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275 M. Hilton, “Babel Reversed-Daniel chapter 5," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (1995), pp. 99-112.

276 Peter E Laurent, The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus translated from the text by T. Gaisford (Oxford, 1837), 2^nd Edition, Vol 1, p. 152. http://books.google.com/books?id=DlIEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0

277 See the notes on verse 13.

278 See: Daniel’s Training – Selection (1.3-7).

279 Although ‘morals’ and ‘ethics’ may be used synonymously, morals can be defined as positive personal characteristics (e.g., just, truthful, loving, chaste, etc.), whereas ethics can be considered right conduct, or the specific application of moral principles in a social context (e.g., do not murder, steal, commit adultery, etc.).

280 Adapted from: Peter N. Stearns, Why Study History? American Historical Association; http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm

281 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

282 http://ebaumnation.com/2009/03/03/man-smears-feces-on-cross-in-protest

283 http://www.lyricsyoulove.com/n/nofx/blasphemy_victimless_crime/

284 http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44324

285 http://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=1475

286 http://www.thywordistruth.com/Songs/

287 The earth is approximately 40,000kms around, or 40,000,000 meters. ¼ of that distance (equator to north pole) gives 10,000,000 metres.

288 Al Wolters, Wordplay and History in Daniel 5, a lecture presented at Living Waters from Ancient Springs, a conference in honour of Dr. Cornelis Van Dam on the occasion of his retirement – First Annual Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary Lecture Series, 2011-01-07.

289 The Sumerians called the constellation Zib-ba An-na, meaning "the balance of heaven." The Akkadian name for the constellation, was zibanitu, meaning ‘scales’.

290 I.e., observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge.

291Herodotus, The Histories, Book I, paragraph 191; http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.mb.txt;; Xenophon, Cyropaedia – The Education of Cyrus; http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2085/2085-h/2085-h.htm.

292 However, some argue that the Shahnameh, the national epic of the Persians, tells of the last shah of Persia, who spent his final days hiding in a mill after the conquest of Persia by the Muslems. Refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh for more information on the Shahnameh.

293 Charles Boutflower, In and Around the Book of Daniel. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publishing Co., 1977, pp. 142-55.

294 H. C. Leupold, Exposition of Daniel, (Minneapolis, Augsburg, 1961), p. 238. See also, William H. Shea, “Darius the Mede: An Update,” Andrews University Seminary Studies 20. Autumn 1982, pp. 229-47,

295 John C Whitcomb, Darius the Mede: The Historical Chronology of Daniel, (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1959).

296http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_of_Nabonidus and http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/cylinder_of_nabonidus.aspx

297 D. J. Wiseman, “Some Historical Problems in the Book of Daniel,” in Notes on Some Problems in the Book of Daniel, pp. 12-14.

298 Some of these reason are drawn from: James M. Bulman, “The Identification of Darius the Mede,” Westminster Theological Journal, Vol 35, number 3, Spring 1973, pp. 247-267; http://www.scribd.com/doc/18735417/Identity-Of-Darius-The-Mede

299 Refer to the discussion about which decree of Cyrus is referred to in 9.25 in the section entitled Seventy Sevens.

300 As an example, Judges 8.29, 30 (compare 7.1; 8.35) translates the Hebrew ‘and’ as ‘now’.

301 As we noted when we studied chapter 5, verses 29-31, Darius is probably another name for Cyrus; we will use ‘Darius’ as we study chapter chatper 6, since Daniel uses the name ‘Darius’ in the Biblical text.

302Most of these examples were derived from “Illusory superiority” on Wikipedia where they are documented with references; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

303 Frank P. McKennaa, Robert A. Staniera and Clive Lewisa, "Factors underlying illusory self-assessment of driving skill in males and females,” Accident Analysis & Prevention, Vol. 23, Issue 1, February 1991, Pages 45-52.

304 Greg Bahnsen, "The Crucial Concept of Self-Deception in Presuppositional Apologetics," Westminster Theological Journal, LVII (1995) 1-31; http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pa207.htm

305 Kevin Kisilowsky, “One Canadian's story of Religious persecution, C.A.R.E. (Christian Apologetics Research & Evangelism) Ministries of Winnipeg; http://www.carewinnipeg.com/CanReligiousPersecution.html

306 Susan Lazaruk, “Homosexuals and BCHRT terrorize Christian B&B owners: Gays, gospels battle it out again in rights court,” No Apologies, 2010-03-12; http://noapologies.ca/?p=7296

307 http://community.feministing.com/2009/05/pregnancy-care-centres.html

308 http://www.catholic.com/library/Praying_to_the_Saints.asp

309 “You may have the body” is a legal recourse by which a person who is arrested can be released from unlawful detention when sufficient evidence of criminal actsis lacking.

