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<p> See [[Bel | == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> HISTORY OF, an apocryphal and uncanonical book of Scripture. (See [[Apocrypha]]). It was always rejected by the [[Jewish]] Church, and is extant neither in the [[Hebrew]] nor the [[Chaldee]] language. [[Jerome]] gives it no better title than that of "the fable" of [[Bel]] and the Dragon; nor has it obtained more credit with posterity, except with the divines of the [[Council]] of Trent, who determined that it should form part of the canonical Scriptures. The design of this fiction is to render idolatry ridiculous, and to exalt the true God; but the author has destroyed the illusion of his fiction by transporting to [[Babylon]] the worship of animals, which was never practiced in that country. This book forms the fourteenth chapter of Daniel in the [[Latin]] Vulgate; in the [[Greek]] it was called the prophecy of Habakkuk, the son of Jesus, of the tribe of Levi; but this is evidently erroneous, for that prophet lived before the time of Nebuchadnezzar, and the events pretended to have taken place in this fable are assigned to the time of Cyrus. There are two Greek texts of this fragment; that of the Septuagint, ‘ and that found in Theodotion's Greek version of Daniel. The former is the most ancient, and has been translated into Syriac. The Latin and [[Arabic]] versions, together with another [[Syriac]] translation, have been made from the text of Theodotion. — Davidson, in Horne's Introd. new ed. 1:639. (See Daniel (Apocryphal Additions To).) </p> | ||
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