{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3532","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: What would you do then? That he who came for our salvation should become a minister of destruction because people could not bear him? Or that he should suit his grace to our measure? Daniel could not bear the vision of an angel, and were you capable of the sight of the Lord of angels? Gabriel appeared, and Daniel fell down; and of what nature or in what guise was he that appeared? His countenance was like lightning, not like the sun, \"and his eyes as lamps of fire,\" not as a furnace of fire. \"And the voice of his words [was] as the voice of a multitude,\" not as the voice of twelve legions of angels; nevertheless the prophet fell down.… If an angel appearing took away the prophet's strength, would the appearance of God have allowed him to breathe?… So then after trial had shown our weakness, the Lord assumed that which people required: for since people required to hear from one of like countenance, the Savior took on him the nature of like affections, that people might be the more easily instructed.<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 12:14</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: \"And, I, Daniel alone saw the vision.\" [Daniel 10:7] For to the saints and to those who fear him, to these only he reveals himself. For if one now expects this also to be conducted in the church, he has not the fear of God, and the assembly of the saints helps him in nothing, having not acquired the power of the Spirit in himself. For also at that time, there were many who were standing with Daniel, but they did not see the vision for they were not worthy, but great astonishment fell upon them and they fled in fear. [Daniel 10:7]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.38.1-3</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 7. \"And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me saw it not; but an exceeding great terror fell upon them, and they fled away and hid themselves.\" The Apostle Paul had a similar experience in the Book of Acts, in that while the others could see nothing, he alone beheld the vision (Acts 22:6-9).<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And thou must also understand from the testimony of the Prophets, that they too, whenever they were held worthy to receive a vision of God or of the angels, led a life of much fasting, and then were they worthy to receive the vision of revelations, even as it is written of that beloved man Daniel, that after his fast of three weeks he was wholly worthy of the sight of angels. And if for that man who was looking for the advent of an angel all this fasting was necessary, and he was only then worthy to receive spiritual revelations, how much more for thee who awaitest the spiritual sight of Christ, and hopest to receive within thy soul the perception which is above nature, are much fasting, and abstinence, and the subduing of the body necessary, if thou wouldst arrive at things which are greater than those of Daniel?<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: But perhaps someone would say, \"Why then did they flee, if they did not see the vision?\" Most likely this fact is what filled them all the more with dread, for since they saw no one and yet heard a great voice, they likely all ran away in fright. Then he calls their astonishment not only cowardice but also the inability to see. These events resemble the things that happened to Paul on the road near Damascus. There he too saw a light that flashed around him. His companions saw nothing but only heard a voice. And then his companions likewise fled from the divine prophet when they heard only the voice, while he remained there alone.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 10:7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c0d6aa5bdac4982965410fce42ffabba398f52ad90d78013c7ee34e8678de494","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3532,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"cfc4b35633b257dbc0d7c3f119a63ee79e38b8da477f8ccb2b54180dba59d17a","translator":null,"work":null}