Ancient Of Days

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ANCIENT OF DAYS occurs 3 times in Daniel (Dan_7:9; Dan_7:13; Dan_7:22) as a title of God in His capacity as Judge of the world. In the Vision of the Great Assizes He is depicted as a very old and majestic figure, with white hair and white raimeot, seated on a fiery throne, and having the books of the records of man opened before Him. The picture is no doubt suggested by the contrast between the Eternal God (Psa_55:19) and the new-fangled deities which were from time to time introduced (Jdg_5:8, Deu_32:17), rather than, as Hippolytus (quoted by Behrmann, Das Buch Daniel, p. 46) suggests, by the idea of God as making the ages old without turning old Himself. In the troublous times which are represented by the Book of Daniel, it was at once a comfort and a warning to remember that above the fleeting phases of life there sat One who remained eternally the same (Psa_90:1-3; Psa_102:24-27). At the same time it is worth remembering that the phrase in itself has no mystical significance, but, by an idiom common in Hebrew as in other languages, is merely a paraphrase for ?an old man.?
H. C. O. Lanchester.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

Dan_7:9; Dan_7:13; Dan_7:22. The everlasting Jehovah, as contrasted with the ephemeral transitoriness of the four successive world powers, stable as they seemed for a time.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

(עתּיק יומין, ‛attı̄ḳ yōmı̄n, = Aramaic): On עתּיק, ‛attı̄ḳ, see ANCIENT (4). The expression is used in reference to God in Dan (Job_7:9, Job_7:13, 22) and is not intended to suggest the existence of God from eternity. It was the venerable appearance of old age that was uppermost in the writer's mind. ?What Daniel sees is not the eternal God Himself, but an aged man, in whose dignified and impressive form God reveals Himself (compare Eze_1:26)? (Keil).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Ancient of Days
(Chald. עִתִּיק יוֹמִין, Sept. παλαιὸς ἡμιρῶν, Vulg. antiquus dierum), an expression applied to Jehovah thrice in a vision of Daniel (ch. 7, 9, 13, 22), apparently much in the same sense as Eternal. SEE JEHOVAH. The expression, viewed by itself, is somewhat peculiar; but it is doubtless employed by way of contrast to the successive monarchies which appeared one after another rising before the eye of the prophet. These all proved to be ephemeral existences, partaking of the corruption and evanescence of earth; and so, when the supreme Lord and Governor of all appeared to pronounce their doom, and set up his own everlasting kingdom, He is not unnaturally symbolized as the Ancient of Days — one who was not like those new formations, the offspring of a particular time, but who had all time, in a manner, in his possession — one whose days were past reckoning. SEE DANIEL (BOOK OF).



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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