by Justin Marple | Oct 1, 2019 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
This coming Sunday at Cleveland Drive Presbyterian Church I will be preaching on the familiar story of the three friends in the fiery furnace in Daniel 3. Those three friends are commonly known by their Babylonian names because of this passage; the Babylonian names...
by Justin Marple | Jan 21, 2015 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
I found a handout that I had made in 2006 detailing the structure of the Book of Daniel as having an introductory chapter followed by a double chiasm. After studying Daniel yet again over the last couple years this outline is the best there is as far as I am...
by Justin Marple | Jan 13, 2015 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
I offer this article as a starting point for understanding Daniel 8 and 9. These chapters are apocalyptic visions and need to be interpreted as such. When I say that we could add these things to our table I am referencing the table available in the previous article...
by Justin Marple | Nov 17, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
When we looked at Daniel 2 for these commentary posts I did not spend any time unpacking the content of the vision and its interpretation because I wanted to save that discussion for our exploration of the similar vision of Daniel 7. You can find here a pdf of some...
by Justin Marple | Nov 17, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
Continuing in the book of Daniel we come next to Daniel 5 and then Daniel 6. Daniel 5 is the judgment of Belshazzar and Daniel 6 is the lions’ den story. Both of these are wisdom stories and even court narratives. Both of these have had parallel chapters that...
by Justin Marple | Nov 4, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
The commentary below assumes that you will supplement these observations with what you hear in the sermons on Daniel 3 and Daniel 4 elsewhere on this site (2013 sermons) and that you have in front of you the pdf handout available as a link on the first Daniel...
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