19Lamentations 5:18Psalms 80:3My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by your name; for we don’t present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. See also: Isaiah 37:17Jeremiah 36:72 Kings 19:16Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” See also: Daniel 9:18Ephesians 1:12Jeremiah 14:9While I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God— See also: Psalms 145:18Daniel 9:3-4Romans 3:23yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. See also: Daniel 8:16Luke 1:191 Kings 18:36He instructed me and talked with me, and said, “Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding. See also: Daniel 9:24-27Daniel 8:16Daniel 10:21At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision. See also: Daniel 10:19Matthew 24:15Daniel 10:11-12“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to put an end to sin, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. See also: Hebrews 9:11-14Romans 5:10Jeremiah 23:5-6“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again with street and moat, even in troubled times. See also: Ezra 4:24John 1:41Isaiah 9:6After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined. See also: Isaiah 53:8Nahum 1:8Mark 13:2He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate. Even to the full end that is decreed, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.” See also: Matthew 24:15Daniel 12:11Mark 13:14
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Daniel 9:1
Ver. 1. Darius, the Mede. C. v. 31. If his reign had commenced at the same time with that of Cyrus, at Babylon, as it is commonly supposed, Daniel would have been under no anxiety respecting the people's liberation, as it took place that year, (C.) though perhaps not at the commencement. H. --- Cyrus had now ruled over the Persians above two years, so that the first of Darius at Babylon agrees with the third of his reign over his countrymen. C. x. C. ---
Assuerus, or Achasuerus, is not a proper name, but means "a great prince." W.
↑ 1Daniel 9:2
Ver. 2. Jerusalem. He read attentively the sacred volumes, particularly the prophecy of Jer. xxv.
11. and xxix. 10. Knowing that many predictions were conditional, he was afraid lest this might be so; notwithstanding a part of it seemed to be verified by the death of Baltassar. C. --- Darius had reigned in Persia before. He only ruled part of a year, at Babylon, the 70th of the captivity. 2
Par. xxxvi. 22. Daniel perceiving that the time of the Jews' deliverance was at hand, prayed with great zeal and confidence. W.
↑ 2Daniel 9:4
Ver. 4. Covenant. God never breaks it first. C. --- Deus suâ gratiâ semel justificatos non deserit, nisi ab eis prius diseratur. Trid. Sess. vi. 11.
↑ 4Daniel 9:9
Ver. 9. Mercy. Thou art just, (v. 7.) and sovereignly merciful. He speaks in the name of all.
Some had continued faithful; but the number was comparatively inconsiderable. v. 11.
↑ 9Daniel 9:11
Ver. 11. Fallen, by drops, ( stillavit. Deut. xxvii. 13. &c. H.) like an inundation.
↑ 11Daniel 9:13
Ver. 13. Truth, in executing thy promises and menaces.
↑ 13Daniel 9:16
Ver. 16. Against. Heb. "according to." --- Justice. Sept. "mercy." Let not the enemy boast that he has ruined thy temple, &c. v. 17. C.
↑ 16Daniel 9:21
Ver. 21. The man Gabriel. The angel Gabriel in the shape of a man. Ch. C. viii.
16. ---
Sacrifice, between the two vespers, (Num. xxviii. 4.) after the ninth hour, which was a time of prayer. Acts iii. 1. C.
↑ 21Daniel 9:23
Ver. 23. Desires. His zeal and mortification merit this title. W. --- He was an object of God's love. S. Jer. C. x. 11. and xi. 8. C.
↑ 23Daniel 9:24
Ver. 24. Seventy weeks (viz. of years, or seventy times seven, that is, 490
years) are shortened; that is, fixed and determined, so that the time shall be no longer. Ch. --- This is not a conditional prophecy. Daniel was solicitous to know when the seventy years of Jeremias would terminate.
But something of far greater consequence is revealed to him, (W.) even the coming and death of the Messias, four hundred and ninety years after the order for rebuilding the walls should be given, (C.) at which period Christ would redeem the world, (W.) and abolish the sacrifices of the law. C. ---
Finished, or arrive at its height by the crucifixion of the Son of God; (Theod.) or rather sin shall be forgiven. Heb. "to finish crimes to seal ( cover or remit) sins, and to expiate iniquity." --- Anointed. Christ is the great anointed of God, the source of justice, and the end of the law and of the prophets, (Acts x. 38.
and 1 Cor. i. 30. Rom. x. 4. C.) as well as the pardoner of crimes. These four characters belong only to Christ. W.
