{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3754","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 11. \"'There is a man in thy kingdom who possesses within him the spirit of the holy gods.'\" All the authorities except Symmachus, who adheres to the Chaldee original, render: \"the spirit of God.\"</p><p>\"'...and in the days of thy father, wisdom, and knowledge were found in him...'\" She calls Nebuchadnezzar his father, according to the custom of the Scriptures, even though, as we remarked before, he was actually his great-grandfather. But Daniel's godly manner of life even amongst the barbarians is worthy of our imitation, for the very grandmother or mother of the king extolled him with such words of praise because of the greatness of his virtues.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER FIVE</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Now, by \"alertness\" she referred to vigilance of soul, and by \"understanding\" to a grasp of hidden things and an insight into what escaped many. \"Your father King Nebuchadnezzar,\" she went on, \"made him chief of magicians, soothsayers, astrologers, and fortune tellers,\" adding the reason, \"because an extraordinary spirit was in him,\" that is, he has the surpassing grace of the Spirit.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 5:11</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"de97bde3a8af75b2baeb1b30362f47aee8dc1b6d4d4d5d072e6b19f836672184","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3754,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1921e50bb22a77972cf7344452cb70797b1f94e09e5e978aa7a76ac134293e94","translator":null,"work":null}