{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3528","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"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>Ammonius of Alexandria</b>: The prophet teaches us that fasting is a great virtue and so too is affliction with prayer. Through these things sometimes a person is deemed worthy even of visions.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON Daniel 10:3</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: This abstinence Daniel used in order to please God by humiliation, and not for the purpose of producing a sensibility and wisdom for his soul previous to receiving communication by dreams and visions, as if it were not rather to effect such action in an ecstatic state. This \"sobriety\" … will have nothing to do with exciting ecstasy but will rather serve to recommend its being wrought by God.<br/><i>— ON THE SOUL 48</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Daniel paid no attention to his body in these days either by anointing the outside or [by taking] food within. Quite well and usefully he has added the descriptor desirable not to meat but to bread. For bread is the most necessary food of all; the wealthy enjoy meat, but the poor as well as the rich enjoy bread. Therefore, he called it \"the desirable bread,\" on the grounds that is a most common food and most desired of all food.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 10:2-3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9cbc84b0237916d223c48a533e3f89d54eb888bc6dcb9a4984ad21739581ea8f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3528,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"04675e78451711a2c7d6b4f8df9f322bb6dc099e11177492267902b93a4bba3a","translator":null,"work":null}