↑ 24Daniel 9:25
Ver. 25. Word, &c. That is, from the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, when, by his commandment, Nehemias rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, 2 Esd. ii. From which time, according to the best chronology, there were just sixty-nine weeks of years, the is 483 years, to the baptism of Christ, when he first began to preach and execute the office of Messias. Ch. --- The prophecy is divided into three periods: the first of forty-nine years, during which the walls were completed; (they had been raised in fifty-two days, (2 Esd. vi. 15.) but many other fortifications were still requisite) the second of four hundred and thirty-four years, at the end of which Christ was baptized, in the fifteenth of Tiberius, the third of three years and a half, during which Christ preached. In the middle of this last week, the ancient sacrifices became useless, (C.) as the true Lamb of God had been immolated. Theod. --- A week of years denotes seven years, as Lev. xxv.
and thus seventy of these weeks would make four hundred and ninety years.
V. Bede. Rat. temp.
6 &c. W. --- Origen would understand 4900 years, and dates from the fall of Adam to the ruin of the temple. Marsham begins twenty-one years after the captivity commenced, when Darius took Susa, and ends in the second of Judas, when the temple was purified. This system would destroy the prediction of Christ's coming, and is very uncertain. Hardouin modifies it, and acknowledges that Christ was the end of the prophecy, though it was fulfilled in figure by the death of Onias III.
See 1 Mac. i. 19. Senens. Bib. viii. hær. 12. and Estius. From C. vii. to xii. the changes in the East, till the time of Epiphanes, are variously described. After the angel had here addressed Daniel, the latter was still perplexed; (C. x. 1.) and in order to remove his doubts, the angel informs him of the persecution of Epiphanes, as if he had been speaking of the same event. We may, therefore, count forty-nine years from the taking of Jerusalem (when Jeremias spoke, C.
vi.
19.) to Cyrus, the anointed, (Is. xlv. 1.) who was appointed to free God's people.
They would still be under the Persians, &c. for other four hundred and thirty-four years, and then Onias should be slain. Many would join the Machabees; the sacrifices should cease in the middle of the seventieth week, and the desolation shall continue to the end of it. Yet, though this system may seem plausible, it is better to stick to the common one, which naturally leads us to the death of Christ, dating from the tenth year of Artaxerxes. C. --- He had reigned ten years already with his father.
Petau. --- All the East was persuaded that a great king should arise about the time; when our Saviour actually appeared, and fulfilled all that had been spoken of the Messias. C. Diss. ---
Ferguson says, "We have an astronomical demonstration of the truth of this ancient prophecy, seeing that the prophetic year of the Messias being cut off was the very same with the astronomical." In a dispute between a Jew and a Christian, at Venice, the Rabbi who presided...put an end to the business by saying, "Let us shut up our Bibles; for if we proceed in the examination of this prophecy, it will make us all become Christians." Watson, let. 6. ---
Hence probably the Jews denounce a curse on those who calculate the times, (H.) and they have purposely curtailed their chronology. C. --- Times, &c.
( angustia temporum) which may allude both to the difficulties and opposition they met with in building, and to the shortness of the time in which they finished the wall, viz. fifty-two days. Ch.
↑ 25Daniel 9:26
Ver. 26. Weeks, or four hundred and thirty-eight years, which elapsed from the twentieth of Artaxerxes to the death of Christ, according to the most exact chronologists. C. --- Slain. Prot.
"cut off, but not for himself, and the people of the prince that," &c. H. --- S.
Jerom and some MSS. read, Christus, et non erit ejus. The sense is thus suspended. The Jews lose their prerogative of being God's people. C. --- Christ will not receive them again. S. Jer. -- Gr. "the unction shall be destroyed, and there shall not be judgment in him." The priesthood and royal dignity is taken from the Jews. Theod. --- The order of succession among the high priests was quite deranged, while the country was ruled by the Romans, and by Herod, a foreigner. C. ---
Leader. The Romans under Titus. Ch. C.
↑ 26Daniel 9:27
Ver. 27. Many. Christ seems to allude to this passage. Mat. xxvi. 28. He died for all; but several of the Jews particularly, would not receive the proffered grace.
C. --- Of the week, or in the middle of the week, &c. Because Christ preached three years and a half: and then, by his sacrifice upon the cross, abolished all the sacrifices of the law. Ch. --- Temple. Heb. "the wing,"
(C.) or pinnacle, (H.) the highest part of the temple. C. --- Desolation. Some understand this of the profanation of the temple by the crimes of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots.
Others, of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standard of the pagan Romans. Others, in fine, distinguish three different times of desolation: viz.
that under Antiochus; that when the temple was destroyed by the Romans; and the last near the end of the world, under antichrist. To all which, as they suppose, this prophecy may have a relation. Ch. --- Prot. "For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even unto the consummation; and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolate." H. ---
The ruin shall be entire. C.
↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses