Ephrem the Syrian

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

764 passages across 40 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Daniel

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  1. Daniel 10:12
    “From the first day,” that is, from that day when you began to fast, being inflamed by the desire to learn those things that you asked, so that you persevered in praying and supplicating before your God. “Your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words”: your prayers led me, as well, to prepare a plan for the salvation of your people according to your vows.

    COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 10:12

  2. Daniel 10:21
    The angel reported these events, so that Daniel might know that there were not many among the Jews who asked God for their return, nor did the angels approve Daniel’s vow, nor was everything you requested, Daniel, accepted by the angels, in order that the freedom of human will not be restricted.

    COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 10:21

  3. Daniel 11:4
    Understand this as referring to Alexander, who was certain that his last day was not close and therefore did not have children, who could be the heirs of his reign, and left it to his friends after dividing it into four parts.

    COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 11:3

  4. Daniel 11:41-43
    Antiochus will assail Judea, will occupy Jerusalem, will rush into the secret places of the sanctuary, will destroy the sacred objects of God, will break the vessels and will take away the golden altar, the candlestick and the table.

    COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 11:41

  5. Daniel 12:5-6
    That is, when that angel, who talked to me, left, and appeared to have entered the riverbed, to look for a place to ford. Suddenly two others appeared, standing on the opposite banks. Therefore the angel, while he proceeded in the riverbed and trod the stream in safety, played the role of he who knows the depth of the mysteries of God. So “the one standing on this bank of the stream and the one on the other” represent the symbol of the faculty to ask questions omitted by the prophet, which has been granted to them both. For this reason, as if they had received the faculty to do so, they question the other angel.

    COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 12:5

  6. Daniel 12:11
    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.

    COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 12:11

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