{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3529","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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 4. \"And in the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was beside the great river which is the Tigris.\" Ezekiel also had seen a great vision beside a river, the Chebar (Ezekiel 1:1). And it was by the stream of the Jordan that the heavens were opened to the gaze of our Lord and Savior and also to John the Baptist (Matthew 3:1-17). Therefore those critics should leave off their foolish objections who raise questions about the presence of shadows and symbols in a matter of historical truth and attempt to destroy the truth itself by imagining that they should employ allegorical methods to destroy the historicity of rivers and trees and of Paradise.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: On the fourteenth day of the first month at evening the divine law commanded them to celebrate the Passover, but blessed Daniel maintained his fast until the twenty-fourth day.… Daniel did not celebrate the Passover in obedience to the law, which expressly commands Israel to celebrate the three feast days in the place which the Lord God chose. Those Jews who dared to celebrate these festivals in a foreign land would have been transgressing this command.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 10:4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"549cd485fbda4d6796f5930ebe070eb8db754ae7e6de68dc84b749ec235b6366","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3529,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"09f2d27b8b00792419e7817638dd28e2ba7b0d707a7f4c54bc409407a7fc33a0","translator":null,"work":null}