Daniel

In chapter three, Hawthorne writes of Daniel’s reputation as an interpreter of dreams, as seen in DANIEL 2:1-49 and DANIEL 4:1-37, when Chillingsworth asks a stranger, “Who is the father of the babe held in Mistress Pryne’s arms on the scaffold?” The man replies, “Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting.”