310 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_Tax_Act_1842

311 http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/qt/incometax.htm

312 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Canada

313 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles

314 http://queencityma.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/roosevelt-signing-the-social-security-act-august-14-1935/

315 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Roosevelt_signing_declaration_of_war_against_Japan.jpg

316 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Roosevelt_signing_declaration_of_war_against_Germany.jpg

317 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/314791/119459/US-President-John-F-Kennedy-signing-the-Nuclear-Test-Ban

318 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/health/policy/24health.html

319 We will consider the problem of unintended consequences in law-making when we study the next section—Spite (10-18).

320 Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Annals, Book III, 27, 117 AD; http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D27

321 It is not anachronistic to refer to the OT believers as ‘Christians’. They were trusting in faith in the Anointed One (Messiah/Christ) as do NT believers.

322 The quality of having strong moral principles, honesty and decency.

323Ben Conery, “Supreme Court rules against group that bans gays”, Washington Post, 2010-06-24; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/28/supreme-court-rules-against-group-that-bans-gays/

324 http://www.carewinnipeg.com/Home/

325 http://www.carewinnipeg.com/Home/statement-of-faith

326 Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson: “And Babylons Fall,” Angels in the Architecture, Canon Press, 1998, p 153.

327 http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/Christian_Libertarian_Manifesto.htm.

328 We will consider the problem of unintended consequences in law-making when we study the next section—Spite (10-18).

329 Alex Tokarev, "Natural law," World Magazine blog, 2010-08-10; http://online.worldmag.com/2010/08/10/natural-law/

330 See the section entitled ‘Proclamation’, dealing with Nehemiah (8.7, 8), in: James R. Hughes, Nehemiah the Church Builder -- Instructor’s Guide, 2006; http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/Publications_JRHughes.htm

331 The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Commonly Called the Didache; http://www.ccel.org/ccel/richardson/fathers.viii.i.iii.html

332 http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/instructor-of-catholicism-let-go-for-teaching-homosexual-acts-are-immoral/

333 http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/teacher-gets-fired-when-colleague-rats-his-doubts-about-darwinism/

334 Chad Smith, "Dove World told it can't burn Qurans," The Gainesville Sun, 2010-08-19; http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100819/ARTICLES/8191045?tc=ar

335 Andrée Seu, “Dungy and Daniel,” World Magazine Blog, 2010-03-26; http://online.worldmag.com/tag/tony-dungy/

336Christopher J. Wright, Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (IVP, Downers Grove, IL, 2004), p. 247.

337 Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times, (HarperTorch, 1998).

338 Jean Perrot (Editor), John Curtis (Introduction), The Palace of Darius at Susa: The Great Royal Residence of Achaemenid Persia (I. B. Tauris, 2013), p. 42.

339 James Orr, et al, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE), 1939; http://www.internationalstandardbible.com/P/persian-religion-%28ancient%29.html

340 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequence

341 Karen Hawthorne, “Back to plastic? Reusable grocery bags may cause food poisoning.” National Post, 2009-05-20; http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/05/20/back-to-plastic-reusable-grocery-bags-may-pose-public-health-risk.aspx See also: Reusable Grocery Bags Contaminated With E. Coli, Other Bacteria

2010-06-24; http://www.physorg.com/news196621909.html

342 Ingrid Schlueter, Reusable Grocery Bags Warning, 2011-01-05; http://www.crosstalkblog.com/2011/01/reusable-grocery-bags-warning/

343 Steve Toloken, "Consumers buy heavier bags; plastics use rises after Hong Kong taxes bags," Plastics News, 2011-08-05; http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?id=22775&channel=110

344 Oil dispersant lingers in Gulf, Futurity 2011-01-27; http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/oil-dispersant-lingers-in-gulf/

345 Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, "Low-flow toilets cause a stink in SF," San Francisco Chronicle, 2011-02-28; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F02%2F28%2FBAVP1HUSUD.DTL

346 Justin Rohrlich, "McDonald's Scores Magnificent Win in Happy Meal Debacle," Minyanville, 2011-12-01; http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/happy-meal-ban-mcdonald2527s-happy-meal/12/1/2011/id/38178?page=full

347 ‘'I made a mistake': Al Gore's U-turn on corn ethanol as he admits the food-vs-fuel competition is real,” Daily Mail Reporter, 2010-11-23; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332231/Al-Gores-U-turn-corn-ethanol-I-mistake.html; see also: “Al Gore's Ethanol Epiphany,” Wall Street Journal, 2010-11-27; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572404575634753486416076.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

348 "Stranded at the Airport - A rule to stop tarmac delays leads to more flight cancellations," Wall Street Journal, Jan. 6, 2016-01-06; http://www.wsj.com/articles/stranded-at-the-airport-1452125387

349 Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics (William Morrow, New York, NY, 2005), pp. 25-37

350 Adam Radwanski, Caroline Alphonso and Karen Howlett, “Ontario Premier questions safeguards on standardized testing,” Globe and Mail, 2010-09-21; http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-premier-questions-safeguards-on-standardized-testing/article1717613/

351 Jen Singer, "The Unwise War Against Chocolate Milk: Schools that ban it find that kids drink less milk, period,” Wall Street Journal, 2011-04-19; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704004004576270773639365188.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

352 “Surprising consequences of banning chocolate milk,” Science Daily, 2014-04-16; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140416172247.htm

