T._, Brunswick, 1894, VII. 166). It has been suggested
(J.H. Blunt _in loc._) that Ezekiel, who was both priest and prophet,
had just finished his utterances, while Daniel, if he had commenced his,
would, out of modesty, not reckon himself. The same commentator also
attempts, still less successfully, to overcome the difficulty of "no
prince." Probably, however, this merely means that no monarch was
actually reigning, and that Jewish rulers were themselves ruled and
their authority superseded, not that no member of the royal house or of
the ruling classes was in existence. And this seems to fit in better
with an early period of the Captivity than with a later age, when Simon
Maccabeus is said to have had the title ? ???©?????™?? on his coins: and
Mattathias is called ??„???‡?‰?? in I Macc. ii. 17. Gesenius says in his
_Thesaurus_ under ? ?©?™?? on the authority of F.P. Bayer (_de numis
hebraeosamaritanis_, p. 171, append, p. xv.), that Simon's coins had the
inscription ?©???¦?•?? ? ?©?™?? ?™?©??????[26]; but it is now doubted whether the
coins formerly attributed to Simon are really of his time.
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