Daniel 8:16
And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et audivi vocem viri inter Ulai : et clamavit, et ait : Gabriel, fac intelligere istam visionem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἤκουσα φωνὴν ἀνδρὸς ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ Οὐβάλ, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν καὶ εἶπεν Γαβριήλ, συνέτισον ἐκεῖνον τὴν ὅρασιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וָאֶשְׁמַ֥ע קוֹל אָדָ֖ם בֵּ֣ין אוּלָ֑י וַיִּקְרָא֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר גַּבְרִיאֵ֕ל הָבֵ֥ן לְהַלָּ֖ז אֶת הַמַּרְאֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Between, in an island formed by the river. It was the Son of God, (Calmet) or St. Michael, (St. Jerome) directing Gabriel to explain the vision.
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. …