Daniel 2:34 (WEB)
You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
Fathers and councils · 18
Irenaeus of Lyons
“On this account also, Daniel, foreseeing His advent, said that a stone, cut out without hands, came into this world.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34.
Read the whole comment“…other part clay, until the stone was cut out without hands, and struck the image upon the iron and clay feet, and dashed them into pieces, even to the end.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 33, 34.
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Tertullian
“…of Jacob, the second; that is, of our “people,” whose “mount” is Christ, “præcised without concisors’ hands, filling every land,” shown in the book of Daniel.” — editor's note: See Dan. ii. 34, 35, 44, 45. See c. xiv. below.
Read the whole comment“…consummation, and that “rock”—so we must admit—which is read of in Daniel as forecut from a mount, which shall crush and crumble the image of secular kingdoms.” — editor's note: Or, “worldly kingdoms.” See Dan. ii. 34, 35, 44, 45.
Read the whole comment“…place of the temple, even His church, being that very stone in Daniel, cut out of the mountain, which was to smite and crush the image of the secular kingdom.” — editor's note: See Dan. ii. 34.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
“Christ is called a stone on account of His earthly body, cut out without hands, (Dan. 2:34.) as in the vision of Daniel, because of His birth of the Virgin.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“We have the Lord Himself called a mountain by the Prophet, as it is written, “The stone that was cut out without hands grew to the size of a mountain.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“Out of that hill which Daniel saw “grow out of a small stone, and break all the kingdoms of the earth; and cover all the face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“This stone which was cut from the hill without hands increased, and “became,” he saith, “a great mountain, and filled the whole face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“The Stone which was “cut out of the Mountain without hands,” is it not Christ, who came of the kingdom of the Jews, without the work of man?” — editor's note: Supra, Hom. in Ev. iv. 4; Dan. ii. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment““And that stone,” saith he “grew and became a great mountain and filled the whole face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, in the fifth age, in the fifth water-pot as it were, Daniel saw a stone that had been cut from a mountain without hands, and had broken all the kingdoms of the earth; and he saw the stone grow and become a great mountain, so as to fill the whole face of the earth.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34.
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Jerome
“In fact amongst the other blasphemies which with sacrilegious lips you have uttered you have dared to say that the mountain in Daniel out of which the stone was cut without hands is the devil, and that the stone is Christ, who having taken a body from Adam (whose sins had before connected him…” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 45.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…the Apostle speaks, “Ye are fellow-citizens of the saints.” [Eph 2:19] It is built upon Christ the hill, of whom Daniel thus, “A stone hewed without hands” [Dan 2:34] became a great mountain.” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“And again it shall fall on the image and crush it.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34.
Read the whole comment“And above he said:—Thou sawest a stone which was cut out, but not by hands; and it smote the image upon its feet of iron and potter’s clay and broke them to pieces.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And the stone which struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 31–35.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 31–35.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 5:14 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.26.
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 5:14 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 61.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.26.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 5:14 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 61.
Cited together in Letters Letter 61.