Daniel 12:9
And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ait : Vade, Daniel, quia clausi sunt signatique sermones usque ad præfinitum tempus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Δεῦρο Δανιήλ, ὅτι ἐνπεφραγμένοι καὶ ἐσφραγισμένοι οἱ λόγοι, ἕως καιροῦ πέρας
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֵ֣ךְ דָּנִיֵּ֑אל כִּֽי סְתֻמִ֧ים וַחֲתֻמִ֛ים הַדְּבָרִ֖ים עַד עֵ֥ת קֵֽץ
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
17. His acts of insolence towards the saint you all know in full detail. Often were the righteous given into the hands of the wicked, not that the latter might be honoured, but that the former might be tested: and though the wicked come, as it is written, to an awful death, nevertheless for the present the godly are a laughing stock, while the goodness of God and the great treasuries of what is in store for each of them hereafter are concealed. Then indeed word and deed and thought will be weighed in the just balances of God, as He arises to judge the earth, gathering together counsel and works, and revealing what He had kept sealed up. …