{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3862","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":21,"verse_to":21},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Let them read Daniel, saying, \"Behold the man Gabriel.\" But why do we delay any longer to stop their mouths by another most clear and most weighty proof, where not an angel in the singular nor men in the plural are spoken of, but simply angels; by whom not any particular word was wrought, but the Law itself is most distinctly declared to be given; which certainly none of the faithful doubts that God gave to Moses for the control of the children of Israel, or yet, that it was given by angels. So Stephen speaks: \"Ye stiff-necked,\" he says, \"and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the Law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.\" What is more evident than this? What more strong than such an authority? The Law, indeed, was given to that people by the disposition of angels; but the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ was by it prepared and pre-announced; and He Himself, as the Word of God, was in some wonderful and unspeakable manner in the angels, by whose disposition the Law itself was given. And hence He said in the Gospel, \"For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.\" Therefore then the Lord was speaking by the angels; and the son of God, who was to be the Mediator of God and men, from the seed of Abraham, was preparing His own advent by the angels, that He might find some by whom He would be received, confessing themselves guilty, whom the Law unfulfilled had made transgressors.<br/><i>— ON THE TRINITY 3:10</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: See how the prophet likened the swiftness of angels to winged flight, on account of the nimbleness and the lightness of the weight of the angels, who are spirits flying quickly to obey what is commanded as Solomon says, \"Do not curse your king in an oath lest a winged bird carries your words to him.\" [Ecclesiastes 10:20]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.30.1</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: From all these passages are revealed to us, not merely the particulars of the apostasy, and [the doings] of him who concentrates in himself every satanic error, but also, that there is one and the same God the Father, who was declared by the prophets, but made manifest by Christ. For if what Daniel prophesied concerning the end has been confirmed by the Lord, when He said, \"When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which has been spoken of by Daniel the prophet\" (and the angel Gabriel gave the interpretation of the visions to Daniel, and he is the archangel of the Creator (Demiurgi), who also proclaimed to Mary the visible coming and the incarnation of Christ), then one and the same God is most manifestly pointed out, who sent the prophets, and made promise of the Son, and called us into His knowledge.<br/><i>— AGAINST HERESIES 5:25.5</i></p><p><b>Isidore of Seville</b>: Gabriel is translated from Hebrew into our tongue as \"might of God.\" Wherever God's power or might is shown, Gabriel is sent. Therefore, also at that time, when the Lord was about to be born and triumph over the world, Gabriel came to Mary and announced him who had humbly agreed to come to defeat the powers of the air.<br/><i>— ETYMOLOGIES 7:5</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 21. \"While I was still speaking in my prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen at the beginning of the vision.\" He calls the previous vision preceding this one the beginning. The effect of his prayer was considerable, and the promise of God was fulfilled which says, \"While thou art yet speaking, lo, I am at hand\" (Isaiah 58:9). And Gabriel appears not as an angel or archangel, but as a man (vir), a term used to indicate the quality of virtue rather than specifying his sex.</p><p>\"...he quickly flew to me and touched me at the time of the evening sacrifice.\" It is stated that he flew, because he had made his appearance as a man. It is said that it was at the time of the evening sacrifice, in order to show that the prophet's prayer had persisted from the morning sacrifice even unto the evening sacrifice, and that God for that reason directed His mercy towards him.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE</i></p><p><b>Julian of Toledo</b>: As is clear to all, Daniel himself gave the name of the very angel in the book of his prophecy, when he learned from the angel those mysteries of the weeks that would take place concerning the birth of Christ.… According to the Gospel, the wonderful name of the very angel was found to have been given again in these times, for the same angel told Zechariah, \"I am Gabriel and I stand before God.\"<br/><i>— ON THE CONFIRMATION OF THE SIXTH AGE 2:1</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: This was the evening fast, which offers a richer prayer to God, since it takes place with fasting during the evening.<br/><i>— ON FASTING 10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2fd3767740e9abeba4cd4cd3175e8618fa2e66a301f2944c58d10d61d983dd35","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3862,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b1a13cb5d293115a383338daa97c492d1f073e46604998f0afa7562b05259181","translator":null,"work":null}