Commentary on Daniel (fragments) 9.1–10.30
Greek text: Mai, NVSC 1 (Greek text: A. Mai (1831); OCR made for this site. Mai's Latin translation and notes are not reproduced.).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 9
9.1Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15
Συνῆκα ἐν ταῖς βίβλοις τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐτῶν. Ἐπεὶ τοίνυν ὁ λαὸς πρὸς τὴν αἴτησιν τῆς ἐπανόδου μὴ ἐγρηγόρει, αὐτὸς τὰ τοῦ λαοῦ οἰκειωσάμενος, προσπίπτει θεῷ, λαμβάνων ἀφορμὴν τῆς αἰτήσεως τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐτῶν.
Synēka en tais biblois ton arithmon tōn etōn. Epei toinyn ho laos pros tēn aitēsin tēs epanodou mē egrēgorei, autos ta tou laou oikeiōsamenos, prospiptei theǭ, lambanōn aphormēn tēs aitēseōs ton arithmon tōn etōn.
"I understood in the books the number of the years." Since the people were not alert to ask for the return, he himself, making the people's cause his own, falls down before God, taking the number of years as the occasion for his request.
Dan 9:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 25:11–12 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel, reading Jeremiah's seventy years, prayed for the people's return.
- Scholion on Dan 9:2. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 15): Συνῆκα ἐν ταῖς βίβλοις τὸν ἀριθμόν τῶν dvi», Ἐκεὶ τοίνυν à λαὸς πρὸς τὴν αἴτοσιν τῆς ἐφανόδου μὲ Pyeeyopu . αὐτὸς τὰ τοῦ λαρῦ οἰκειωσάμενες, προσπίπτει θοῷ, λαμβάνων ἀξορμὴν τὴς αἰτήσεως τὸν ὠριϑμὸν τῶν ἐτῶν. → Συνῆκα ἐν ταῖς βίβλοις τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐτῶν. Ἐπεὶ τοίνυν ὁ λαὸς πρὸς τὴν αἴτησιν τῆς ἐπανόδου μὴ ἐγρηγόρει, αὐτὸς τὰ τοῦ λαοῦ οἰκειωσάμενος, προσπίπτει θεῷ, λαμβάνων ἀφορμὴν τῆς αἰτήσεως τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐτῶν..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.1 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.2Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15
Εἰς συμπλήρωσιν ἐρημώσεως. Οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν ὅτι ἐπληρώθη, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς συμπλήρωσιν, ὅπερ ἐγγίζειν ἢ συμπεπληρῶσθαι σημαίνει. — Σφόδρα περὶ τὸν λαὸν διακείμενος φαίνεται ὁ προφήτης, οὐκ ἐκ τῶν προρρηθέντων μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων· ὡς γὰρ ἑώρα λοιπὸν συμπληρούμενον τὸν ὁρισθέντα τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας χρόνον, ἰουδαίους δὲ οὐδεμίαν ἔχοντας σπουδὴν πρὸς τὴν ἄνοδον οὐδὲ ἐκτενεύοντας τὸν θεόν, σκοπήσας ὡς τῆς προθεσμίας παρελθούσης, καὶ τῶν περὶ τῆς ἐπανόδου ἐπαγγελιῶν μὴ πληρωθεισῶν, αὖθις ἑτέραν ἀφορμὴν οἱ παράνομοι λήψονται τῆς κατὰ θεὸν βλασφημίας, ὡς ψευσαμένου καὶ μὴ ἀναγαγόντος τὸν λαόν, αὐτὸς εἰς ἱκεσίαν ἐτράπη καινήν, ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων ποιούμενος τὴν προσευχήν.
Eis symplērōsin erēmōseōs. Ou gar eipen hoti eplērōthē, all᾽ eis symplērōsin, hoper engizein ē sympeplērōsthai sēmainei. — Sphodra peri ton laon diakeimenos phainetai ho prophētēs, ouk ek tōn prorrēthentōn monon, alla kai ek tōn parontōn; hōs gar heōra loipon symplēroumenon ton horisthenta tēs aichmalōsias chronon, ioudaious de oudemian echontas spoudēn pros tēn anodon oude ekteneuontas ton theon, skopēsas hōs tēs prothesmias parelthousēs, kai tōn peri tēs epanodou epangeliōn mē plērōtheisōn, authis heteran aphormēn hoi paranomoi lēpsontai tēs kata theon blasphēmias, hōs pseusamenou kai mē anagagontos ton laon, autos eis hikesian etrapē kainēn, hyper hapantōn poioumenos tēn proseuchēn.
"For the fulfilment of the desolation." For he did not say "it has been fulfilled," but "for the fulfilment," which signifies "it is near to being fulfilled." — The prophet appears to be very concerned for the people, not only from what had been foretold but also from the present circumstances; for since he saw the appointed time of the captivity being completed, and the Jews having no zeal for the return nor entreating God, he considered that, if the opportunity passed and the promises about the return were not fulfilled, the lawless would again take another occasion for blasphemy against God, as having lied and not brought back the people; so he himself turned to supplication, making the prayer on behalf of all.
Dan 9:2–3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel prayed because the seventy years were nearly complete and the people did not seek their return.
- Scholion on Dan 9:2–3. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 15): Εἰς συμπλέρωσιν ἐξημώσεως, Οὐ γὰρ εἶσιν ἔτι ἐσληρώϑη, aXX εἰς συμαλύρωσιν, ὅπερ ἐγγίζειν 5 συμπτεληρώσθαι σημαίνει, -— Σφόδρα πιρὶ τὸν λαὸν διακείμενος φαίνεται ὁ προφήτης, οὐκ ἐκ τῶν προὶῥηϑέντων μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων ὡς yag ἑώρα Muti» συμσληρούμενον τὸν ὁρισθέντα τῆς αἶχμαλωσίες χρόνον, ἰφυξαίοος δὲ οὐδιμίαν ἴχοντας euis» πρὸς τὴν ἄνοδον οὐδὲ jarrevevsas τὸν θεόν, σκύεησαις εἰς τὸς προϑυμίας παριλϑούσης, καὶ τῶν πιρὶ τὸς ἑφανόβου ἐξασγγιλιὼν μι εληρωϑεισῶν, αὖ. Sie ἑτέραν ἀφορμὲν οἱ παράνομοι λήψονται τῆς κα- và ϑιὸν βλασφημίας, ὡς ψευσαμένου καὶ μὴ ἀναγωγοντος τὸν Àaóv, αὐτὸς εἰς ἱτισίαν ἐτράφη καιγῆν, ὑπὲρ ὀπάντων ποιούμενος τὴν προσευχὴν, → Εἰς συμπλήρωσιν ἐρημώσεως. Οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν ὅτι ἐπληρώθη, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς συμπλήρωσιν, ὅπερ ἐγγίζειν ἢ συμπεπληρῶσθαι σημαίνει. — Σφόδρα περὶ τὸν λαὸν διακείμενος φαίνεται ὁ προφήτης, οὐκ ἐκ τῶν προρρηθέντων μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων· ὡς γὰρ ἑώρα λοιπὸν συμπληρούμενον τὸν ὁρισθέντα τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας χρόνον, ἰουδαίους δὲ οὐδεμίαν ἔχοντας σπουδὴν πρὸς τὴν ἄνοδον οὐδὲ ἐκτενεύοντας τὸν θεόν, σκοπήσας ὡς τῆς προθεσμίας παρελθούσης, καὶ τῶν περὶ τῆς ἐπανόδου ἐπαγγελιῶν μὴ πληρωθεισῶν, αὖθις ἑτέραν ἀφορμὴν οἱ παράνομοι λήψονται τῆς κατὰ θεὸν βλασφημίας, ὡς ψευσαμένου καὶ μὴ ἀναγαγόντος τὸν λαόν, αὐτὸς εἰς ἱκεσίαν ἐτράπη καινήν, ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων ποιούμενος τὴν προσευχήν..
Topics: Prayer, Prophecy and fulfilment
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.2 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.3Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15
Ἡμάρτομεν, ἠδικήσαμεν, ἠσεβήσαμεν, καὶ ἀπέστημεν, καὶ ἐξεκλίναμεν. Ἁμαρτίαν μὲν γὰρ λέγει τοῦ βίου τὸ διάφορον· ἀδικίαν δὲ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον πλεονεξίαν· ἀσέβειαν δὲ τὴν εἰς θεὸν ὕβριν, ἥτις ἐκρίνετο ἐν τῇ τῶν εἰδώλων θρησκείᾳ· τὸ δὲ ἐξεκλίναμεν, ἐμφαντικώτερον εἴρηται, ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ προσκαλουμένου, ἐκείνων δὲ φευγόντων· ἐντολὰς δὲ καὶ κρίματα λέγει τὰ νόμιμα· ἐντολὰς μὲν ὡς προστάγματα, κρίματα δὲ ὡς δικαίως κείμενα.
Hēmartomen, ēdikēsamen, ēsebēsamen, kai apestēmen, kai exeklinamen. Hamartian men gar legei tou biou to diaphoron; adikian de tēn kata tou plēsion pleonexian; asebeian de tēn eis theon hybrin, hētis ekrineto en tę̄ tōn eidōlōn thrēskeią; to de exeklinamen, emphantikōteron eirētai, hōs tou theou proskaloumenou, ekeinōn de pheugontōn; entolas de kai krimata legei ta nomima; entolas men hōs prostagmata, krimata de hōs dikaiōs keimena.
"We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have been ungodly, and have rebelled, and turned aside." By "sins" he means the corruption of life; by "wrong" greed against one's neighbor; by "ungodliness" insult toward God, which was judged in the worship of idols; and "we turned aside" is said more vividly, as though God were calling and they fleeing. By "commandments" and "judgments" he means the ordinances: commandments as orders, judgments as justly laid down.
Dan 9:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius distinguishes the terms of Daniel's confession of sin.
