Ammonius of Alexandria : [The Hebrew word] baddim means an intricately woven cloak, just as believers, whom Christ wears as a robe, are eminent in the weave of virtues. God puts on the faithful and girds them with the precious and pure gospel so that they might believe in the resurrection. For Orphaz means "pure." — FRAGMENTS ON Daniel 10:5 Hippolytus of Rome : "And I lifted," he says, "my eyes and I saw, and behold, one man clothed in linen." And so in the first vision he says, "Behold, the angel Gabriel came flying," [Daniel 9:21] Here however he does not speak in this way, but he sees the Lord himself, not yet perfectly man, but appearing in the shape of a man just as he says, "And behold, one man clothed in linen." [Daniel 10:5] For Christ being clothed with many cloaks of mystery, points out the manifold calling of gifts. Because the priestly cloak was equipped from different gifts in order to indicate that many nations await the advent of Christ, so that with many gifts we may be able to be equipped. "And his loins were girt in the gold of Ophaz." [Daniel 10:5] Ophaz from the Hebrew indicates, having been translated into Greek, "pure gold." And so purity was around his loins like his belt. For the Word is about to bear all of us around his own body with his own love, as a strong belt. For his own body was itself perfect and we are its members, and have been united in a perfect body and are embraced by his word. — Commentary on Daniel 4.36.5-37.2 Jerome : Verse 5. "And I lifted my eyes and saw." We must lift up our eyes if we are to be able to discern a mystical vision. "And behold, a person clothed in linen." Instead of "linen," as Aquila rendered it, Theodotion simply puts baddim, whereas the Septuagint renders it as byssus, and Symmachus as exaireta (choice vestments), that is, "distinguished clothing" (praecipua). And instead of what we have rendered as, "Behold, a man," on the basis of the Hebrew text, Symmachus puts, "One like unto a man," inasmuch as he was not actually a man but only had the appearance of one. "And his loins were girt about with pure gold." The Hebrew term for this is 'wpz or ophaz, a word which Aquila has rendered in this fashion: "And his loins were girt about with the color of ophax". — St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN