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Daniel 7:28

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Jerome

Verse 28. "Thus far is the end of the word." That is, "the end of that word and discourse which the Lord revealed to me in this present vision." "...I, Daniel, was much troubled with my thoughts, and my countenance was altered within me; but I preserved the word in my heart." Up to this point the Book of Daniel was written in the Chaldee and Syriac language. All the rest that follows up to the very end of the volume we read in Hebrew.

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SEVEN ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

And so since he hid the day from them, but through the signs which have happened, through which a man will easily discover the time of the end, he declares that we ought to know the events according to their time, and when we see them, to be silent. But it is necessary for these things to be even if we do not want them happen. For the truth never lies. …

Commentary on Daniel 4.17.1-9 ↗