Daniel 12:6
And I said to the man that was clothed in linen, that stood upon the waters of the river: How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixi viro qui erat indutus lineis, qui stabat super aquas fluminis : Usquequo finis horum mirabilium ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ ἐνδεδυμένῳ τὰ βαδδείν, ὃς ἦν ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ ποταμοῦ Ἕως πότε τὸ πέρας ὧν εἴρηκας τῶν θαυμασίων;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לָאִישׁ֙ לְב֣וּשׁ הַבַּדִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִמַּ֖עַל לְמֵימֵ֣י הַיְאֹ֑ר עַד מָתַ֖י קֵ֥ץ הַפְּלָאֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
I. Hebrew, "He." Theod.[Theodotion?], Syriac and Arabic, "they said" to Gabriel, chap. x. 5. Angels ask questions of each other, chap. viii. 13.
Wonders. How long shall this be in the dark, and the misery continue?
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 Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Testimony IV
In Isaiah: “And all these words shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which, if you shall give to a man that knoweth letters to read, he shall say, I cannot read, for it is sealed. But in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they who are in darkness and in a cloud; the eyes of the blind shall see.” Also in Jeremiah: “In the last of the days ye shall know those things.” In Daniel, moreover: “Secure the words, and seal the book until the time of consummation, until many learn, and knowledge is fulfilled, because when there shall be a dispersion they shall know all these things.” Likewise in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “Brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud.” Also in the second Epistle to the Corinthians: “Their minds are blinded even unto this day, by this same veil which is taken …