Daniel 2:43
And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod autem vidisti ferrum mistum testæ ex luto, commiscebuntur quidem humano semine, sed non adhærebunt sibi, sicut ferrum misceri non potest testæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἴδες τὸν σίδηρον ἀναμεμιγμένον τῷ ὀστράκῳ, συνμιγεῖς ἔσονται ἐν σπέρματι ἀνθρώπων· καὶ οὐκ ἔσονται προσκολλώμενοι οὗτος μετὰ τούτου, καθὼς ὁ σίδηρος οὐκ ἀναμίγνυται μετὰ τοῦ ὀστράκου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- די חֲזַ֗יְתָ פַּרְזְלָא֙ מְעָרַב֙ בַּחֲסַ֣ף טִינָ֔א מִתְעָרְבִ֤ין לֶהֱוֺן֙ בִּזְרַ֣ע אֲנָשָׁ֔א וְלָֽא לֶהֱוֺ֥ן דָּבְקִ֖ין דְּנָ֣ה עִם דְּנָ֑ה הֵֽא כְדִ֣י פַרְזְלָ֔א לָ֥א מִתְעָרַ֖ב עִם חַסְפָּֽא
Haydock's commentary
Man. Pompey and Cæsar, Anthony and Augustus, married each other's relations; but they soon quarrelled, and the race of the Cæsars was extinct in Nero. But this is better understood of the kings of Syria and of Egypt. (Calmet)
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 Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book V, Chapter XXVI. John and Daniel have
1. In a still clearer light has John, in the Apocalypse, indicated to the Lord’s disciples what shall happen in the last times, and concerning the ten kings who shall then arise, among whom the empire which now rules [the earth] shall be partitioned. He teaches us what the ten horns shall be which were seen by Daniel, telling us that thus it had been said to him: “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but shall receive power as if kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and give their strength and power to the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings.” It is manifest, therefore, that of these [potentates], he who is to come shall slay three, and subject the remainder to his power, and that he shall be himself the eighth among them. …
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Wars
13. And the legs and feet of the image were of iron. This is the kingdom of the children of Shem, who are the children of Esau, which is strong as iron. And he said: As iron breaks and subdueth everything, so also the fourth kingdom shall break and bruise everything . And he explained with reference to the feet and toes, that part of them was of iron and part of them of potter’s clay. For he said: Thus they shall be mingled with the seed of man, and they shall not cleave one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay . This referred to the fourth kingdom. Because in the kingdom of the children of Esau there was not a king, the son of a king, established to govern the kingdom; but when the children of Esau were gathered together into a powerful city, then they made a senate. …