On Daniel
Hippolytus of Rome
Chapter 12
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. xii. 1 “There shall be a time of trouble.” For at that time there shall be great trouble, such as has not been from the foundation of the world, when some in one way, and others in another, shall be sent through every city and country to destroy the faithful; and the saints shall travel from the west to the east, and shall be driven in persecution from the east to the south, while others shall conceal themselves in the mountains and caves; and the abomination shall war against them everywhere, and shall cut them off by sea and by land by his decree, and shall endeavour by every means to destroy them out of the world; and they shall not be able any longer to sell their own property, nor to buy from strangers, unless one keeps and carries with him the name of the beast, or bears its mark upon his forehead. For then they shall all be driven out from every place, and dragged from their own homes and haled into prison, and punished with all manner of punishment, and cast out from the whole world.
Section 2
2. “These shall