Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 8:1

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 137, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1131 (In-Text, Margin)

4. As far, then, as is in our power, we have taken the Scripture, I think, correctly; especially seeing that the preceding section about the vision seems to state the whole matter shortly, its first words being, “In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar,”[Daniel 8:1] where he prophesies of the subversion of the Persian power by the Greeks, which empires are symbolized in the prophecy under the figures of the ram and the goat respectively. “The sacrifice,” he says, “shall be abolished, and the holy places shall be made desolate, so as to be trodden under foot; which things shall be determined within 2300 days.” For if we take the ...