- Scholion on Dan 9:5. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 15): 'Hpaeroper , ἠδικήσαμεν, ἀσιβήσαμεν καὶ ἐπίστημιν, καὶ ἐξεκλίναμεν. ᾿Αμαρτίαν μὲν γὰρ λέ. qui τοῦ (oo τὸ διώφορον, ἀδικίαν δὲ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ πλη- eim πλεονεξίαν, ἀσέβειαν δὲ τὴν εἰς ϑεὸν ὕβριν, ὅτις ἐχρίνετο d» τῇ τῶν εἰδώλων θρησκείᾳ" τὸ Pi ἐξεκλί. ναμεν͵ ἐμφαντικώτερον εἶρηται, ὡς τοῦ ϑεοῦ προσ. καλουμένου, ἐκείνην δὲ φιυγάντων' ἐντολὰς ξὶ καὶ κρίματα λήγει và νύμιμα ἐντολὲς μὲν ὡς προστανγματα, κρίματα δὲ ὡς δικαίως κείμενα, → Ἡμάρτομεν, ἠδικήσαμεν, ἠσεβήσαμεν, καὶ ἀπέστημεν, καὶ ἐξεκλίναμεν. Ἁμαρτίαν μὲν γὰρ λέγει τοῦ βίου τὸ διάφορον· ἀδικίαν δὲ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον πλεονεξίαν· ἀσέβειαν δὲ τὴν εἰς θεὸν ὕβριν, ἥτις ἐκρίνετο ἐν τῇ τῶν εἰδώλων θρησκείᾳ· τὸ δὲ ἐξεκλίναμεν, ἐμφαντικώτερον εἴρηται, ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ προσκαλουμένου, ἐκείνων δὲ φευγόντων· ἐντολὰς δὲ καὶ κρίματα λέγει τὰ νόμιμα· ἐντολὰς μὲν ὡς προστάγματα, κρίματα δὲ ὡς δικαίως κείμενα..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.3 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.4Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15
Οὐκ εἰσηκούσαμεν. Οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἠρκέσθης φησὶ δοὺς τὸν νόμον διὰ Μωϋσέως, καὶ ποιήσας τὰ θαύματα· οὐδὲ ἔστης μέχρι τοῦ δοῦναι ἡμῖν τὴν γῆν· ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ εἶδες ἡμᾶς παραφθείραντας τῶν νομίμων τὴν διάταξιν, τούς τε προφήτας ἀπέστειλας ἄγειν ἐπὶ τὸ δέον ἡμᾶς βουλόμενος· ἀλλ᾽ οὐ γεγόναμεν εὐγνώμονες πρὸς τὰ λεγόμενα, ἀλλ᾽ ἀσυμφώνῳ τῇ γνώμῃ τῆς χείρονος γεγόναμεν γνώμης.
Ouk eisēkousamen. Ou gar monon ērkesthēs phēsi dous ton nomon dia Mōÿseōs, kai poiēsas ta thaumata; oude estēs mechri tou dounai hēmin tēn gēn; all᾽ epeidē eides hēmas paraphtheirantas tōn nomimōn tēn diataxin, tous te prophētas apesteilas agein epi to deon hēmas boulomenos; all᾽ ou gegonamen eugnōmones pros ta legomena, all᾽ asymphōnǭ tę̄ gnōmę̄ tēs cheironos gegonamen gnōmēs.
"We did not listen." For you were not content, he says, with giving the law through Moses and doing the wonders; nor did you stop at giving us the land; but when you saw that we had corrupted the order of the ordinances, you sent the prophets, wishing to lead us to what was right; but we did not become well disposed toward what was said, but, in discord with your purpose, we became of the worse mind.
Dan 9:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Israel ignored God's law, land, and prophets.
- Scholion on Dan 9:6. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 15): Οὐκ εἰσηκούσαμεν, Οὐ γάρ μόνον ἐρκέσϑας φησὶ δοὺς vd» νόμον διὰ Μωσέως ν καὶ ποιήσας ταὶ ϑαυμάτα᾽ οὐδὲ ἔστης μέχρι τοῦ δοῦναι ἡμῖν τὴν qi. ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ εἶδις ἡμᾶς παραςϑείραντας τῶν νομέμων τὸν ξιάταξιν, τούς τε προξύτας ἀείστιιλας ἄγειν ἱπὶ τὸ δέον ἡμᾶς βουλόμενος" ἀλλ' οὐ γεγῆναμαν εὐγνώμονες πρὸς fd λεγάμενα, ἀλλ' ὦσυμ- fée τῇ γνώμη τῆς χείρονος γεγόναμεν γνώμης, → Οὐκ εἰσηκούσαμεν. Οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἠρκέσθης φησὶ δοὺς τὸν νόμον διὰ Μωϋσέως, καὶ ποιήσας τὰ θαύματα· οὐδὲ ἔστης μέχρι τοῦ δοῦναι ἡμῖν τὴν γῆν· ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ εἶδες ἡμᾶς παραφθείραντας τῶν νομίμων τὴν διάταξιν, τούς τε προφήτας ἀπέστειλας ἄγειν ἐπὶ τὸ δέον ἡμᾶς βουλόμενος· ἀλλ᾽ οὐ γεγόναμεν εὐγνώμονες πρὸς τὰ λεγόμενα, ἀλλ᾽ ἀσυμφώνῳ τῇ γνώμῃ τῆς χείρονος γεγόναμεν γνώμης..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.4 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.5Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15
Διέσπειρας αὐτούς. Ἐπταικότας ἡμᾶς φησὶ, εἰς διαφόρους ἀποικίας ἔπεμψας· καὶ εἰ βούλει πρὸς ἡμᾶς κριθῆναι, ὀφθείης μὲν αὐτὸς δίκαιος, ἡμεῖς αἰσχύνην ὀφλήσομεν, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων πάσης παρρησίας ἀφῃρημένοι.
Diespeiras autous. Eptaikotas hēmas phēsi, eis diaphorous apoikias epempsas; kai ei boulei pros hēmas krithēnai, ophtheiēs men autos dikaios, hēmeis aischynēn ophlēsomen, ex autōn tōn ergōn pasēs parrēsias aphę̄rēmenoi.
"You scattered them." When we had stumbled, he says, you sent us into various exiles; and if you wish to be judged with us, you will appear righteous, and we shall incur shame, deprived of all confidence by our very deeds.
Dan 9:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God justly scattered Israel, who stand ashamed.
- Scholion on Dan 9:7. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 15): Διέσπειρας αὐτηύς. Ἔπταικατας ἡμᾶς φησὶ, εἷς διαφόρους axouiag ἔπεμψας, καὶ ai βούλει πρὸς ἡμᾶς κριϑήνω, ὀξϑείης μὲν αὐτὸς δίκαιος, ἐμεῖς αἰσχυνον ὀφλησομῖν, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν ἰόγωυν πασης παῤῥησίας ὠφπρημένοι, → Διέσπειρας αὐτούς. Ἐπταικότας ἡμᾶς φησὶ, εἰς διαφόρους ἀποικίας ἔπεμψας· καὶ εἰ βούλει πρὸς ἡμᾶς κριθῆναι, ὀφθείης μὲν αὐτὸς δίκαιος, ἡμεῖς αἰσχύνην ὀφλήσομεν, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων πάσης παρρησίας ἀφῃρημένοι..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.5 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.6Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15
Τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ ἡμῶν οἱ οἰκτιρμοί. Ἀλλὰ τούτων φησὶν οὕτως ἐχόντων, ἐπὶ τὴν σὴν καταφεύγομεν φιλανθρωπίαν, ὁμολογοῦντες τὰ οἰκεῖα πταίσματα, καὶ οὔτε τῶν νομίμων ἐφυλάξαμεν, οὔτε παραινοῦσι τοῖς προφήταις ἐπειθαρχήσαμεν· οὐδεμίαν τοίνυν ὁρῶντες ὑποῦσαν δικαιολογίαν, τοὺς σοὺς ἀναμένομεν οἰκτιρμούς.
Tǭ kyriǭ theǭ hēmōn hoi oiktirmoi. Alla toutōn phēsin houtōs echontōn, epi tēn sēn katapheugomen philanthrōpian, homologountes ta oikeia ptaismata, kai oute tōn nomimōn ephylaxamen, oute parainousi tois prophētais epeitharchēsamen; oudemian toinyn horōntes hypousan dikaiologian, tous sous anamenomen oiktirmous.
"To the Lord our God belong compassions." But since this is so, he says, we take refuge in your love for humankind, confessing our own offenses: that we neither kept the ordinances nor obeyed the prophets who exhorted us; seeing, then, that we have no plea of justification left, we wait for your compassions.
Dan 9:9–10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel appeals to God's compassion, confessing Israel's disobedience.
- Scholion on Dan 9:9–10. The staged text broke this scholion at the page end; its continuation (staged as 9.7) is joined here and 9.7 is held. Greek restored from the page images (pp. 15–16).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a page end; text read afresh from the page images of Mai 1831, pp. 15–16): TS κυρίῳ 3e ἡμῶν οἱ οἰκτιρμοί, ᾿Αλλὰ τοῦτων φησὶ οὕτως ἐχόντων, ἐπι τὴν σὴν zaraptvyo- μὲν ξιλανθρωπίαν, ὁμολογοῦντις τὰ οἷκεῖα κταΐσ- → Τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ ἡμῶν οἱ οἰκτιρμοί. Ἀλλὰ τούτων φησὶν οὕτως ἐχόντων, ἐπὶ τὴν σὴν καταφεύγομεν φιλανθρωπίαν, ὁμολογοῦντες τὰ οἰκεῖα πταίσματα, καὶ οὔτε τῶν νομίμων ἐφυλάξαμεν, οὔτε παραινοῦσι τοῖς προφήταις ἐπειθαρχήσαμεν· οὐδεμίαν τοίνυν ὁρῶντες ὑποῦσαν δικαιολογίαν, τοὺς σοὺς ἀναμένομεν οἰκτιρμούς..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.6 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.8Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἐπῆλθεν ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς ἡ κατάρα. Ποία κατάρα αὕτη; βούλεσθε ἀναγνῶμεν αὐτήν; ἐὰν μὴ λατρεύσητε κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ ὑμῶν φησι, ἐπάξει ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἔθνος ἀναιδές, οὐκ ἀκοῦσαν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔσεσθε ἐν ἀριθμῷ βραχεῖς· τοῦτο γοῦν αὐτὸ δηλοῦντες οἱ τρεῖς παῖδες, καὶ δείκνυνται ὡς διὰ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν ἐξέβη τὸ τῆς κολάσεως εἶδος· καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἐξομολογούμενοι περὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἔλεγον, παρέδωκας ἡμᾶς εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν ἀνόμων, ἐχθίστων, ἀποστατῶν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.
