If this identification be correct the date must be subsequent to 597
B.C., the year of Jehoiachin's captivity; and probably not long after,
since Daniel, who was taken to Babylon in or soon after the third year
of Jehoiakim's reign in 603-4,[50] is represented as being still
???±?????¬???????? ???µ?‰?„??????? in v. 45. This phrase is somewhat tautologically
rendered by A.V. as a 'young youth,' an instance which might be cited in
support of the view that the English of the apocryphal was less
excellent than that of the canonical books[51]; but, strange to say, the
awkward expression is continued in R.V.
Without necessarily implying it, v. 2 might easily be taken to convey
the impression that Jehoiachin married in Babylon. Thus Hippolytus
asserts, ????‰?±???µ??¶?? ???¬???????????‚ ???µ???????µ?????‚ ????? ?’?±???…?»??¶???? ?»?±?????¬???µ?? ?„????? ???‰???¬?????±??
?µ??°?‚ ???…???±??–???± (Migne, _Patr. gr._ X. 689). And, on 'the same year' of v.
5, Reuss gives the interrogative note, "Im Jahre der Verheiratung des
Joakim?"
If Susanna's husband really be Jehoiachin, he is the Jechonias who finds
a place in the genealogy of Christ, St.
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