{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3594","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: Daniel said there were 2, days from the time that the abomination of Nero stood in the holy city, till its destruction.… [This] makes six years and four months, during the half of which Nero held sway, and it was half a week; and for a half, Vespasian with Otho, Galba and Vitellius reigned.… After the 1, days … war ceased.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 1</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: He signifies the times of Antiochus, when the impious king will take away the regular burnt offering, and will set up the abomination that desolates and will try to overturn the people of God and to corrupt his religion. Therefore 1, days will fill that entire space of time, when the Jews are afflicted by the harshest calamities, and the temple is violated and inside the secret recesses blasphemous and impious people dare raise an altar to their gods.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 12:11</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: This one will kill the two witnesses and precursors of Christ who herald his glorious advent from heaven, as he says through the prophet, \"And I will give power to my two witnesses and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days wearing sack cloth.\" [Revelation 11:3] Just as also he spoke to Daniel, \"And he shall establish a covenant with many for one week and it will be that in the half of the week he shall take away my sacrifice and drink offering,\" [Daniel 9:27] so that the one week may be shown as divided into two, after the two witnesses will have preached for three and a half years, the Antichrist will wage war against the saints the remainder of the week and will desolate all the world so that what was spoken may be fulfilled, \"And they will give the abomination of desolation one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who endures to Christ and reaches the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days!\" [Daniel 12:11-12]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.50.1-2</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: And so Daniel has foretold two abominations, one of destruction, one of desolation. What is the one of destruction but what was set up there in the time of Antiochus? And what was the one of desolation but the universal abomination when the Antichrist is near? As Daniel says, \"And he himself shall stand for the destruction of many and he shall divide the earth in gifts and he shall cast an embankment against her and the land of Egypt shall not be saved, and these shall be saved from his hand, Edom and Moab and the chief of the sons of Ammon.\" [Daniel 11:41] For these are partners with him on account of kinship who also first proclaimed him king. For Edom is the sons of Esau who dwell at Mount Seir. But Moab and Ammon are the sons of Lot, who were begotten from his two daughters. As also Isaiah says, \"And they shall be dispersed in ships of foreigners, carrying them together to the sea and those from the East and the West and from the North shall give glory, but the sons of Ammon first shall obey.\" [Isaiah 11:14]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.53.1-3</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: This one being proclaimed by them as king and being glorified by them and becoming the abomination of desolation to the world, he shall rule one thousand two hundred ninety days. As Daniel also says, \"And they will give the abomination of desolation one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who endures and reaches the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.\" [Daniel 12:11-12] For when the abomination is present and wages war against the saints, whenever his days have passed, and it draws near to the forty-five other days which approach the fiftieth day, it reaches to the kingdom of heavens. For the Antichrist comes to the portion on the fiftieth day as about to inherit the kingdom together with Christ. And on account of this Isaiah says, \"Let the impious be killed, so that he may not see the glory of the Lord.\" [Isaiah 26:10] And Paul says to the Thessalonians, \"Whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall abolish him with the manifestation of his advent,\" [2 Thessalonians 2:8] but the saints are destined to inherit the kingdom with Christ.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.54.1-5</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 11. \"And from the time that the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.\" Porphyry asserts that these one thousand two hundred and ninety days were fulfilled in the desolation of the Temple in the time of Antiochus, and yet both Josephus and the Book of Maccabees, as we have said before, record that it lasted for only three years. From this circumstance it is apparent that the three and a half years are spoken of in connection with the time of the Antichrist, for he is going to persecute the saints for three and a half years, or one thousand two hundred and ninety days, and then he shall meet his fall on the famous, holy mountain. And so from the time of the removal of the endelekhismos, which we have translated as \"continual sacrifice,\" i.e., the time when the Antichrist shall obtain possession of the world (variant: the city) and forbid the worship of God, unto the day of his death the three and a half years, or one thousand two hundred and ninety days, shall be fulfilled.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TWELVE</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Next, in predicting the length of time these evils would last, Daniel's angel said, \"From the time of the changing of the continuity.\" The daily sacrifice was called the continuity, for what is continuous is frequent and unceasing. And among the Jews it was customary to offer sacrifice to God in the evening and about dawn each day; this is why they called that daily sacrifice a continuity. But when Antiochus came, he completely did away with this practice.<br/><i>— DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 5:8.3-4</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He calls the antichrist \"the abomination of desolation.\" He calls the order of the church's worship, which would be disrupted and made to cease by the madness and raving of the antichrist.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 12:11</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"21cd52b365e0af6a828ebf27cd2260045472dbbf07b8d320636f4fe44f6e7259","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3594,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3e6bceaf7dbaa1e26d7f4ddc9b9a6657a9b8ad70380d347221c379154e303fcb","translator":null,"work":null}