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Daniel is a difficult book. But it is a book about the meaning of history, and people today need its message. The whole church needs reassurance, especially in view of Marxist claims to be able by human effort to introduce a utopian world government. “When the church lets part of its message go by default people look elsewhere for a substitute,” writes Joyce Baldwin. “All the more reason, then,...

Judah’s king into enemy hands. This name for God, a ‘plural of majesty’, designates him the exalted one, responsible for all that happens to his people, and to be trusted even in disaster (Isa. 43:2). It is not a long step from this conviction to Paul’s ‘prisoner for the Lord’ (Eph. 4:1). The land of Shinar is a deliberate archaism, ‘corrected’ in the Greek to ‘Babylon’. Shinar, site of the tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9; cf. 10:10), was synonymous with opposition to God; it was the place where wickedness
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