Epēlthen eph᾽ hēmas hē katara. Poia katara hautē? boulesthe anagnōmen autēn? ean mē latreusēte kyriǭ tǭ theǭ hymōn phēsi, epaxei eph᾽ hymas ethnos anaides, ouk akousan tēs phōnēs autou; kai esesthe en arithmǭ bracheis; touto goun auto dēlountes hoi treis paides, kai deiknyntai hōs dia tōn ergōn autōn exebē to tēs kolaseōs eidos; kai autoi pros ton theon exomologoumenoi peri tōn koinōn hamartēmatōn elegon, paredōkas hēmas eis cheiras echthrōn anomōn, echthistōn, apostatōn, kai ta hexēs.
"The curse came upon us." What curse is this? Do you want us to read it? "If you do not serve the Lord your God," he says, "he will bring on you a shameless nation, which does not hear his voice, and you will be few in number." The three youths too showed this very thing, and it is shown that from their deeds the form of the punishment came about; and they themselves, confessing to God about the common sins, said: "You handed us over into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful apostates," and what follows.
Dan 9:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 28:49–50 (allusion, high confidence) · Deut 28:62 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The curse is that of the law, confirmed by the confession of the three youths.
- Scholion on Dan 9:11; Deut 28:47–62 (paraphrased); Prayer of Azariah 9 (Greek Dan 3:32). Greek restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): 'Ἔπηλθεν ἐφ' ὑμᾶς αὶ καταρα, Ilona κατώρα αὕτη: βούλεσθε ἀρώγσωμεν αὐτήν; ἐὰν px λατρούσητὸ χυρόν τῷ Sep. ἡμῶν φησι, ἐπάξω ἐφ' ὑμᾶς ἔϑνος ἀναιδίς' οὐκ ἀκούσης τῆς querit αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔσεσθε ἐν sp3as βραχεῖς τοῦτο γοῦν αὐτὸ δηλοῦντες οἱ τρεῖς παῖδες, καὶ διίανυνται ὡς διεὶ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν ἐξέ. βη τὸ τῆς κολώσιως doc καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸς τὸν Sed» ἐξομολογούμενοι πιρὶ τῶν κοινῶν ὠμαρτημάτων ὅλ. yor, παρέδωτας ἡμᾶς εἰς χεῖρας ἐχϑρῶν ἀνόμων, ἐχϑίστων, ὠποστατῶν. καὶ và ἑξῶς. → Ἐπῆλθεν ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς ἡ κατάρα. Ποία κατάρα αὕτη; βούλεσθε ἀναγνῶμεν αὐτήν; ἐὰν μὴ λατρεύσητε κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ ὑμῶν φησι, ἐπάξει ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἔθνος ἀναιδές, οὐκ ἀκοῦσαν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔσεσθε ἐν ἀριθμῷ βραχεῖς· τοῦτο γοῦν αὐτὸ δηλοῦντες οἱ τρεῖς παῖδες, καὶ δείκνυνται ὡς διὰ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν ἐξέβη τὸ τῆς κολάσεως εἶδος· καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἐξομολογούμενοι περὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἔλεγον, παρέδωκας ἡμᾶς εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν ἀνόμων, ἐχθίστων, ἀποστατῶν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς..
Extrabiblical texts: Pr Azar 9 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.8 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.9Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Κακὰ μεγάλα. Ποῖα δὲ ταῦτα; μητέρες παίδων ἐγεύσαντο· καὶ τοῦτο αὐτὸ προλέγει μὲν Μωϋσῆς· δείκνυσι δὲ ἐκβεβηκὸς Ἱερεμίας· ὁ μὲν γάρ φησιν ὅτι ἡ ἁπαλὴ καὶ ἡ τρυφερά, ἧς οὐκ ἔλαβε πεῖραν ὁ ποὺς αὐτῆς ἐπιβῆναι ἐπὶ τὸ ἔδαφος διὰ τὴν ἁπαλότητα καὶ τὴν τρυφερότητα, ἅψεται παρανόμου τραπέζης, καὶ τῶν ἐκγόνων ἀπογεύσεται τῶν ἑαυτῆς· ὁ δὲ Ἱερεμίας αὐτὸ τοῦτο δηλῶν, ὅτι ἐξέβη, ἔλεγε· χεῖρες γυναικῶν οἰκτιρμόνων ἧψαν τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν.
Kaka megala. Poia de tauta? mēteres paidōn egeusanto; kai touto auto prolegei men Mōÿsēs; deiknysi de ekbebēkos Hieremias; ho men gar phēsin hoti hē hapalē kai hē tryphera, hēs ouk elabe peiran ho pous autēs epibēnai epi to edaphos dia tēn hapalotēta kai tēn trypherotēta, hapsetai paranomou trapezēs, kai tōn ekgonōn apogeusetai tōn heautēs; ho de Hieremias auto touto dēlōn, hoti exebē, elege; cheires gynaikōn oiktirmonōn hēpsan ta tekna autōn.
"Great evils." What were these? Mothers tasted their children; and this very thing Moses foretells, and Jeremiah shows to have come about. For the one says that the tender and delicate woman, whose foot had not tried to step on the ground because of her tenderness and delicacy, will touch a lawless table and taste her own offspring; and Jeremiah, showing this very thing, that it came to pass, said: "The hands of compassionate women boiled their children."
Dan 9:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 28:56–57 (allusion, high confidence) · Lam 4:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The great evils include the famine in which mothers ate their children, foretold by Moses and recorded by Jeremiah.
- Scholion on Dan 9:12; Deut 28:56–57; Lam 4:10 (cited as Jeremiah). Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Κακὰ μεγάλα, Ποῖα δὲ τοῦτα ; μητέρες, παίδων ἐγεύσαντο᾽ καὶ τοῦτο αὐτὸ προλέγει μὲν Ma- σὴς δείχνυσι δὲ ἐπβεβηκὸς ᾿πρεμίας' à μὲν γάρ qu- σιν ὅτι καὶ ἁπαλή καὶ καὶ τρυφιρεὶ, $e οὐκ ἔλαβε αεῖραν ἃ ποὺς αὐτῆς ἐπιβῆναι ἐπὶ τό ἔδαφος διὰ τὴν ἀκαλύτητα χαὶ Té? τρυφότητα, ὄψεται σαρω. νάμου τραπέξος, καὶ τῶν ἐκγόνων ὠπογεύσεται τῶν ἑαυτῆς ἃ δὲ ᾿Περεμίας αὐτὸ τοῦτο δηλῶν, ὅτι ἐξέ. Pe, ἔλεγε χεῖρες γυναικῶν οἰκτιρμῴνων ὄψαντε và τίκνα αὐτῶν. . 9 → Κακὰ μεγάλα. Ποῖα δὲ ταῦτα; μητέρες παίδων ἐγεύσαντο· καὶ τοῦτο αὐτὸ προλέγει μὲν Μωϋσῆς· δείκνυσι δὲ ἐκβεβηκὸς Ἱερεμίας· ὁ μὲν γάρ φησιν ὅτι ἡ ἁπαλὴ καὶ ἡ τρυφερά, ἧς οὐκ ἔλαβε πεῖραν ὁ ποὺς αὐτῆς ἐπιβῆναι ἐπὶ τὸ ἔδαφος διὰ τὴν ἁπαλότητα καὶ τὴν τρυφερότητα, ἅψεται παρανόμου τραπέζης, καὶ τῶν ἐκγόνων ἀπογεύσεται τῶν ἑαυτῆς· ὁ δὲ Ἱερεμίας αὐτὸ τοῦτο δηλῶν, ὅτι ἐξέβη, ἔλεγε· χεῖρες γυναικῶν οἰκτιρμόνων ἧψαν τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.9 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.10Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Οὐκ ἐδεήθημεν τοῦ προσώπου κυρίου. Ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως φησὶ καὶ τούτων γεγενημένων, οὐδὲν ἀμείνους διετέθημεν τῶν ἡμετέρων ἁμαρτημάτων.
Ouk edeēthēmen tou prosōpou kyriou. All᾽ homōs phēsi kai toutōn gegenēmenōn, ouden ameinous dietethēmen tōn hēmeterōn hamartēmatōn.
"We did not entreat the face of the Lord." Yet even when these things had happened, he says, we were in no better state regarding our sins.
Dan 9:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Even after the disasters Israel did not repent.
- Scholion on Dan 9:13. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Οὐκ ἐδεήϑημον τοῦ προσώπου κυξίον, ᾿Αλλ' ὅμως φησὶ καὶ τούτων γεγινημένων,, οὐδὲν ἀμείνους διετέϑεμεν τῶν ἡμετέρων ἀμαρθεμάτων. → Οὐκ ἐδεήθημεν τοῦ προσώπου κυρίου. Ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως φησὶ καὶ τούτων γεγενημένων, οὐδὲν ἀμείνους διετέθημεν τῶν ἡμετέρων ἁμαρτημάτων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.10 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.11Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Καὶ ἐγρηγόρησεν ὁ κύριος. Οὐδέν φησι τῶν κακῶν τερπόμενος ὁ θεός, ἀλλ᾽ ἅγιός τε ὢν καὶ καθαρὸς τὸν τρόπον, προσιέναι αὐτῶν βουλόμενος, ἀπώσατο ἡμᾶς ἁμαρτάνοντας.
