Daniel

Prophet whose prophecy about the learned shining as stars is quoted at the conclusion of the dedicatory letter.

Preliminaries

• TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — His prophecy quoted: "They that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament"

  "which was promised by Daniel: 'They that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that instruct many unto justice, as stars for all eternity.'"

• DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV). — Daniel listed among the Major Prophets in the canon

  "Ezechiel, Daniel"

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• I. THE HELMETED PROLOGUE. — The sixth book of the Hagiographa

  "The sixth is Daniel."

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — At the end of the most sacred vision says the righteous shall shine like stars and the learned like the firmament

  "Daniel at the end of the most sacred vision says that the righteous shall shine like stars, and the understanding, that is, the learned, like the firmament."

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — The last among the four prophets; conscious of the times; the stone cut from the mountain without hands overturning all kingdoms

  "The fourth indeed, the last among the four prophets, conscious of the times and of the stone of the whole world cut from the mountain without hands"

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire lists Daniel among the prophets who prepared the way: "Daniel calculated the hour of the promise"

  "Daniel calculated the hour of the promise"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — In chapter 7, keeps word of God in heart; troubled in thoughts; astonished at vision for lack of interpreter

  "Daniel, in chapter 7 verse 8, keeps the word of God in his heart"

• Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — Attained the dreams of the Chaldean king and the 70 years of exile by prayer; taught by Gabriel

  "Daniel, that man of desires, attained the dreams of the Chaldean king... by prayer, and was taught by Gabriel"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Sacred Chronology — Years from beginning of world to the weeks of Daniel: 3486

  "Years from the beginning of the world to the weeks of Daniel: 3486"

• Sacred Chronology — Years from beginning of world to the end of the weeks of Daniel: 3984

  "Years from the beginning of the world to the end of the weeks of Daniel: 3984"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness — Cited for dominion over the lions

  "Daniel over the lions"