Daniel

" This will be the great and illustrious day of the Lord, of the Son of man coming from the heavens, according to Daniel:

"And from the time of the changing of the continual sacrifice, and the giving of the abomination of desolation, a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob — not of Esau, the elder son, but of Jacob, the later, that is, of our people, whose mountain is Christ, cut out without the hands of those who hew, filling all the earth, as shown in Daniel.

Which Daniel's case too persuades, who prayed three times a day—surely with the exception of certain hours, and none other than the more notable, thence the apostolic ones, the third, the sixth, the ninth.

But if that is not complete, it stands necessarily in need of interpretation, like what Ḥizqiyāl and Dāniyāl and others beheld.

Remember the vision of God granted to Daniel, how he brings the judgement before our eyes.

Seen in this light, the Roman Empire is accurately described in the Prophecy of Daniel.

For one of the prophets, the most wise Daniel, says to the king of Babylon:

— that he was far from it whom we believe to be everywhere and everywhere to appear, to whom even inanimate and incorporeal things sing praises in Daniel?

Therefore, if even the divine monarchy is administered through so many legions and armies of angels — as it is written, "Thousand thousands stood before him, and ten thousand times ten thousand appeared before him" — and yet has not ceased to be one man's so as to cease being a monarchy, because it is carried on through so many thousands of powers:

" And Daniel:

God, forsooth, will not hear men in their cloaks — he who heard the three saints, praying in the furnace of the king of Babylon, with their trousers and their turbans!