VOICES FROM BABYLON; OR, THE RECORDS OF DANIEL THE PROPHET
BY JOSEPH A. SEISS, D.D., PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, PHILADA
AUTHOR OF “A MIRACLE IN STONE,” “LAST TIMES,” “LECTURES ON THE GOSPELS,” ETC.
“With the ancient is wisdom.”—JOB 12:12
PORTER & COATES, PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1879, by PORTER & COATES.
EXPLANATION - The criterion used for this list to assess the best commentaries on the Book of Daniel is to determine which of the books interpret the Scripture literally. Daniel is a book of prophecy and failure to interpret the prophetic chapters 2 and 7-12 literally will result in inaccurate interpretation. The following resources are not selected because they are dispensational, although this approach tends to be more literal than other systematic approaches.
Leopold Cohn (pictured above) was born into an Orthodox Jewish community in Berezna, a small town in eastern Hungary in 1862. At age 18 he graduated with high marks from the Talmudic academy and became a rabbi. One of his rituals was to daily repeat the 12th article of the Jewish creed:
Integrity (from "integer" = the whole of anything, a whole number not a fraction - think "whole character" not a fraction of one!) speaks of the unimpaired state of one's mind and heart, of moral soundness and purity, of incorruptness, of uprightness, of honesty. Just as we would talk about a whole number, so also we can talk about a whole person who is undivided. A person of integrity is living rightly, not divided, nor being a different person in different circumstances. A person of integrity is the same person in private that he or she is in public.
Source: Chart by Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice - click to enlarge - Millenium on Right Side
