Jerome – Commentary on Daniel
| Document: | Commentary on Daniel |
| Reference: | CPL 588, Stegmuller 3358 |
| Incipit: | Contra prophetam Danielem |
| Addressee: | Pammachius and Marcella |
| Date: | 407 (Kelly p. 298) |
| Earliest ms.: | Sankt-Gallen, Switzerland: Stiftsbibliothek, 189, f. 321-381 8th century. (Lambert, II: p. 148) |
| Latin Text: | F. Glorie, ed., Hieronymus: Commentariorum in Danielem libri III, CChr.SL vol. 75A (Turnhout 1964)Migne, ed., Commentariorum In Danielem Prophetam, PL vol. 25, coll. 491-584A. |
| English Translation: | Translation and introduction by Gleason Archer: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_daniel_00_eintro.htm Also published as G. Archer, Jerome’s Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids 1958).Preface translated in Selections from the preface are translated by W.H. Fremantle, “” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 495-96. |
| Notes: | This commentary was largely aimed at the criticisms of Porphyry, who took the Book of Daniel as relating to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes. |
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