Daniel 10:14
But I am come to teach thee what things shall befall thy people in the latter days, for as yet the vision is for days.
Open Daniel 10:14 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Veni autem ut docerem te quæ ventura sunt populo tuo in novissimis diebus, quoniam adhuc visio in dies.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἦλθον συνετίσαι σε ὅσα ἀπαντήσεται τῷ λαῷ σου ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν, ὅτι ἔτι ἡ ὅρασις εἰς ἡμέρας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּבָ֨אתִי֙ לַהֲבִ֣ינְךָ֔ אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר יִקְרָ֥ה לְעַמְּךָ֖ בְּאַחֲרִ֣ית הַיָּמִ֑ים כִּי ע֥וֹד חָז֖וֹן לַיָּמִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Days. It will not soon take place; or, I have many things to tell.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Jod
73. The Greek version hath a more concise expression for our, “Give me understanding,” συν™τισον με , expressing “give understanding” by the single word συν™τισον , which the Latin cannot do; as if one could not say, Heal me; and it were necessary to say, Give me health, as it is here said, “Give me understanding;” or, make me whole, as here it may be said, make me intelligent. This indeed an Angel could do: for he said to Daniel, “I am come to give thee understanding;” and this word is in the Greek, as it is here also, συν™τισαί σε ; as if the Latin translator were to render θεραπεῦσαί σε by sanitatem dare tibi. …
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XIII. Of the fact that opposing powers turn the attack, which they aim at men, even against each other
For it is quite clear that they aim these attacks, with which they assault men, even against each other, for in like manner they do not cease to promote with unwearied strife the discords and struggles which they have undertaken for some peoples because of a sort of innate love of wickedness which they have: and this we read of as being very clearly set forth in the vision of Daniel the prophet, where the angel Gabriel speaks as follows: “Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, to afflict thyself in the sight of thy God, thy words have been heard: and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me one and twenty days: and behold Michael one of the chief princes came to help me, and I remained there by the king of the Persians. …