Kai egrēgorēsen ho kyrios. Ouden phēsi tōn kakōn terpomenos ho theos, all᾽ hagios te ōn kai katharos ton tropon, prosienai autōn boulomenos, apōsato hēmas hamartanontas.
"And the Lord watched." God, he says, taking no delight in evils, but being holy and pure in character, wishing to draw near to them, rejected us as we sinned.
Dan 9:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God, being holy, rejected Israel's sin.
- Scholion on Dan 9:14. The clause προσιέναι αὐτῶν βουλόμενος is obscure; translated by sense. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Καὶ ἐγρηγόρησεν 6 κύριος. Οὐδὲν φησι τῶν κακῶν τιρπόμενος ὁ Seq, dXX yg τὰ ὧν καὶ καϑαρὸς τὸν τρύσον, προσιέναι αὐτῶν βουλόμενος, → Καὶ ἐγρηγόρησεν ὁ κύριος. Οὐδέν φησι τῶν κακῶν τερπόμενος ὁ θεός, ἀλλ᾽ ἅγιός τε ὢν καὶ καθαρὸς τὸν τρόπον, προσιέναι αὐτῶν βουλόμενος, ἀπώσατο ἡμᾶς ἁμαρτάνοντας..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.11 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.12Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ὃς ἐξήγαγες τὸν λαόν σου. Ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως φησὶ τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων δέσποτα, ἐπειδήπερ καὶ πάλαι οἰκείᾳ ἀγαθότητι ἀπήλλαξας τῆς Αἰγύπτου δουλείας, οὐχ ἡμῶν ἀξίων ὄντων· ἡμάρτομεν γὰρ καὶ τότε, ἀλλ᾽ ἀγαθότητι οἰκείᾳ, μνήμῃ τε τῆς πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἐπαγγελίας· τὸν ὅμοιον τρόπον καὶ νῦν τῇ συνήθει φιλανθρωπίᾳ κεχρημένος σύγγνωθι ἡμαρτηκόσι, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπειδήπερ εἰσεπράχθημεν δίκας.
Hos exēgages ton laon sou. All᾽ homōs phēsi toutōn houtōs echontōn despota, epeidēper kai palai oikeią agathotēti apēllaxas tēs Aigyptou douleias, ouch hēmōn axiōn ontōn; hēmartomen gar kai tote, all᾽ agathotēti oikeią, mnēmę̄ te tēs pros tous pateras epangelias; ton homoion tropon kai nyn tę̄ synēthei philanthrōpią kechrēmenos syngnōthi hēmartēkosi, kai malista epeidēper eiseprachthēmen dikas.
"You who brought your people out." Yet, he says, since this is so, Master, since long ago too in your own goodness you freed us from slavery in Egypt, though we were not worthy (for we sinned then too), but by your own goodness and in memory of your promise to the fathers, in the same way now too, using your usual love for humankind, forgive those who have sinned, especially since we have paid the penalty.
Dan 9:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel appeals to the exodus as precedent for God's undeserved mercy.
- Scholion on Dan 9:15. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Ὃς ἐξήγαγες τὸν λαόν σου. ᾿Αλλ' ὄμνς Cu- ci τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων δέσποτα, ἐπτιδήπιρ καὶ παλαὰς οἰκείᾳ. ὠγαδότητι ἀσπῴλλαξας τὰς ÁiqvmTOV δουλείας, οὐχ ἡμῶν ὠξίων ὄντων ἡμάρτομεν yug καὶ Tof? , &JÀ' ὠγαθότωοτι οἰκείᾳ, μνήμη τε τῆς πρὸς «οὐ; πατέρας ἐκαγγιλίας' τὸν ὅμοιον τρύπον καὶ οὖν τῇ σθνόϑει φιλανϑρωπείᾳ κεχρημένος συΐγ- yre3. ἡμαρτηκοσι, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπειδησιρ εἶσε.- πράχϑημιν δίκας. → Ὃς ἐξήγαγες τὸν λαόν σου. Ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως φησὶ τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων δέσποτα, ἐπειδήπερ καὶ πάλαι οἰκείᾳ ἀγαθότητι ἀπήλλαξας τῆς Αἰγύπτου δουλείας, οὐχ ἡμῶν ἀξίων ὄντων· ἡμάρτομεν γὰρ καὶ τότε, ἀλλ᾽ ἀγαθότητι οἰκείᾳ, μνήμῃ τε τῆς πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἐπαγγελίας· τὸν ὅμοιον τρόπον καὶ νῦν τῇ συνήθει φιλανθρωπίᾳ κεχρημένος σύγγνωθι ἡμαρτηκόσι, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπειδήπερ εἰσεπράχθημεν δίκας..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.12 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.13Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεώς σου Ἱερουσαλήμ. Ἐπειδὴ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους περιελθών, οὐδένα ἑώρα δυνάμενον ἵλεω ποιῆσαι τὸν θεόν, πρὸς τὰ οἰκοδομήματα καταφεύγει, καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν προβάλλεται, καὶ τὴν ἐρημίαν αὐτῆς προτείνεται, καὶ ἐν τούτοις καταλύσας τὸν λόγον, ἵλεω τὸν θεὸν ἐποίησεν.
Apo tēs poleōs sou Hierousalēm. Epeidē tous anthrōpous perielthōn, oudena heōra dynamenon hileō poiēsai ton theon, pros ta oikodomēmata katapheugei, kai tēn polin autēn proballetai, kai tēn erēmian autēs proteinetai, kai en toutois katalysas ton logon, hileō ton theon epoiēsen.
"From your city Jerusalem." Since, going round the people, he finds none able to make God merciful, he takes refuge in the buildings, and puts forward the city itself, and holds out its desolation; and ending his words with these, he made God merciful.
Dan 9:16 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel appeals to God for the sake of desolate Jerusalem.
- Scholion on Dan 9:16. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): ᾿Απὸ τὸς πόλεώς σον ᾿μρουσαλήμ, ᾿Επειξὴ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους mipaASes , οὐδένα ἐέρα δυνάμενον Due ποιῆσαι τὸν ϑεὸν, πρὸς τὰ οἰκοδομήματα κα'- ταφιύγει, καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν προ ταὶ, καὶ φὴν ἐσημίαν αὐτὸς προτείνεται » καὶ ἐν τούτοις καταλυσας τὸν λόγον, bus τὸν ϑεὸν ἐποίησεν. → Ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεώς σου Ἱερουσαλήμ. Ἐπειδὴ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους περιελθών, οὐδένα ἑώρα δυνάμενον ἵλεω ποιῆσαι τὸν θεόν, πρὸς τὰ οἰκοδομήματα καταφεύγει, καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν προβάλλεται, καὶ τὴν ἐρημίαν αὐτῆς προτείνεται, καὶ ἐν τούτοις καταλύσας τὸν λόγον, ἵλεω τὸν θεὸν ἐποίησεν..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.13 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.14Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Νῦν εἰσάκουσον. Τουτέστι δέξαι τῆς δεήσεώς μου τὰ ῥήματα.
Nyn eisakouson. Toutesti dexai tēs deēseōs mou ta rhēmata.
"Now hear." That is, receive the words of my prayer.
Dan 9:17 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Daniel asks God to hear his prayer.
- Scholion on Dan 9:17. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Nov εἰσάκουσον, Τουεέστι δέξαι τῆς δεήσεως μὸν τὰ ῥήματα. → Νῦν εἰσάκουσον. Τουτέστι δέξαι τῆς δεήσεώς μου τὰ ῥήματα..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.14 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.15Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἄνοιξον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. Καὶ θεασάμενός φησι τήν τε ἡμετέραν ταλαιπωρίαν, καὶ τῆς πόλεως τὴν ἐρήμωσιν, ἐν ᾗπερ πρότερόν σοι τοὺς ὕμνους ἀνεπέμπομεν, ἐπινεύσειας δέσποτα εἰς πέρας ἀγαγεῖν τῆς ἱκεσίας.
Anoixon tous ophthalmous. Kai theasamenos phēsi tēn te hēmeteran talaipōrian, kai tēs poleōs tēn erēmōsin, en hę̄per proteron soi tous hymnous anepempomen, epineuseias despota eis peras agagein tēs hikesias.
"Open your eyes." And seeing, he says, both our misery and the desolation of the city, in which formerly we sent up hymns to you, deign, Master, to bring our supplication to its fulfilment.
Dan 9:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel asks God to look on the people's misery and the ruined city.
- Scholion on Dan 9:18. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): “Ανοιξον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. Καὶ ϑιασώμενος φησὶ τὴν τε ὅμετίραν ταλωιπωρίαν.,, καὶ τῆς πό- Aue τὴν ἐρήμωσιν, ἐν ἧπσιρ πρότερόν σον τοὺς ὕμνους ἀνιπίμπομεν, ἐπσεγινώφκοντίς σε ξέσεοτα εἷς figa; ἀγαγεῖν τὸς ἱκεσίας. → Ἄνοιξον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. Καὶ θεασάμενός φησι τήν τε ἡμετέραν ταλαιπωρίαν, καὶ τῆς πόλεως τὴν ἐρήμωσιν, ἐν ᾗπερ πρότερόν σοι τοὺς ὕμνους ἀνεπέμπομεν, ἐπινεύσειας δέσποτα εἰς πέρας ἀγαγεῖν τῆς ἱκεσίας..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.15 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.16Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Οὐκ ἐπὶ ταῖς δικαιοσύναις. Οὐκ ἀφ᾽ ὧν πράττομεν, ἵλεώ σε γενέσθαι βουλόμεθα, ἀλλ᾽ οἶκτον ἐπὶ ταῖς συμφοραῖς λαβεῖν ἐθέλομεν. — Τουτέστι μὴ ἀπώσῃ ἱκετεύοντας. — Ἀντὶ τοῦ συγχώρησον τὰ πταίσματα. — Τουτέστι θέασαι ἐν οἷς ἐξεταζόμεθα κακοῖς. — Τὸ δὲ τάχος φησὶ διὰ τὴν σὴν ἀγαθότητα παράσχου. — Ὥστε φησὶ τὸ σὸν ὄνομα ὀνομάζεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἔχειν χώραν τοὺς κατηγορεῖν βουλομένους τῆς σῆς δυνάμεως.
