{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3825","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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 Darius the Persian by saying \"it had two horns,\" as Darius ruled the Medes and the Persians. \"Both horns were long, but one was longer than the other\": this is referred to the Persians, whose power was superior to that of the Medes and rose to a higher level. \"And the longer one came up second\": this is said because the Persians, after the Medes, would have obtained the rule over the world.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:3</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 3. \"And I lifted up my eyes and saw.\" Yet of course one only sees in dreams things which appear as shadowy representations, naturally, and as mere likenesses, rather than our being able to behold the reality of the objects themselves.</p><p>\"And behold, a ram stood in front of the swamp (or: in front of the gate - the word being UBAL in the Hebrew), having lofty horns, one of which was higher than the other and growing yet larger.\" He calls Darius, Cyrus's uncle, a ram. He reigned over the Medes after his father, Astyages. And the one horn which was higher than the other, and growing still larger, signified Cyrus himself, who succeeded his maternal grandfather, Astyages, and reigned over the Medes and Persians along with his uncle, Darius, whom the Greeks called Cyaxeres.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER EIGHT</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He sees the Persian Empire in the form of a ram since it was flush with wealth and had a great abundance of resources.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:3</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He perceived two horns on the ram because Cyrus was the first to reign over it and transmitted the empire only to his sons; when his son Cambyses died, soothsayers held power for a few months, but shortly afterwards Darius son of Hystaspes, who passed the empire on to his offspring and theirs up to the last Darius, whose empire Alexander the Macedonian took over after slaying him. So by the two horns he means two races of kings, seeing both to be tall, but the second taller than the first.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 8:3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"26653f9ebdcac9d8d6d14b227f1da4edf257de36960b57f51f99fb90d842d48a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3825,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"14ecd7f83245a676b5caed503c191daa74908ac2f4169baff2f967bc0bf94078","translator":null,"work":null}