On Daniel
Hippolytus of Rome
Chapter 1
About this work
The earliest substantially surviving Christian commentary on Daniel, reading its stories and visions in relation to faithful endurance, Christ, imperial power, persecution, and future hope.
- Author
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Date
- Early 3rd century
- Origin
- Rome
- Genre
- Commentary
The Hippolytan corpus presents attribution questions that should be reviewed work by work.
Chap. i. 1 “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim.” The Scripture narrates these things, with the purpose of intimating the second captivity of the people, when Jehoiakim and the three youths with him, together with Daniel, were taken captive and carried off.
Section 2
2. “And the Lord gave,”