{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3864","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: \"So consider the word, which I will speak,\" that is, investigate and weigh carefully the meaning and the strength of the proposed vision; and in those things that I am about to tell you about it, contemplate a sort of expressed image of the future events.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 9:23</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 23. \"'From the very beginning of thy prayers the word went forth and I myself have come to show it to thee, because thou art a man of desires.'\" That is, at the time when thou didst begin to ask God, thou didst straightway obtain His mercy, and His decision was put forth. I have therefore been sent to explain to thee the things of which thou art ignorant, inasmuch as thou art a man of desires, that is to say a lovable man, worthy of God's love - even as Solomon was called Idida (var: Jedida) or \"man of desires.\" (Song of Solomon 5:16) I have been sent because thou art worthy, in recompense for thine affection for God, to be told the secret counsels of God and to have a knowledge of things to come.</p><p>\"'Thou therefore pay heed to the word and understand the vision.'\" Thus Daniel is told, \"Pay diligent heed, in order that thou mayest hear and understand what thou seest.\" We too should do this, for our eyes have been blinded by the shadows of ignorance and the darkness of sins.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: The Lord … sent me to convey the future to you. For your part, give precise attention to what is said; what will be said is too profound for a human being (the meaning of \"understand what is in the vision\"), that is, what will be said in riddles, and requires of you precise attention for grasping it. Now, riddles occur when divine realities are spoken and written, the purpose being to prevent what is revealed to the holy ones becoming clear to everyone; after all, familiarity breeds contempt.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 9:22-23</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"365d0e82cf8ff2edb9201b66992f394ff0db9f897cd2ddf051c1d4ab4a223ba7","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3864,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2e9e2293c3108654f815544bdac3c04a7fdfc70ab2a7f651d4dad60b6a99f503","translator":null,"work":null}