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Daniel 12:2

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

Nor is there any real contradiction between John's "all who are in the tombs" and Daniel's "many" in place of "all." As an illustration of this, notice how, in one place, God said to Abraham, "I have made you the father of many nations" and in another, "In your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed."

City of God 20.23 ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

And so of the things which will be in this way he adds saying, "And many of they who sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise, some to eternal life and some to reproach and eternal shame and they who understand shall shine as the splendor of the firmament and the many righteous as the stars in the age to come." [Daniel 12:2-3] And so who are they who sleep in the dust of the earth, but the bodies of men who receive their own souls to be raised, who are of the resurrection of life, who are pure and radiant and shine as splendor of …

Commentary on Daniel 4.55.1-7 ↗