Обозрение книги пророка Даниила

Daniel and his friends are chosen, entrusted to the chief of the eunuchs, fed on seeds and, presented to the king, turn out to be the wisest of all. Nebuchadnezzar sees a dream and orders the death of the wise men who could not open and interpret it. God saved Daniel and his comrades, who were in danger, by revealing to Daniel himself the secret of the dream. Brought before the king, Daniel relates the dream and explains it. The stone cut off without hands is Christ; and the fact that he is cut off without the help of hands means that Christ was born of a Virgin without a husband. Nebuchadnezzar, having erected an image, commands everyone to worship it, and throws the three youths who did not worship into the oven. When the people who were at the stove were killed, and the youths glorified God, the king, having called them and seeing them unharmed, was surprised at the power of God, honored the youths with power over the Jews and gave the command to execute anyone who would blaspheme God. Nebuchadnezzar sees a dream, and when the wise men of Babylon again could not interpret it, Daniel explains it and advises the king to atone for his iniquities with alms. After a little time, the dream came true, and Nebuchadnezzar glorified God. When, by order of King Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, the sacred vessels were brought, and those who feasted drank from them, a hand appeared and inscribed letters on the wall that the wise men of Babylon could not read; and Daniel read and explained, and for this they clothed him in purple, put a gold chain on him and proclaimed him the third ruler in the kingdom. Darius the Mede, having accepted the kingdom and made Daniel the chief ruler, was forced by the rulers and satraps to issue a decree that anyone who within thirty days asks anything from any other person or from God, and not from the king, will be thrown into a ditch filled with lions. When this happened, they, noticing that Daniel was praying to God, accused him and forced the king to throw him into the ditch. The king threw him there, but when he came and found him unharmed, he led him out of the ditch, and destroyed those who had thrown him in, along with their wives, giving them to the lions. At the same time, he issued a decree that everyone should fear God. Daniel sees a vision of beasts, under the image of a lioness - the Assyrian kingdom, under the image of a bear - the Median and Persian, under the image of a lynx - the Macedonian, under the image of the fourth beast - the Roman. He prophesies about Christ and about the wicked Antiochus, because he is that little horn that supplanted the three former horns. Predicts how Alexander the Great will destroy the kingdom of Persia, meaning by the ram the king of Persia, and by the goat - Alexander the Great. The last vision told in this book, the vision of the Queen of the South, is described, as they say, in the book of Maccabees. Daniel crushes Bel and kills the dragon; again he is thrown into the ditch and remains unharmed, but those responsible for his being thrown into the ditch are themselves thrown into the ditch, and the lions devour them. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: