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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
The Greek version has a more concise expression for "give me understanding," sunetison me, expressing "give understanding" by the single word sunetison, which the Latin cannot do; as if one could not say, "Heal me," and it were necessary to say, "Give me health," as it is here said, "Give me understanding"; or "Make me whole," as here it may be said, "Make me intelligent." This indeed an angel could do, for he said to Daniel, "I come to give you understanding"; and this word is in the Greek, as it is here also, sunetisai se; as if …
Jerome
Verse 14. "And I have come to teach thee what things shall befall thy people in the last days." The very petition which Daniel had requested is the thing which he deserves to hear from God, namely what is going to happen to the people of Israel, not in the near future, but in the last days, that is, at the end of the world.
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