Ouk epi tais dikaiosynais. Ouk aph᾽ hōn prattomen, hileō se genesthai boulometha, all᾽ oikton epi tais symphorais labein ethelomen. — Toutesti mē apōsę̄ hiketeuontas. — Anti tou synchōrēson ta ptaismata. — Toutesti theasai en hois exetazometha kakois. — To de tachos phēsi dia tēn sēn agathotēta paraschou. — Hōste phēsi to son onoma onomazesthai, kai mē echein chōran tous katēgorein boulomenous tēs sēs dynameōs.
"Not on account of our righteousness." Not from what we do do we want you to become merciful, but we wish to receive pity in our misfortunes. — That is, do not reject us as we supplicate. — Meaning, forgive our offenses. — That is, deliver us from the evils by which we are tested. — And do it quickly, he says, through your goodness. — So that, he says, your name may be named, and those who wish to accuse your power may have no room.
Dan 9:18–19 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Daniel asks for mercy, not on the basis of merit, for the sake of God's name.
- Scholion on Dan 9:18–19. The staged text broke this scholion at the column end; its continuation (staged as 9.17) is joined here and 9.17 is held. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a column end; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Οὐκ ἐπὶ ταῖς δικαιοσυύναις, Οὐκ ἀφ' ὧν πρώς- vouas , Dau qv γινέσθαι βουλόμεθα, ἀλλ᾽ οἶκτον ἐπὶ ταῖς συμφηφαὶς λαβεῖν ἐθέλομεν, — Ἰουτίστι → Οὐκ ἐπὶ ταῖς δικαιοσύναις. Οὐκ ἀφ᾽ ὧν πράττομεν, ἵλεώ σε γενέσθαι βουλόμεθα, ἀλλ᾽ οἶκτον ἐπὶ ταῖς συμφοραῖς λαβεῖν ἐθέλομεν. — Τουτέστι μὴ ἀπώσῃ ἱκετεύοντας. — Ἀντὶ τοῦ συγχώρησον τὰ πταίσματα. — Τουτέστι θέασαι ἐν οἷς ἐξεταζόμεθα κακοῖς. — Τὸ δὲ τάχος φησὶ διὰ τὴν σὴν ἀγαθότητα παράσχου. — Ὥστε φησὶ τὸ σὸν ὄνομα ὀνομάζεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἔχειν χώραν τοὺς κατηγορεῖν βουλομένους τῆς σῆς δυνάμεως..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.16 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.18Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἔτι μου λαλοῦντος. Οὐ διήμαρτόν φησι τοῦ σκοποῦ, οὐδὲ ἀπέτυχον ἱκετεύων τὸν θεόν· διαλεγομένου μου οὖν τὰ προειρημένα, καὶ ὁμολογοῦντος τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ἐμαυτοῦ καὶ τοῦ πλήθους, καὶ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τὴν σωτηρίαν αἰτοῦντος, ἀπεστάλη πρός με ἄγγελος θεοῦ· ἐδόκει δὲ πετομένῳ· οὐ γὰρ εἶδε σχῆμα· τοῦτο λέγει, οὐχ ἵνα διδάξῃ πτερὰ ἔχειν τὸν ἄγγελον, ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα ἡμᾶς διδάξῃ, ὡς ταχεῖαί εἰσιν αἱ ἄνω δυνάμεις πρὸς τὴν διακονίαν τῶν ὑπὸ θεοῦ προστασσομένων.
Eti mou lalountos. Ou diēmarton phēsi tou skopou, oude apetychon hiketeuōn ton theon; dialegomenou mou oun ta proeirēmena, kai homologountos ta hamartēmata emautou kai tou plēthous, kai tę̄ tou theou philanthrōpią tēn sōtērian aitountos, apestalē pros me angelos theou; edokei de petomenǭ; ou gar eide schēma; touto legei, ouch hina didaxę̄ ptera echein ton angelon, all᾽ hina hēmas didaxę̄, hōs tacheiai eisin hai anō dynameis pros tēn diakonian tōn hypo theou prostassomenōn.
"While I was still speaking." I did not miss my aim, he says, nor fail in supplicating God; while I was saying what was mentioned, confessing my own sins and those of the multitude, and asking salvation by God's love for humankind, an angel of God was sent to me, seeming to be flying; for he says this not because he saw a shape, not to teach that the angel has wings, but to teach us how swift the powers above are in serving what is commanded by God.
Dan 9:20–21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Gabriel came swiftly while Daniel was still praying.
- Scholion on Dan 9:20–21. The staged text broke this scholion at the column end; its continuation (staged as 9.19) is joined here and 9.19 is held. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a column end; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Ἔτι μου λαλοῦντος, Οὐ διήμαρτον φεσὶ τοῦ exomoj, οὐδὲ dxítuyev ἱκετεύων τὸν Sav διαλεγο- → Ἔτι μου λαλοῦντος. Οὐ διήμαρτόν φησι τοῦ σκοποῦ, οὐδὲ ἀπέτυχον ἱκετεύων τὸν θεόν· διαλεγομένου μου οὖν τὰ προειρημένα, καὶ ὁμολογοῦντος τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ἐμαυτοῦ καὶ τοῦ πλήθους, καὶ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τὴν σωτηρίαν αἰτοῦντος, ἀπεστάλη πρός με ἄγγελος θεοῦ· ἐδόκει δὲ πετομένῳ· οὐ γὰρ εἶδε σχῆμα· τοῦτο λέγει, οὐχ ἵνα διδάξῃ πτερὰ ἔχειν τὸν ἄγγελον, ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα ἡμᾶς διδάξῃ, ὡς ταχεῖαί εἰσιν αἱ ἄνω δυνάμεις πρὸς τὴν διακονίαν τῶν ὑπὸ θεοῦ προστασσομένων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.18 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.20Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ Γαβριήλ. Ἵνα εἴπῃ ὃς ὤφθη μοι ἐν τῇ τοῦ κριοῦ καὶ τοῦ τράγου ὁράσει· ὃς καὶ ἡρμήνευσεν ἐν τοῖς τότε ἀποδειχθεῖσι τὰ ἀπορούμενα.
Idou anēr Gabriēl. Hina eipę̄ hos ōphthē moi en tę̄ tou kriou kai tou tragou horasei; hos kai hērmēneusen en tois tote apodeichtheisi ta aporoumena.
"Behold, the man Gabriel." To say: the one who appeared to me in the vision of the ram and the he-goat, who also interpreted then what was in doubt in what was shown.
Dan 9:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 8:16 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: This Gabriel is the angel of the earlier vision.
- Scholion on Dan 9:21. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Ἰδοὺ ἀνήρ Γαβριήλ. Ἵνα εἶστε ὃς ὦφϑε pe! ἐν τὴ τοῦ xpi καὶ τοῦ τρώγον ὁρώσεν[ ὃς καὶ ἐρμήνευσεν ἐν τοῖς εὖτε ἀποδειχϑεῖσι τὰ ἀκο- qoaa. → Ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ Γαβριήλ. Ἵνα εἴπῃ ὃς ὤφθη μοι ἐν τῇ τοῦ κριοῦ καὶ τοῦ τράγου ὁράσει· ὃς καὶ ἡρμήνευσεν ἐν τοῖς τότε ἀποδειχθεῖσι τὰ ἀπορούμενα..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.20 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.21Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ὡσεὶ ὥραν θυσίας. Τουτέστιν ἢ κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν καθ᾽ ὃν εἴρηται, ἢ καθ᾽ ὃν εἰώθεισαν τὰς θυσίας κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν ἐκπληροῦν τῷ θεῷ, ἡνίκα τὰ ἰουδαίων συνειστήκει.
Hōsei hōran thysias. Toutestin ē kata ton kairon kath᾽ hon eirētai, ē kath᾽ hon eiōtheisan tas thysias kata tēn hesperan ekplēroun tǭ theǭ, hēnika ta ioudaiōn syneistēkei.
"About the hour of sacrifice." That is, at the time when it is said, or at which they used to offer the sacrifices to God in the evening, when the affairs of the Jews were established.
Dan 9:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Gabriel came at the time of the evening sacrifice.
- Scholion on Dan 9:21. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): "Dow ὥραν ϑυσίας. Τουτέστιν d nati ti» χαι- (9 καϑ' ὅν εἴρηται, 9 καϑ' 3» οἰῴϑεισαν vé; Sv- σίας κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν ἐκεληροῦν τῷ θοῇ, dene td ἰουδαίων συνεστήπει. → Ὡσεὶ ὥραν θυσίας. Τουτέστιν ἢ κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν καθ᾽ ὃν εἴρηται, ἢ καθ᾽ ὃν εἰώθεισαν τὰς θυσίας κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν ἐκπληροῦν τῷ θεῷ, ἡνίκα τὰ ἰουδαίων συνειστήκει..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.21 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.22Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Σύνες ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ. Τουτέστι πρόσεχε τοῖς λεγομένοις τὰ νῦν. — Τουτέστι λόγισαι οἵων ἠξιώθης, ὥστε ἄγγελον ἀποσταλῆναί σοι διδάσκαλον τῶν ἀμφισβητουμένων.
