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Seventy Weeks.
Newell, Philip R. Daniel.
Pentecost, J. Dwight. Prophecy for Today, pp.
69-79.
Walvoord, John F. Daniel: The Key to
Prophetic Revelation.
Wood, Leon J. A Commentary on Daniel.
1. W. Graham Scroggie, Know Your Bible,
1:199.
2. John F. Walvoord, Daniel The key to
Prophetic Revelation, p,7.
3. This Darius has been identi ed as Gubaru,
general under Cyrus, king of Persia, whom Cyrus
made governor, or sub-king, over the region of
Chaldea (Babylonia). (Cf. 5:31; 6:1; 9:1.)
4. This dateline in 10:1 probably refers to the
third year of Cyrus’s rule over Babylon, or 536
B.C. The phrase “the rst year of Cyrus the king”


(1:21) probably has reference to the rst year of
the Jews’ permission to return to Jerusalem. See
Robert D. Culver, “Daniel,” in The Wycli e Bible
Commentary, p. 776.
5. Parts of other books (e.g., Ezekiel and
Zechariah) are apocalyptic.
6. Revelation and Daniel are very closely
related to each other, treating the same great
subjects, and using many of the same symbols.
Studying one helps in studying the other. One
author has written, “The writer of the

Apocalypse [Revelation] and Daniel have all
things in common, as though they have been let
together into the very arena of God.”
7. Westminster Study Edition of the Bible.
8. This linguistic structure of Daniel is fully
described by Culver in “Daniel,” in The Wycli e
Bible Commentary and in his book Daniel and the
Latter Days.
9. It may be observed here that Hebrew as the
Jews’ vernacular began to disappear during the
exile years, though it has always remained as


the language of the Jews’ religion. (Now, since
the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948,
Hebrew is once again the o cial native tongue
of the people.)
10. The Gentile section here is made to begin
at 2:1. Actually, Daniel began writing in
Aramaic at 2:46, to emphasize the change at the
natural point. The spirit of 2:1-4a brings those
verses into this Gentile section.
11. See Culver, Daniel and the Latter Days, pp.
14-15.
12. Walvoord, p. 27.
13. Read Culver, “Daniel,” in The Wycli e
Bible Commentary, pp. 790-91, for further light
on this subject.
14. This is the view held by Edward J. Young,
The Prophecy of Daniel.

15. Culver, “Daniel,” in The Wycli e Bible
Commentary, p. 795.


25
The Twelve Minor Prophets

The last twelve books of our Old
Testament are commonly referred to as the
minor prophets. These books will receive
our attention for the remainder of this study
guide.
I. TITLES
The common title for these books is
“minor prophets.” This title originated in
Augustine’s time (late fourth-century A.D.).
The books are “minor” only in the sense of
being much shorter than such prophecies as
Isaiah and Jeremiah (called “major
prophets”). Their message is surely not less
important today, nor was it when rst
delivered in Old Testament times. They were