{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3832","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"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>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: He signifies here the priestly order, which he compares with the host of heaven. \"It threw down to the earth some of the host and some of the stars and trampled on them.\" Here he prophesies about the sons of Semona and the allies killed by Antiochus.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:10</i></p><p><b>Ishodad of Merv</b>: \"The host of heaven\" and \"the stars and princes of the host\": he recalls in this way Onias and Eleazar and those of the house of the Maccabees. He calls them \"stars\" because of the brightness and beauty of the fear of God, by alluding to the words \"I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:10-11</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Most of the people by transgressing God's law quickly fell away from heavenly things, and they were trampled down by this tyrant to their own destruction. He referred to them as stars on account of the fame and splendor of their piety, hinting also at the promise to Abraham, \"I shall make your offspring like the stars of heaven.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"21447426bc991d2486cd060543d76a4cc4e5af6e721515a6c72bffee537d9333","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3832,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5c5267b651106bc0bd8908cfb215cc17b89677c29b6ce326cc1ed16ed4e10fd0","translator":null,"work":null}