Daniel 2:35 (WEB)
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Fathers and councils · 19
Tertullian
“…prevent Israel from priding himself on the notion that “the Gentiles are accounted as a little drop of a bucket,” or else as “dust out of a threshing-floor:” although we have God Himself as an adequate engager and faithful promiser, in that He promised to Abraham that “in his seed should be blest all nations of the…” — editor's note: See Isa. xl. 15: “dust of the balance,” Eng. Ver.; ῥοπὴ ζυγοῦ LXX. For the expression “dust out of a threshing-floor,” however, see Ps. i. 4, Dan. ii. 35.
Read the whole comment“…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“Seize the opportunity of unexpected felicity: that you, who sometime were in God’s sight nothing but “a drop of a bucket,” and “dust of the threshing-floor,” and “a potter’s vessel,” may thenceforward become that “tree which is sown beside the waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own time,” and shall…” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 35; Matt. iii. 12.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Take heed therefore to thyself, and turn not again to what is behind, having put thine hand to the plough, and then turning back to the salt savour of this life’s doings; but escape to the mountain, to Jesus Christ, that stone hewn without hands, which has filled the world.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 35, 45.
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Gregory the Great
“…of the whole human race (Matth. xiii. 33); and to the little stone, which, cut out of the mountain without hands, has occupied the whole face of the earth (Dan. ii. 35), and which to this end everywhere distends itself, that from the human race reduced to unity the body of the whole Church might be perfected, and…” — 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“It is that mountain which, according to Daniel’s vision, grew from a very small “stone,” till it crushed the kingdoms of the earth; and grew to such a size, that it “filled the face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 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“For now that stone hath grown, now say we unto them, Lo, now is fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel, “The stone that was small became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 35.
Read the whole comment“So that it filled the whole face of the earth.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 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“But “the stone grew, and became a great mountain;” and what saith the Scripture?” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 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.
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Aphrahat
“For he said:—The stone was cut out from the mountain, not by hands, and it smote the image, and the whole earth was filled with it.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“And in the next verse he said:—The iron and the brass and the silver and the gold were broken to pieces together.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 35.
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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 · 16
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Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
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