Daniel 2:45 (WEB)
Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
Fathers and councils · 11
Irenaeus of Lyons
“As thou sawest that the stone was cut without hands from the mountain, and brake in pieces the baked clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold, God has pointed out to the king what shall come to pass after these things; and the dream is true, and the interpretation trustworthy.”” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 44, 45.
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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.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The like doctrine thou has also in the interpretation of the Stone, which was cut out of a mountain without hands, which is Christ according to the flesh; And His kingdom shall not be left to another people.” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 45; Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“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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Jerome
“In another place He is foretold to be “a stone cut out of the mountain without hands,” a figure by which the prophet signifies that He is to be born a virgin of a virgin.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 45.
Read the whole comment“Daniel, the fourth and last of the four prophets, having knowledge of the times and being interested in the whole world, in clear language proclaims the stone cut out of the mountain without hands that overthrows all kingdoms.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 45.
Read the whole comment“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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Gregory of Nyssa
“For what is the stone that is laid but Christ Himself? for of Him Isaiah says, “And I will lay in the foundations of Sion a costly stone, precious, elect:” and Daniel likewise, “A stone was cut out without hands,” that is, Christ was born without a man.” — editor's note: Cf. Dan. ii. 45
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And he has been “severed without hands to effect the division,” and has been borne down into the image of oblivion, being earthly and clayish.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 45.
Read the whole comment“After a little space the stone will come from heaven which smites the image and breaks it in pieces, and subverts all the kingdoms, and gives the kingdom to the saints of the Most High.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 34, 45.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Against Heresies V.26.
Cited together in Letters Letter 61.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.26.
Cited together in Letters Letter 61.
Cited together in Letters Letter 61.