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THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL
DANIEL, whose name signifies THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, was of the royal bloodof the kings of Juda: and one of those that were first of all carriedaway into captivity. He was so renowned for wisdom and knowledge, thatit became a proverb among the Babylonians, AS WISE AS DANIEL (Ezech.28.3). And his holiness was so great from his very childhood, that atthe time when he was as yet but a young man, he is joined by the SPIRITof GOD with NOE and JOB, as three persons most eminent for virtue andsanctity, Ezech. 14. He is not commonly numbered by the Hebrews amongTHE PROPHETS: because he lived at court, and in high station in theworld: but if we consider his many clear predictions of things to come,we shall find that no one better deserves the name and title of APROPHET: which also has been given him by the SON of GOD himself, Matt.24, Mark 13., Luke 21.
Daniel Chapter 1
Daniel and his companions are taken into the palace of the king ofBabylon: they abstain from his meat and wine, and succeed better withpulse and water. Their excellence and wisdom.
1:1. In the third year of the reign of Joakim, king of Juda,Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, and beseiged it.
1:2. And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, andpart of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away intothe land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he broughtinto the treasure house of his god.
His god… Bel or Belus, the principal idol of the Chaldeans.
1:3. And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master of the eunuchs, that heshould bring in some of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed,and of the princes,
1:4. Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilfulin all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and suchas might stand in the king's palace, that he might teach them thelearning, and tongue of the Chaldeans.
1:5. And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat, andof the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three years,afterwards they might stand before the king.
1:6. Now there was among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, Ananias,Misael, and Azarias.
1:7. And the master of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel,Baltassar: to Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias,Abdenago.
1:8. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled withthe king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested themaster of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.
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