Irenaeus — Commentary on Scripture

Daniel 2:35

Therefore, God who is great showed future things by Daniel and confirmed them by his Son; and Christ is the stone that is cut out without hands, who shall destroy temporal kingdoms and introduce an eternal one, which is the resurrection of the just.

AGAINST HERESIES 5:26.2

Daniel 3:25

It is manifest [in Scripture] that the Father is indeed invisible, of whom also the Lord said, “No one has seen God at any time.” But his Word, as he willed it and for the benefit of those who saw, did show the Father’s brightness and explained his will.… He appeared to those who saw him not in one figure or in one character but according to the reasons and purposes that he wanted to achieve, as we see written in Daniel. He was seen with those who were around Ananias, Azarias and Misael as present with them in the furnace of fire, in the burning, and preserving them from [the effects of] fire: “And the appearance of the fourth,” it is said, “was like the Son of God.” At another time [he is represented as] “a stone cut out of the mountain without hands” and as destroying all temporal kingdoms … and as himself filling all the earth. Then too he is the same being beheld as the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven and drawing near to the Ancient of Days.

AGAINST HERESIES 4:20.11

Daniel 9:21

This passage reveals to us … that there is one and the same God the Father, who was declared by the prophets but made manifest by Christ. The Lord confirmed those things Daniel prophesied about the end, when our Lord said, “When you see the abomination of desolation that was told by Daniel the prophet.” The angel Gabriel explained the visions to Daniel. This Gabriel is both the archangel of the Creator (Demiurge) and the one who proclaimed to Mary the coming and incarnation of Christ. Thus, most clearly, it must be one and the same God who sent the prophets and who sent forth his Son and called us to recognize him.

AGAINST HERESIES 5:25.5

Daniel 12:3

The person who loves God shall arrive at such excellence as even to see God, and hear his word and from the hearing of his discourse be glorified to such an extent that others cannot behold the glory of his countenance.

AGAINST HERESIES 4:26.1

Daniel 12:4

And Jeremiah also says, “In the last days they shall understand these things.” For every prophecy, before its fulfillment, appears to people to be full of enigmas and ambiguities. But when the time has arrived and the prediction has come to pass, the prophecies have a clear and certain meaning.

AGAINST HERESIES 4:26.1

Daniel 12:10

“The words are sealed up until those who are intelligent understand and those who are white are made white.” [The Gnostic Marcosians] boast that they themselves are the ones who are white and quite intelligent.

AGAINST HERESIES 1:19

Daniel 12:13

“All dominions shall serve him.” Lest this promise should be understood as referring to this time, the prophet declared, “Stand in your place at the consummation of days.”

AGAINST HERESIES 5:34.2