Synes en tę̄ optasią. Toutesti proseche tois legomenois ta nyn. — Toutesti logisai hoiōn ēxiōthēs, hōste angelon apostalēnai soi didaskalon tōn amphisbētoumenōn.
"Understand in the vision." That is, attend to what is being said now. — That is, consider of what you were counted worthy, that an angel was sent to you as teacher of what is disputed.
Dan 9:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Gabriel calls Daniel to attend to the revelation.
- Scholion on Dan 9:23. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Iove ἔν τὴ ὀπτασίᾳ. Τουτέστι πρόσεχε voi λεγομένοις τῷ νῷ. — Τουτέστι λόγισαι οἷων ἡἠξιώ. ϑηξς, secre ἄγγελον ὠποστολῆναι σοι διδώσεαλον σῶν ὠμφισβητουμένων. → Σύνες ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ. Τουτέστι πρόσεχε τοῖς λεγομένοις τὰ νῦν. — Τουτέστι λόγισαι οἵων ἠξιώθης, ὥστε ἄγγελον ἀποσταλῆναί σοι διδάσκαλον τῶν ἀμφισβητουμένων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.22 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.23Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἑβδομήκοντα ἑβδομάδες συνετμήθησαν. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ διὰ τῶν προτέρων ὀπτασιῶν ἐγνώκει ὡς χείριστα πείσονται μετὰ τὴν ἄνοδον, εἰς ἀθυμίαν καταστὰς ἱκέτευε τὸν θεὸν μὴ μόνον αὐτοῖς παρασχεῖν τὴν ἄνοδον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάντα τὰ κατὰ ἰουδαίους αὐτῷ δεῖξαι· ἴδιον γάρ ἐστι τῶν πραγμάτων ἐθέλειν λαμβάνειν τῶν ἐσομένων τὴν γνῶσιν· διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ θεὸς ἐπειδὴ μάλιστα τοῦ ναοῦ ἐμνημόνευσεν, ἅπαντα αὐτῷ δείκνυσι τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα· ὅτι τε ἀνελεύσονται, καὶ ἐν πόσῳ χρόνῳ τὰ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς ἔσται τοῦ ναοῦ· πρὸς οἷς διδάσκει τὴν εὐστηρίαν τῆς πόλεως, καὶ μέχρι ποῦ στήσεται τὰ ἰουδαίων· ὡς ἂν εἰδείη ὅτι εἰ καὶ τὰ ἰουδαίων καθαιρεθείη, ἀλλ᾽ οὖν οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἕξει τέλος ἡ εὐσέβεια. Καὶ πάλιν. Τουτέστι υγ' ἔτη περιλέλειπται, ἄχρις ὅτου ὁ λαὸς τῆς οἰκείας δόξης ἐκπεσεῖται, καὶ ἡ πόλις καθαιρεθήσεται· κρείττονος δηλονότι καταστάσεως γινομένης, διὰ τὴν τοῦ μεγαλοδώρου θεοῦ χάριν· εἰδέναι δὲ χρή, ὡς τὸν χρόνον καθολικῷ τινι τέθεικε λόγῳ, ἐν τοῖς ἐφεξῆς διακριβῶν τὰ καθέκαστον.
Hebdomēkonta hebdomades synetmēthēsan. Epeidē gar dia tōn proterōn optasiōn egnōkei hōs cheirista peisontai meta tēn anodon, eis athymian katastas hiketeue ton theon mē monon autois paraschein tēn anodon, alla kai panta ta kata ioudaious autǭ deixai; idion gar esti tōn pragmatōn ethelein lambanein tōn esomenōn tēn gnōsin; dia touto kai ho theos epeidē malista tou naou emnēmoneusen, hapanta autǭ deiknysi ta meta tauta; hoti te aneleusontai, kai en posǭ chronǭ ta tēs oikodomēs estai tou naou; pros hois didaskei tēn eustērian tēs poleōs, kai mechri pou stēsetai ta ioudaiōn; hōs an eideiē hoti ei kai ta ioudaiōn kathairetheiē, all᾽ oun ouk epi toutois hexei telos hē eusebeia. Kai palin. Toutesti yg' etē perileleiptai, achris hotou ho laos tēs oikeias doxēs ekpeseitai, kai hē polis kathairethēsetai; kreittonos dēlonoti katastaseōs ginomenēs, dia tēn tou megalodōrou theou charin; eidenai de chrē, hōs ton chronon katholikǭ tini tetheike logǭ, en tois ephexēs diakribōn ta kathekaston.
"Seventy weeks have been decreed." For since he had learned through the earlier visions that they would suffer the worst after the return, falling into despondency he begged God not only to grant them the return but also to show him everything concerning the Jews; for it is natural, in affairs, to want to receive knowledge of what is to come. For this reason God too, since he had above all mentioned the temple, shows him all that follows: that they will go up, and in how long a time the building of the temple will be; besides which he teaches the … of the city, and how far the affairs of the Jews will stand; so that he might know that, even if the affairs of the Jews were destroyed, godliness would not have its end with them. And again: That is, … years remain until the people falls from its own glory and the city is destroyed; a better state clearly coming about through the grace of the bountiful God. But one must know that he has put the time in a general way, giving the details exactly in what follows.
Dan 9:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius explains that the seventy weeks reveal the course of Jewish history after the return, up to the destruction of the city.
- Scholion on Dan 9:24. Two readings are uncertain in the page image: the noun after διδάσκει τὴν (read εὐστηρίαν, perhaps for σωτηρίαν, "the safety" of the city), marked …; and the numeral of years (it seems to read υγ', 403; 490 would be expected from seventy weeks), also marked …. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): ᾿Εβξομήκοντα βδομάδες φυνετμήϑησαν. "Eso δῇ ydp διαὶ τῶν προτέρων ὀὁπτασιὼῶν ἐγνώκει ὡς xu- (oru πείσονται uavd τὴν ὥνοδον, εἰς ἀϑυμίαν κα- feci, ἵπκετευς τὸν ϑεὸν μη μόνον αὐτοῖς παρα» σχεῖν τὴν ἄνοδον, ἀλλὲ aai marta τὲ χανὰ ον. δαίους αὐτῷ δεῖξαι ἴδιον yep ἐστι τῶν σρεαγμάτων ἀϑέλειν λαμβάνειν τῶν ἐσομένων τὴν spon διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ ϑιὸς ἐπειδὴ μάλιστα τοῦ ναοῦ ἐμνημόνευσεν, ἅπαντα αὐτοῦ δείκνυσι τὰ μενὰ ταῦτα᾽ ὅτ, τὸ ἀὠνελεύσοντω , καὶ iv πόσῳ xpevy τὰ τῆς οἰκοδυμὴς icto: τοῦ ναοῦ πρὸς οἷς διδώσκι; τὴν εὐετηρίαν τῆς πόλιως, καὶ μέχρε «οὖ στήσεται τὰ ἰφυδαίων' wq ὧν εἶδείη ὅτε sí καὶ vd ἰοσδωῶνν παϑαιρεϑείη, ἀλλ' οὖν οὐκ ἐσὶ τούτοις ἔξει τέλος ἡ εὐσέβεια, Kal ev, Τουτέστι vy Pru sipialus- ταις ἄχρις ὅτου d λαός τῆς oinuiaq δόξης ἐκαεσεὶταις καὶ καὶ πόλις καϑαιρισϑησεται κρείττονος δηλο- »or: καταστάσεως γινομένης, διὰ vé» τοῦ μεγαλοδώρου ϑεοῦ χαριν᾽ εἰδέναι δὲ χρύς εἰς τὸν χρίνον καϑολικῷ τινὶ τέϑεικε όγμ᾽ ἐν τοῖς ἐφεξῆς διακριβὼν τὰ καϑέκαστον. → Ἑβδομήκοντα ἑβδομάδες συνετμήθησαν. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ διὰ τῶν προτέρων ὀπτασιῶν ἐγνώκει ὡς χείριστα πείσονται μετὰ τὴν ἄνοδον, εἰς ἀθυμίαν καταστὰς ἱκέτευε τὸν θεὸν μὴ μόνον αὐτοῖς παρασχεῖν τὴν ἄνοδον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάντα τὰ κατὰ ἰουδαίους αὐτῷ δεῖξαι· ἴδιον γάρ ἐστι τῶν πραγμάτων ἐθέλειν λαμβάνειν τῶν ἐσομένων τὴν γνῶσιν· διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ θεὸς ἐπειδὴ μάλιστα τοῦ ναοῦ ἐμνημόνευσεν, ἅπαντα αὐτῷ δείκνυσι τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα· ὅτι τε ἀνελεύσονται, καὶ ἐν πόσῳ χρόνῳ τὰ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς ἔσται τοῦ ναοῦ· πρὸς οἷς διδάσκει τὴν εὐστηρίαν τῆς πόλεως, καὶ μέχρι ποῦ στήσεται τὰ ἰουδαίων· ὡς ἂν εἰδείη ὅτι εἰ καὶ τὰ ἰουδαίων καθαιρεθείη, ἀλλ᾽ οὖν οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἕξει τέλος ἡ εὐσέβεια. Καὶ πάλιν. Τουτέστι υγ' ἔτη περιλέλειπται, ἄχρις ὅτου ὁ λαὸς τῆς οἰκείας δόξης ἐκπεσεῖται, καὶ ἡ πόλις καθαιρεθήσεται· κρείττονος δηλονότι καταστάσεως γινομένης, διὰ τὴν τοῦ μεγαλοδώρου θεοῦ χάριν· εἰδέναι δὲ χρή, ὡς τὸν χρόνον καθολικῷ τινι τέθεικε λόγῳ, ἐν τοῖς ἐφεξῆς διακριβῶν τὰ καθέκαστον..
