{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3593","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Irenaeus</b>: They maintain that Daniel also set forth the same thing when he begged of the angels explanations of the parables, as being himself ignorant of them. But the angel, hiding from him the great mystery of Bythus, said unto him, \"Go thy way quickly, Daniel, for these sayings are closed up until those who have understanding do understand them, and those who are white be made white.\" Moreover, they vaunt themselves as being the white and the men of good understanding.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book I</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"And I heard, and understood not. And I said, 'O my lord, what shall happen after these things?' And he said, 'Go, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. Many shall be chosen and made white and shall be tried as fire; and the wicked shall deal wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.'\" The prophet wished to comprehend what he had seen, or rather, what he had heard, and he desired to understand the reality of the things to come. For he had heard of the various wars of kings, and of battles between them, and a detailed narrative of events; but he had not heard the names of the individual persons involved. And if the prophet himself heard and did not understand, what will be the case with those men who presumptuously expound a book which has been sealed, and that too unto the time of the end, a book which is shrouded with many obscurities? But he comments that when the end comes, the ungodly will lack comprehension, whereas those who are learned in the teaching of God will be able to understand. \"For wisdom will not enter the perverted soul, nor can it impart itself to a body which is subject to sins.\"<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6737159568ad11e96b874fe3b80870d7f16351c8e59e548d7500fbbdc57e1840","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3593,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"420d738a3ed57f89aa4cf4ddf0c54c1a62fa6d4714e3e0d575596342f0490230","translator":null,"work":null}