{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3526","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"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>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: In this way, after speaking these things, the prophet describes to us again another vision. For the blessed Daniel meditated on no other vision, lest he not be accurately taught all the things to come and he not teach and reveal these things to us again. Indeed he says, \"In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a word was revealed to Daniel, who was called the name Baltasar, and the word was true and great power and understanding was given to him in the vision. 'In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days, I did not eat desirable bread and meat and wine did not enter my mouth and I did not anoint myself with oil for three full weeks of days. On the twenty and fourth day of the first month.'\" [Daniel 10:1-4]</p><p>\"I was humbled,\" he says, \"twenty one days praying to the living God requesting from him the revealing of mysteries.\" And then, after the Father heard, he sent his Word, thus pointing out what is about to happen through him and then that it would happen along the Great River. For the event is necessary to have happened there where the Son was demonstrated, where also he was about to forgive sins.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.36.1-4</i></p><p><b>Ishodad of Merv</b>: It is evident that Daniel lived up to the third year [of Cyrus] and beyond, even though at the beginning of the book we read \"until the first year of the king Cyrus.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 10:1</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 1. \"In the third year of Cyrus, King of the Persians, a word was revealed unto Daniel, who was surnamed Belteshazzar, and it was a true word and great strength. For there is need of understanding in a vision.\" And how is it that we read at the end of the first vision, \"And Daniel lived until the first year of Cyrus the King\"? Well then, we understand that he enjoyed his former high position among the Chaldeans and was clothed in purple and fine linen right up until the first year of King Cyrus, when Cyrus overthrew the Chaldeans, and afterwards Daniel commenced service under Darius, the son of Ahasuerus of the Median line, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans. Or else, indeed, that Darius had already died in whose first year Daniel had learned of the mystery of the seventy weeks, and he is now relating that he beheld these things in the third year of King Cyrus. \"And it was a true word and great strength\" refers either to the strength of the God who was going to perform these things or to the strength of the prophet who would comprehend them.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: To some it seems that Daniel is mistaken about the time and the one writing the book from the beginning puts \"in the third year\" instead of \"in the first year.\" And the proof of this is that the blessed Daniel says right after the beginning of the prophecy, \"And Daniel continued until year one of King Cyrus.\" For if the prophet had lived only up until the first year of Cyrus' reign, the critic says, how could he have seen the revelation in the third year? Now I think that the former does not indicate the stated time nor does \"the first year of Cyrus' reign\" mark the end of blessed Daniel's life. For he does not say \"until the first year of Cyrus the king\" but \"for year one.\" As it appears to me, he intends to instruct those encountering the prophetic book that he survived until Cyrus, king of the Persians, who set free those Jewish captives.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 10:1</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Quite suitably he calls it \"a word\" and \"a vision.\" He saw holy angels; he also heard them conversing and from them learned accurately the things that would happen. And he says that the word was \"true\" so that all might receive the things about to be spoken without any doubts.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 10:1</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1829ca17d9ccfc41cf1c9ee615e3c274c0b8ab51df8efe818db0d87e55f23b51","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3526,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a3cf082e313b8a950b44e48874b43036f731f1912fbd8f0eda0de1a328dae0e0","translator":null,"work":null}