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.23 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.24Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Τοῦ συντελεσθῆναι ἁμαρτίαν. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, φέρει αὐτοὺς ἕως εἰς ἔσχατον ἁμαρτίας ἐλάσουσι, καὶ ἀνίατον σχῶσι τὴν νόσον.
Tou syntelesthēnai hamartian. Anti tou, pherei autous heōs eis eschaton hamartias elasousi, kai aniaton schōsi tēn noson.
"To finish sin." Meaning, it carries them until they come to the extreme of sin and have an incurable disease.
Dan 9:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Israel would reach the full measure of sin.
- Scholion on Dan 9:24. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): Ἰοῦ συντελεσϑῆνοι ἁμαρτίαν. '᾿Αντὶ τοῦ, φέρει αὐτοὺς ἕως εἰς ἔσχατον ἁμαρτίας ἐλάσουσι, "καὶ ὦνίατον σχῶσι τὴν νῦσον. → Τοῦ συντελεσθῆναι ἁμαρτίαν. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, φέρει αὐτοὺς ἕως εἰς ἔσχατον ἁμαρτίας ἐλάσουσι, καὶ ἀνίατον σχῶσι τὴν νόσον..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.24 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.25Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Ἀπαλεῖψαι τὰς ἀνομίας. Ὃ δὴ παρέσχεν ἡμῖν διὰ τῆς τοῦ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας, καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἡμῖν παρέχει.
Apaleipsai tas anomias. Ho dē pareschen hēmin dia tēs tou loutrou palingenesias, kai dikaiosynēn hēmin parechei.
"To wipe away iniquities." Which he has granted us through the washing of regeneration, and he grants us righteousness.
Dan 9:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Titus 3:5 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius applies the wiping away of iniquities to baptism.
- Scholion on Dan 9:24; Titus 3:5. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 16): ᾿λεαλεῖψαι τὸς ἀνομίας, Ὃ δὲ παρέσχεν ἡμὶν Ld τῆς τοῦ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας , nal δικωοσύ. γῆν ἡμὲν παρέχει, → Ἀπαλεῖψαι τὰς ἀνομίας. Ὃ δὴ παρέσχεν ἡμῖν διὰ τῆς τοῦ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας, καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἡμῖν παρέχει..
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.25 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.26Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16
Σφραγίσαι ὅρασιν. Ἀντὶ τοῦ περαιῶσαι τὰ τῶν προφητῶν ὁράματα· ἀπὸ τῶν φησάντων, τὰ εἰρημένα σημαίνων.
Sphragisai horasin. Anti tou peraiōsai ta tōn prophētōn horamata; apo tōn phēsantōn, ta eirēmena sēmainōn.
"To seal vision." Meaning, to bring to completion the visions of the prophets: by "those who prophesy" signifying what was said.
Dan 9:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Sealing the vision means fulfilling the prophecies.
- Scholion on Dan 9:24. The staged text broke this scholion at the page end; its continuation (staged as 9.27) is joined here and 9.27 is held. Greek restored from the page images (pp. 16–17).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a page end; text read afresh from the page images of Mai 1831, pp. 16–17): Σξραγίσωι ὅρασιν. ᾿Αντὶ τοῦ φεραιῶσαι τὰ τῶν → Σφραγίσαι ὅρασιν. Ἀντὶ τοῦ περαιῶσαι τὰ τῶν προφητῶν ὁράματα· ἀπὸ τῶν φησάντων, τὰ εἰρημένα σημαίνων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.26 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.28Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17
Χρίσαι ἅγιον ἁγίων. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, τοῦ χρίσματος ἡμῖν μεταδοῦναι· ἅγιον δὲ ἁγίων ἔφη ὡς ὑπερβαίνοντος τούτου τὸν παρὰ ἰουδαίοις διὰ τοῦ χρίσματος ἁγιασμόν· ἢ ἵνα αὐτὸν χριστὸν σημάνῃ, χρίεσθαι αὐτὸν φάσκει τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι· διὰ τοῦτο γάρ φησιν ὁ Δαβὶδ ἔχρισέ σε ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου, τοῦτο ἐνταῦθα ἅγιον ἁγίων ἐκάλεσεν· οὐ τῷ συνήθει ἐλαίῳ χριόμενον τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξαιρέτῳ δυνάμει τοῦ πνεύματος· οὐκ εἶπεν ἁγίῳ ἁγίων, ἀλλ᾽ ἅγιον ἁγίων, αὐτὸν σημαίνων τὸν χριστόν, τὸν ἁγιασμοῦ μὴ δεόμενον, ἀλλ᾽ ἁγιασμοῦ χορηγὸν ὡς θεόν, χρισθέντα δὲ διὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν.
Chrisai hagion hagiōn. Anti tou, tou chrismatos hēmin metadounai; hagion de hagiōn ephē hōs hyperbainontos toutou ton para ioudaiois dia tou chrismatos hagiasmon; ē hina auton christon sēmanę̄, chriesthai auton phaskei tǭ hagiǭ pneumati; dia touto gar phēsin ho Dabid echrise se ho theos ho theos sou elaion agalliaseōs para tous metochous sou, touto entautha hagion hagiōn ekalesen; ou tǭ synēthei elaiǭ chriomenon tou theou, all᾽ exairetǭ dynamei tou pneumatos; ouk eipen hagiǭ hagiōn, all᾽ hagion hagiōn, auton sēmainōn ton christon, ton hagiasmou mē deomenon, all᾽ hagiasmou chorēgon hōs theon, christhenta de dia tēn oikonomian.
"To anoint a holy of holies." Meaning, to give us a share of the anointing; and he says "holy of holies" as this surpasses the sanctification among the Jews through the anointing; or so as to signify Christ himself, saying that he is anointed with the Holy Spirit; for this is why David says, "God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions"; this he here called "holy of holies": not anointed by God with the usual oil, but with the special power of the Spirit. He did not say "to the holy of holies," but "a holy of holies," signifying Christ himself, who needs no sanctification but is the giver of sanctification as God, and was anointed because of the dispensation.
Dan 9:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 45:7 (44:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius applies the anointing of the holy of holies to Christ, anointed by the Spirit for the dispensation.
- Scholion on Dan 9:24; Ps 45:7 (LXX 44:8). The Christological reading is translated as written. Greek restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 17.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 17): Χρίσαι ἄγιον ὠγίων. ᾿Αννὶ τοῦ, τοῦ γρίσματος ἡμῖν μεναδούνω (eis dd ὠγίων i£ ὡς ὑπερβαὶψυντος τούτον τὸν φψαρὼ ἑουδαίους διαὶ τοῦ χρίσματος ὠγιασμον καὶ ἵνα αὐτὸν χριστὸν Cuadro, xpi- σωσϑοι αὐτὸν φώσκιν τῷ yp ανιύματι' Là τοῦτο qao φησιν ὁ Δοβὶβ ἔχρισέ es ὁ ϑιός σὸν ἔλωον ὠγαλλιώσιως παρε τοὺς λοιπούς ἔφη. τοῦτο ἐνταῦ- Sa ἅγιαι ὡγίων ἐκάλεσε οὐ τῷ συνήϑει ἐλαίῳ yp. poo. τοῦ ϑεοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξαιρέτῳ δυνάμει τοῦ πνεύ. μφτος οὐκ εἶπεν ἀγίω ὠγίων, ἀλλ᾽ ἅγιον ἀγίωνν, αὖτὸν σημαίνων τὸν χριστὸν, τὸν ἀγιασμοῶ μὴ διό» μένον» ἀλλ᾽ ὠγιασμοῦ χορηγὸν ὡς ϑεὸν, χρισϑέντα δὲ διὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν, → Χρίσαι ἅγιον ἁγίων. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, τοῦ χρίσματος ἡμῖν μεταδοῦναι· ἅγιον δὲ ἁγίων ἔφη ὡς ὑπερβαίνοντος τούτου τὸν παρὰ ἰουδαίοις διὰ τοῦ χρίσματος ἁγιασμόν· ἢ ἵνα αὐτὸν χριστὸν σημάνῃ, χρίεσθαι αὐτὸν φάσκει τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι· διὰ τοῦτο γάρ φησιν ὁ Δαβὶδ ἔχρισέ σε ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου, τοῦτο ἐνταῦθα ἅγιον ἁγίων ἐκάλεσεν· οὐ τῷ συνήθει ἐλαίῳ χριόμενον τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξαιρέτῳ δυνάμει τοῦ πνεύματος· οὐκ εἶπεν ἁγίῳ ἁγίων, ἀλλ᾽ ἅγιον ἁγίων, αὐτὸν σημαίνων τὸν χριστόν, τὸν ἁγιασμοῦ μὴ δεόμενον, ἀλλ᾽ ἁγιασμοῦ χορηγὸν ὡς θεόν, χρισθέντα δὲ διὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν..