353 Alice G. Walton, “New Playgrounds Are Safe—and That's Why Nobody Uses Them.” The Atlantic, 2012-02-01,

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/new-playgrounds-are-safe-and-thats-why-nobody-uses-them/252108/

354 D.C. Innes, "Don’t mess with texting," World Magazine, 2011-02-09; http://online.worldmag.com/2011/02/09/dont-mess-with-texting/

355 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere

356 ‘Hate crimes’ legislation is effectively unenforceable because it isn’t possible for human judges to determine real motives. For an example, see: Richard Weir, “Lawyer: Lesbians’ assault on gay man can’t be hate crime,” Boston Herald (2012-02-25); http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220225lawyer_lesbians_assault_on_gay_man_cant_be_hate_crime/srvc=home&position=2

357 Anselm, Proslogium, Chapter 2.

358 Calvin, Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Daniel; http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom24.xii.xx.html

359 “How to Keep More Kids on the Streets,” Wall Street Journal, 2012-03-13; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203458604577263033966950776.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

360 Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel – A Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), p. 139.

361 C. S. Lewis, in the Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (London: Fontana Lions, 1980), p. 75.

362 Self-existence (aseity) is existence that is self-caused, derived from self, and having no other source.

363 Andrée Seu, " Magoo and me," World Magazine blog, 2010-08-31; http://online.worldmag.com/2010/08/31/magoo-and-me/

364 http://www.covenanter.org/Westminster/solemnleague.htm

365 “Of the Civil Magistrate,” Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 23, para. 3.

366 See: “Appendix H – The Law of God, the Standard for National Laws” in: James R. Hughes, Nehemiah the Church Builder: Instructor’s Guide, 2006; http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/Publications_JRHughes.htm

367 See: “Appendix F – Relationship Between Church and State (Considerations)”, “Appendix E – The Role of the Civil Magistrate with Respect to the Church (Considerations)”, and “Appendix G – The God-Ordained Role for Government” in: James R. Hughes, Nehemiah the Church Builder: Instructor’s Guide, 2006; http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/Publications_JRHughes.htm

368 Edward I expelled Jews from England in 1290.

369 Calvin, Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Daniel; http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom24.xii.xxvi.html

370 Benajamin Davidson gives this meaning, although it is not given in Brown, Driver, & Briggs or Holladay.

371 As an example, Judges 8.29, 30 (compare 7.1; 8.35) translates the Hebrew ‘and’ as ‘now’.

372 Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon of the OT, Logos Research Systems.

373 Randy Alcorn, If God Is Good . . . Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2009), pp. 158-159.

374 Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel, II.38.4, quoted in: W. Brian Shelton, Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus – An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Paternoster, 2008) p. 101.

375 For example, in: Andre Lacocque, “Allusions to Creation in Daniel,” in J. J. Collins and P.W. Flint, eds. The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (Leiden: Brill, 2001), pp. 114-131.

376 Insert “mary annunciation” into any Web browser search engine and select ‘images’, to see examples.

377 Consider for example: Henry Tanner’s Mary listening to Gabriel

378 W. Brian Shelton, Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus – An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Paternoster, 2008) p. 5.

379 W. Brian Shelton, Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus – An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Paternoster, 2008) p. 21.

380 W. Brian Shelton, Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus – An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Paternoster, 2008) p. 111.

381 Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel, IV.23.5, quoted in: W. Brian Shelton, Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus – An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Paternoster, 2008) p. 140.

382 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate

383 Calvin, Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Daniel; http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom25.toc.html

384 Richard D. Patterson, “The Key Role of Daniel 7,” Grace Theological Journal, 12.2 (1991) 245-261.

385 Isaac Newton, Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John (London: Darby and Brown, 1733); http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16878/16878-h/16878-h.htm

386 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars; http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/TwelveCaesars/00000010.htm

387 Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel – A Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), pp. 149-150.

388 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%27s_Vision_of_Chapter_7

389 Kenneth Gentry, The Beast of Revelation (Tyler, Tx, Institute for Christian Economics, 1989), pp. 106-110.

390 Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel – A Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), pp. 147.

391 Augustus was a grand-nephew of Julius Ceasar; Tiberius an adopted son of Augustus; etc. Vespasian was followed by his sons Titus and then Domitian.

392 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%27s_Vision_of_Chapter_7

393 G. K. Beale, “The Influence of Danil Upon the Structure and Theology of John’s Apocalypse,” JETS 27/4 (December 1984), 413-423.

394 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/otp/dmf/enoch/; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_man

395 http://www.biblewiki.be/wiki/4_Ezra_Chapter_13

396 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_man

397 Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins, King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008) as reported in the review of the Collins’ book; http://markuscromhout.wordpress.com/

398 E.J. Young, "Daniel’s Vision of the Son of Man," Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research, 1958; http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/daniel_young.pdf

399 Michael B. Shepherd, “Daniel 7:13 and the New Testament Son of Man”, Westminster Theological Journal, 68, Spring 2006, pp. 99-111.

400 Christopher J. Wright, The Mission of God—Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (IVP, Downers Grove, IL, 2006), p. 310.