And Daniel said, “You have certainly lied against your own head; for even now the angel of God has received the sentence of God and will cut you in two.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 55. Two. This punishment was not unusual: yet it is probable that the two old men were stoned to death by the law of retaliation. verse 61. Exodus 19:4. There is an allusion, in Greek, between schinon and schisei, and also between Prinos and prisei; (verse 58, 59) and hence it is concluded that this work was originally in that language. But there might be a similar allusion in Hebrew or Chal. or the translator might think it lawful to put one tree for another. Calmet.—We find a tree called shinar, in Persia. Tavern. iv. 6. It would be easy to produce similar allusions in the Latin ilex; thus ilico peribis, and so forth Menochius.