COMMENTARIES

ON THE

BOOK OF THE PROPHET DANIEL.

BY JOHN CALVIN.

NOW FIRST TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, AND COLLATED
WITH THE FRENCH VERSION, WITH DISSERTATIONS, NEW
TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT, AND COPIOUS INDICES,

BY THOMAS MYERS, M.A.,

VICAR OF SHERIFF-HUTTON, YORKSHIRE.

VOLUME SECOND.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR THE CALVIN TRANSLATION SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.LIII.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall ]

EDINBURGH; PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

I. A CONTINUATION OF THE TRANSLATED LECTURES, FROM

CHAPTER VII. TO THE END.

II. DISSERTATIONS EXPLANATORY OF REMARKABLE PHRASES

AND EVENTS, AS, THE TIMES-THE WONDERFUL NUM-

BERER THE LITTLE HORN-THE SEVENTY WEEKS—

THE WILFUL KING-THE PROTRACTED WARS OF THE

KINGS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH-THE ABOMINATION OF

DESOLATION-THE MAHUZZIM-MICHAEL THE PRINCE

-THE 1335 DAYS.

III. A CONNECTED TRANSLATION OF CALVIN'S VERSION OF THE

HEBREW AND CHALDEE TEXT.

IV. A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORICAL AND PROPHETICAL POR-
TIONS OF THE WHOLE BOOK ACCORDING TO CALVIN'S
VIEW OF ITS CONTENTS.

V. A NOTICE of Ancient Codexes and VERSIONS.

VI. A LIST OF THE MOST VALUABLE ANCIENT AND MODERN

EXPOSITIONS OF THIS PROPHET, with concise EPITOMES

OF THE MOST IMPORTANT.

VII. AN INDEX OF THE SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES QUOTED THROUGH-

OUT.

VIII. INDEX OF THE HEBREW WORDS ILLUSTRATED.

IX. A COPIOUS INDEX OF THE CHIEF WORDS AND SUBJECTS

TREATED OF IN THESE VOLUMES.

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THE PRAYER

WHICH JOHN CALVIN WAS ACCUSTOMED TO USE AT THE

COMMENCEMENT OF HIS LECTURES.

GRANT unto us, O LORD, to be occupied in the mysteries of thy Heavenly wisdom, with true progress in piety, to thy glory and our own edification.-AMEN.

** This prayer is not inserted in the Geneva edition of 1617, but is found in that of 1571. The FRENCH TRANSLATION renders it as follows:66 May the Lord grant us grace so to treat the secrets of His celestial wisdom, that we may truly profit in the fear of His holy name, to His glory and to our edification. Amen."

HERE Daniel begins to offer instruction peculiar to the Church. For God had formerly appointed him an interpreter and instructor to profane kings. But he now appoints him a teacher to the Church, that he may exercise his office within it, and instruct the sons of God in the bosom of the Church. We must notice this first of all, because thus far his predictions extended beyond the limits of the household of faith, but here Daniel's duty is restricted to the Church. He says: This vision was bestowed upon him in the first year of King Belshazzar, before that change happened, which we have previously seen. First of all, we must try to understand the design of the Holy Spirit; that is, the end and use for which he opened up to Daniel the material of this chapter. All the prophets had held out to the clect people the hope of deliverance, after God had punished them for 1 Some translate "rising out of.”—Calvin.