Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 10:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 51, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril. (HTML)

On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1063 (In-Text, Margin)

... should not perish. The word is not mine, but the Prophet’s. If Thou shalt rend the heavens, trembling will take hold of the mountains at sight of Thee, and they will flow down. And why dost thou wonder that Ezekiel fell down on seeing the likeness of the glory? when Daniel at the sight of Gabriel, though but a servant of God, straightway shuddered and fell on his face, and, prophet as he was, dared not answer him, until the Angel transformed himself into the likeness of a son of man[Daniel 10:18]. Now if the appearing of Gabriel wrought trembling in the Prophets, had God Himself been seen as He is, would not all have perished?