Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 9:3

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 109, footnote 7 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Fasting. (HTML)

Of Stations, and of the Hours of Prayer. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1087 (In-Text, Margin)

... both presently convicted, by lot, of sin, and with difficulty exempted from punishment through the prayer of the People: for he had been convicted of gluttony, although of a simple kind. But withal Daniel, in the first year of King Darius, when, fasting in sackcloth and ashes, he was doing exomologesis to God, said: “And while I was still speaking in prayer, behold, the man whom I had seen in dreams at the beginning, swiftly flying, approached me, as it were, at the hour of the evening sacrifice.”[Daniel 9:3-4] This will be a “late” Station which, fasting until the evening, sacrifices a fatter (victim of) prayer to God!