Daniel 10:5

John Cassian

• John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.20Conference I

  “…command bids us, become good money-changers, whose highest skill and whose training is to test what is perfectly pure gold and what is commonly termed tested, or what is not sufficiently purified in the fire; and also with unerring skill not to be taken in by a common brass denarius, if by being coloured with bright…” — editor's note: Obrizum. The word occurs in the Vulgate five times for “pure gold.” See 2 Chr. iii. 5; Job xxviii. 15; xxxi. 24; Isa. xiii. 12; Dan. x. 5; and is akin to the…

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 9

  “…since, from the first day on which thou gavest thy soul to recogitation and to humiliation before God, thy word hath been heard, and I am entered at thy word.”” — editor's note: See Dan. x. 1–3, 5, 12.

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Ephrem the Syrian

• Ephrem the Syrian, Three Homilies Homily 1

  “For behold, Daniel also was melted and poured out on every side before the glory of the angel, whose vehement brightness suddenly shone upon him! and it was not because of the angel’s…” — editor's note: Dan. x. 5, 6.

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• Matthew 4:6

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• Matthew 18:8

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• 1 John 4:1

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• 2 Chronicles 3:5

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• Job 28:15

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• Job 31:24

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• Psalm 90:11

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• Psalm 90:12

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• Proverbs 11:15

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• Proverbs 16:25

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• Isaiah 13:12

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