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Daniel 10:1Dan.10.1

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing [was] true, but the time appointed [was] long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

La troisième année de Cyrus, roi de Perse, une parole fut révélée à Daniel, qu'on nommait Beltschatsar. Cette parole, qui est véritable, annonce une grande calamité. Il fut attentif à cette parole, et il eut l'intelligence de la vision.

KJV

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing [was] true, but the time appointed [was] long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    understanding can be in those who have not sanctifying grace. Objection 2: Further, it is written ( Dan. 10:1 ) that "there is need of understanding in a" prophetic "vision," so that, seemingly, there is no prophecy without the gift of understanding. But there can be prophecy wit…

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    , "it is not imaginative but intellective vision that makes the prophet"; wherefore it is declared ( Dan. 10:1 ) that "there is need of understanding in a vision." Now intellective vision, as stated in the same book (Gen. ad lit. xii, 6) is not effected by means of images, but by…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    in eodem libro e contrario scribitur: Anno tertio Cyri regis Persarum, verbum revelatum est Danieli (Dan. X, 1) ? RESPONSIO. Quod dicitur fuisse Danielem usque ad annum primum Cyri regis, non vitae illius tempus accipiendum est, sed hoc significatur, quod usque ad primum ann…

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