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Old Testament, Daniel (Theodotionis versio)

English for the 5 passages of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.

2.2.1

καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς καλέσαι τοὺς ἐπαοιδοὺς καὶ τοὺς μάγους καὶ τοὺς φαρμακοὺς καὶ τοὺς Χαλδαίους τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ βασιλεῖ τὰ ἐνύπνια αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἦλθαν καὶ ἔστησαν ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέως.

And the king said to call the enchanters and the magicians and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams; and they came and stood before the king.

2.27.1

καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Δανιὴλ ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ λέγει Τὸ μυστήριον ὃ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐρωτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν σοφῶν, μάγων, ἐπαοιδῶν, γαζαρηνῶν ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ βασιλεῖ

And Daniel answered before the king and says: The mystery which the king asks about, it is not for wise men, magicians, enchanters, gazarēnoi [diviners] to tell the king,

Translator's note. γαζαρηνοί transliterates an Aramaic word for diviners or astrologers.

4.10.1

ἐθεώρουν ἐν ὁράματι τῆς νυκτὸς ἐπὶ τῆς κοίτης μου, καὶ ἰδοὺ εἴρ καὶ ἅγιος ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ κατέβη

I was watching in the vision of the night on my bed, and look, an eir [watcher] and a holy one came down from heaven

Translator's note. εἴρ transliterates the Aramaic word for a watcher, an angelic being.

9.21.1

καὶ ἔτι ἐμοῦ λαλοῦντος ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ Γαβριὴλ ὃν ἴδον ἐν τῇ ὁράσει ἐν τῆ ἀρχῇ πετόμενος, καὶ ἥψατό μου ὡσεὶ ὥραν θυσίας ἑσπερινῆς.

And while I was still speaking in prayer, look, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [came] flying, and he touched me at about the hour of the evening sacrifice.

10.5.1–10.6.1

10.5.1

καὶ ἦρα τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου καὶ ἴδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ εἶς ἐνδεδυμένος βαδδείν, καὶ ἡ ὀσφὺς αὐτοῦ περιεζωσμένη ἐν χρυσίῳ Ὠφάζ,

And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and look, one man clothed in baddein [linen], and his waist girded with gold of Uphaz,

10.6.1

καὶ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ θαρσείς, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ ὅρασις ἀστραπῆς, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ λαμπάδες πυρός, καὶ οἱ βραχίονες αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ σκέλη ὡς ὅρασις χαλ κοῦ στίλβοντος, καὶ ἡ φωνὴ τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ ὡς φωνὴ ὄχλου.

and his body like tharseis [a precious stone], and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and legs like the appearance of gleaming bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a crowd.

Translator's note. βαδδείν (the Hebrew word for linen) and θαρσείς (Hebrew tarshish, a precious stone) are left untranslated in the Greek and kept so; Ὠφάζ is given as Uphaz.

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