The Hebrew word ( shal e vah) means, properly, tranquility, security, ease, carelessness. 212), and a great part of his success was owing to craft and policy.Īnd he shall magnify himself in his heart – Shall be lifted up with pride, or esteem himself of great consequence.Īnd by peace shall destroy many – Margin, prosperity. He came to the kingdom by deceit (Prideaux, iii. The same character is given of him by Polybius, Relig. See his history in Prideaux, above referred to, and the books of Maccabees. This was true in an eminent sense, of Antiochus. He shall cause craft to prosper in his hand – He shall owe his success in a great measure to a crafty policy, to intrigue, and to cunning. So it is rendered here by Gesenius, and the meaning is, that he would owe his success in a great measure to craft and subtilty. 194 f.).įuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and CollegesĪnd through his policy – The word rendered policy here ( s’ekel) means, properly, intelligence, understanding, wisdom and then, in a bad sense, craft, cunning. 164, a few months after the re-dedication of the Temple (25 Chisleu, 165), apparently from some mental disorder, such as might well suggest the idea of a Divine stroke, at Tabae in Persia (see p. not by human means, but by a Divine intervention cf. Dan 2:47 and the ‘Lord of lords’ of Deu 10:17, Psa 136:3.īroken without hand ] i.e. God, the ‘prince of the host’ of Dan 8:11. ),’ and killed many of its inhabitants (cf. 1Ma 1:29-30, where it is related how Antiochus’s chief collector of tribute, Apollonius, came to Jerusalem, and ‘spake words of peace unto them in subtilty, and they gave him credence and he fell upon the city suddenly ( : Pesh.
expression ( ‘in tranquillity’) is used with the force of a similar Aramaic idiom suddenly, unawares, (lit. Many modern scholars render indeed by unawares, supposing that the Heb. he will come upon them unawares, and destroy them while off their guard.
‘stoutness,’ ‘stout’).Īnd in (time of) security he will destroy many ] i.e. the expression ‘ greatness of heart’ Isa 9:9 Isa 10:12 (A.V. on Dan 8:4), devise proud, presumptuous schemes. It is against the reading of lxx (followed by Grtz and Bevan), that does not signify, or ‘mind.’Īnd in his heart he will shew greatness ] i.e. See on the construction Ges.-Kautzsch, 112. He (without ‘also’) will cause deceit to prosper in his hand ] his intrigues will prove successful (cf.
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