{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3847","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":27,"verse_to":27},"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 27. \"And I, Daniel, languished and was sick for some days. And when I rose from my bed, I performed the king's tasks.\" This is the same thing as we read in Genesis about Abraham, for after he had heard the Lord speaking to him, he averred that he was but dust and ashes (Genesis 18:27). And so Daniel states that he languished as a reaction to the horror of the vision, and suffered illness. And after he had risen from his sick-bed, he says he performed the tasks assigned to him by the king, rendering to all men all that was due them and bearing in mind the gospel principle: \"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's\" (Luke 20:25).</p><p>\"And I was amazed at the vision, and there was no one who could interpret it.\" If there was no one who could interpret it, how was it that the angel interpreted it in the previous passage? What he means is that he had heard mention of kings and did not know what their names were; he learned of things to come, but he was tossed about with uncertainty as to what time they would come to pass. And so he did the only thing he could do: he marveled at the vision, and resigned everything to God's omniscience.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER EIGHT</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: On learning the troubles that would overtake the people in due course, I became so unwell as to fall a victim to illness. Yet despite being thus indisposed, I managed the work entrusted to me by the king, with no one aware of the cause of the sickness. He was in the habit of saying along with blessed Paul, \"Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?\" and \"Weeping with those who weep, rejoicing with those who rejoice,\" and \"If one limb suffers, all the limbs suffer together.\" This man felt the same way, and he had this affection for his fellow slaves; and on learning of the calamities to overtake his fellow slaves many generations later, he kept weeping and wailing. He had a precise knowledge that he personally would not experience those things but would instead be freed from the present life before long.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:27</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"833cf50239bed0611af6534fb1ffd605e4c7a64bf5afbe0a93b6e7d4f8c11615","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3847,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4f825dd491423802ee8b02e64ae80b0cb1ce99e7c962b4261c60eb1a9741c4d6","translator":null,"work":null}