Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 10:1

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 107, footnote 13 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Fasting. (HTML)

From Fasts Absolute Tertullian Comes to Partial Ones and Xerophagies. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1068 (In-Text, Margin)

... humiliation. “In those days,” he says, “I Daniel was mourning during three weeks: pleasant bread I ate not; flesh and wine entered not into my mouth; with oil I was not anointed; until three weeks were consummated:” which being elapsed, an angel was sent out (from God), addressing him on this wise: “Daniel, thou art a man pitiable; fear not: since, from the first day on which thou gavest thy soul to recogitation and to humiliation before God, thy word hath been heard, and I am entered at thy word.”[Daniel 10:1-3] Thus the “pitiable” spectacle and the humiliation of xerophagies expel fear, and attract the ears of God, and make men masters of secrets.