{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3668","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":25,"verse_to":25},"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 25. \"I have found a man who belongs to the children of the captivity of Judah and who will set forth the explanation to the king.\" He credits his own diligence with what God's grace has bestowed, and he claims that he himself has done the finding, when actually Daniel had applied to him of his own volition that he might be presented to the king. This instance manifests the habitual reaction of messengers, for when they have good news to report, they wish it to appear their own doing. But the man who undertakes the explanation of the dream is certainly going to relate the dream beforehand. And note that Daniel is said to be of the children of Judah, rather than being a priest as the latter part of the story of Bel relates.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TWO</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"03063fc6a1254ee9b6c19e0dc93c46be395ef1f333fb68369932ffd351a3b3b3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3668,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3c0a6eec263e323172d49ffa915ce91dc058ca8989399c39653f07f00ca292f1","translator":null,"work":null}