In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
KJV
Louis Segond 1910
En ce moment, apparurent les doigts d'une main d'homme, et ils écrivirent, en face du chandelier, sur la chaux de la muraille du palais royal. Le roi vit cette extrémité de main qui écrivait.
KJV
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
1-7 ) and to Nabuchodonosor ( Dan. 4:1-2 ), or even by bodily likenesses, as happened to Balthasar ( Dan. 5:5 ), such a man is not to be considered a prophet, unless his mind be enlightened for the purpose of judgment; and such an apparition is something imperfect in the genus of…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
dane bodily vision, conveyed through the senses; thus was seen the hand of one writing on the wall ( Dan. 5:5 ); the second heaven would be an imaginary vision such as Isaias saw, and John in the Apocalypse; and the third heaven would denote an intellectual vision according to Au…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
s matrem. [Col. 1351A] 20. Cur articuli scribentis manus contra candelabrum apparuisse scribuntur (Dan. V, 5) ? Ut longius non apparerent. 21. Interfecto Baldasar, obsessaque Babylone a Medis et Persis, Dario videlicet et Cyro, cur Darius solus successit in regnum, et non c…
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