Topics: Christology, Anointing, confirmation, and laying on of hands
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.28 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.29Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17
Ἀπὸ ἐξόδου λόγου τοῦ ἀποκριθῆναι. Λέγει πῶς προσήκει καὶ πόθεν τὰς ο' ἑβδομάδας ἀριθμεῖν, τουτέστι τὰ υγ' ἔτη· ἀντὶ τοῦ σημειῶσαι ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἠρξάμην λέγειν, ἀποκρινόμενος πρὸς τὴν ἐρώτησιν· ἦν δὲ πρῶτον ἔτος Δαρείου τοῦ μήδου· μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ ἕν, ὡς ἐν αὐτῇ ἐπεσημήνατο ἡ θεία γραφή, τοῦ μετὰ Βαλτάσαρ βεβασιλευκότος ὡς δέδεικται. — Τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἕως χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου ἑβδομάδες ζ'· πρόκειταί φησι δύο διδάξαι, τὸν χρόνον τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομῆς, καὶ τὸν ἕως τῆς χριστοῦ παρουσίας· ἐντεῦθεν γάρ τις φησὶν ἀριθμῶν ἄχρις οὗ περαιωθῇ τοῦ ναοῦ ἡ οἰκοδομή, καὶ εὑρήσει ἔτη μθ'· αὐτοῦ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Δαρείου ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα τίθησιν ὁ προφήτης μόνον, διὰ τοῦ λέγειν ἔτει ἑνὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ· τὸ γὰρ ἓν λέγεται ὡς οὐκ ὄντος δευτέρου· διὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ τοῦ Βαλτάσαρ οὐχ ὁμοίως ἐχρήσατο τῇ φωνῇ· ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ γάρ φησιν ἔτει Βαλτάσαρ βασιλέως χαλδαίων· ὅπου μὲν γὰρ εὗρε δεύτερον, ἀναγκαίως πρῶτον εἶπεν· ὅπου δὲ δεύτερον οὐκ ἦν, ἁρμόζουσαν τὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς εὗρε λέξιν· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνο ἄν τις εἴποι, ὡς Μωϋσῆς τὴν πρώτην ἡμέραν μίαν κεκληκὼς ἥμαρτεν· ὡς γὰρ οὔπω οὐσῶν τῶν λοιπῶν ἡμερῶν, μίαν ἔφη τὴν ἐν ἀρχῇ γενομένην· τῆς δὲ ἑξῆς μνημονεύσας, δευτέραν αὐτὴν ἀκολούθως ἔφη· ὥσπερ γὰρ ταύτης οὐκ οὔσης, μία ἐκείνη ἐκαλεῖτο, οὐκ ἔχουσα τὴν πρὸς ἑτέραν συνάφειαν· οὕτως ἑτέρας παραχθείσης, ἡ πρώτη ἐλάμβανε τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, ἔχουσα τῆς γενέσεως τὰ πρεσβεῖα. Λογίζεται τοίνυν τοῦ Δαρείου ὁ προφήτης ἔτος ἕν· τὸ δὲ εὐθὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ κεῖσθαι ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει, ταραττέτω μηδένα· ὡς γὰρ ἐπιδιορθούμενος τῆς φωνῆς τὸ ἀδιάφορον, προσέθηκε τό, ἐν ἔτει ἑνί· ἢ εἰ δεῖ τὸ ἀκριβὲς εἰπεῖν, ἑρμηνεύων τὸ ἀδιάφορον τῆς λέξεως· ἀμέλει ἐπὶ τοῦ Βαλτάσαρ εἰρηκώς, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει Βαλτάσαρ, οὐκέτι προστέθεικεν ἐν ἔτει ἑνί· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Δαρείου, ἐπειδὴ πλὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς οὐκ ἠπίστατο, ταχέως τῇ προσθήκῃ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἐσαφήνισε τὸ πρὸς αὐτοῦ ῥηθέν. Κῦρον δέ φησι διαδέξασθαι τὴν ἀρχήν, ὃς ἀπὸ τῶν χρονικῶν φαίνεται βασιλεύσας ἔτη λ'· μεθ᾽ ὃν Καμβύσης ὀκτώ· μεθ᾽ ὃν οἱ μάγοι δύο ἀδελφοὶ ἐνιαυτόν· οὕτω γὰρ Ἰώσηπος τίθησιν ἐν τῇ ἑνδεκάτῃ αὐτοῦ ἱστορίᾳ τῆς ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας· μεθ᾽ οὓς τὸν Ὑστάσπου Δαρεῖον ἀπέδειξαν βασιλέα· ἀφ᾽ οὗ τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομὴ γεγένηται, ἀρξαμένη μὲν τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει, καὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν χρονικῶν σημασίαν, καὶ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ προφήτου Ζαχαρίου φωνήν, πληρωθεῖσα δὲ κατὰ τὸν ἔνατον ἔτος τοῦ αὐτοῦ Δαρείου κατὰ τὸν Ἰώσηπον· συλλογίζεται τοίνυν οὕτως τὰ μθ' ἔτη· καὶ φήσας τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τὸν χρόνον, λέγει καὶ ὅπως τὸν ἕως τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας ἀπαριθμεῖν δεῖ· λέγει δὲ οὕτως, καὶ ἑβδομάδες ξβ', καὶ ἐπιστρέψει καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσεται πλατεῖα καὶ περίτειχος, καὶ ἐκκενωθήσονται οἱ καιροί· πάλιν φησὶν ἀρίθμησον ξβ' ἑβδομάδας ἅπερ γίνεται ἔτη υλδ', ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἂν πλατεῖα καὶ μεγίστη ἡ πόλις γένηται ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ περιβολῆς. Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἀκριβῶς ἔφη, καὶ ἐπιστρέψει καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσεται πλατεῖα καὶ περίτειχος, τουτέστιν ἡ πόλις· τὸ δὲ ἐπιστρέψει, ἵνα εἴπῃ ὅτι μετὰ χρόνον τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομῆς τὰ τῆς πόλεως ἐγερθήσεται τείχη· καὶ γὰρ οὕτως συνέβη, ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ Κύρου τὸ θυσιαστήριον ᾠκοδομήθη μόνον, ἐπὶ δὲ Δαρείου ὁ ναὸς ἔλαβε πέρας· Ἀρταξέρξου δὲ τοῦ μακρόχειρος ἐπικληθέντος χρόνοις ὕστερον γενομένου, ἀφ᾽ οὗ Νεεμίας ᾔτησε κατὰ τὸ εἰκοστὸν ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας οἰκοδομῆσαι τὰ τείχη τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἐπιτραπεὶς ἐπεραίωσεν αὐτὰ κατὰ τὸ β' καὶ λ' ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας· καὶ μηνύει ταῦτα ἡ τοῦ Ἔσδρα γραφή· τοῦτο δὲ οὕτως ἔχον καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν χρόνων εὑρήσει τις ἄν, ἐὰν ἀκριβῶς σκοπούμενος ἐντεῦθεν τις ψηφίζων ἀπὸ τῶν χρονικῶν εὑρήσει υλδ' ἔτη περαιούμενα κατὰ τὸ λβ' ἔτος τῆς βασιλείας Ἡρῴδου· μνησθεὶς γὰρ τῆς προκειμένης ἱστορίας ἐν τοῖς χρονικοῖς Εὐσέβιος, τίθησι κατὰ τὴν πς' ὀλυμπιάδα, δευτέρου ἔτους τῆς αὐτῆς ὀλυμπιάδος, τὸ λβ' ἔτος τῆς Ἀρταξέρξου βασιλείας· φησὶ δὲ τὸν Ἡρῴδην βεβασιλευκέναι ρπς' ὀλυμπιάδι, κατὰ τὸ δ' ἔτος τῆς αὐτῆς ὀλυμπιάδος· ἅπερ συνάγεται ἔτη υβ'· τὰ δὲ ὑπόλοιπα λβ' ἔτη ψηφιστέον τῶν χρόνων τῆς βασιλείας Ἡρῴδου, μεθ᾽ ὧν ὁ δεσπότης χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα τεχθεὶς φαίνεται· τὰ μὲν γὰρ πάντα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν Ἡρῴδης λζ', φαίνεται δὲ κατὰ τὸ λβ' ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας τεχθείς· οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ὁ Εὐσέβιος συνάγει τὸν χρόνον· τούτων τοίνυν οὕτως ἐχόντων, σκοπητέον λοιπὸν τὰς λέξεις, ὅπως σύμφωνον τὴν ἔννοιαν ἔχουσι τοῖς ῥηθεῖσι.
Apo exodou logou tou apokrithēnai. Legei pōs prosēkei kai pothen tas o' hebdomadas arithmein, toutesti ta yg' etē; anti tou sēmeiōsai aph᾽ hou ērxamēn legein, apokrinomenos pros tēn erōtēsin; ēn de prōton etos Dareiou tou mēdou; mallon de to hen, hōs en autę̄ epesēmēnato hē theia graphē, tou meta Baltasar bebasileukotos hōs dedeiktai. — Tou oikodomēsai Hierousalēm kai heōs christou hēgoumenou hebdomades z'; prokeitai phēsi dyo didaxai, ton chronon tēs tou naou oikodomēs, kai ton heōs tēs christou parousias; enteuthen gar tis phēsin arithmōn achris hou peraiōthę̄ tou naou hē oikodomē, kai heurēsei etē mth'; autou men gar tou Dareiou eniauton hena tithēsin ho prophētēs monon, dia tou legein etei heni tēs basileias autou; to gar hen legetai hōs ouk ontos deuterou; dia touto epi tou Baltasar ouch homoiōs echrēsato tę̄ phōnę̄; en tǭ prōtǭ gar phēsin etei Baltasar basileōs chaldaiōn; hopou men gar heure deuteron, anankaiōs prōton eipen; hopou de deuteron ouk ēn, harmozousan tēn tou henos heure lexin; oude gar ekeino an tis eipoi, hōs Mōÿsēs tēn prōtēn hēmeran mian keklēkōs hēmarten; hōs gar oupō ousōn tōn loipōn hēmerōn, mian ephē tēn en archę̄ genomenēn; tēs de hexēs mnēmoneusas, deuteran autēn akolouthōs ephē; hōsper gar tautēs ouk ousēs, mia ekeinē ekaleito, ouk echousa tēn pros heteran synapheian; houtōs heteras parachtheisēs, hē prōtē elambane tēn epōnymian, echousa tēs geneseōs ta presbeia. Logizetai toinyn tou Dareiou ho prophētēs etos hen; to de euthys en archę̄ keisthai en tǭ prōtǭ etei, tarattetō mēdena; hōs gar epidiorthoumenos tēs phōnēs to adiaphoron, prosethēke to, en etei heni; ē ei dei to akribes eipein, hermēneuōn to adiaphoron tēs lexeōs; amelei epi tou Baltasar eirēkōs, en tǭ prōtǭ etei Baltasar, ouketi prostetheiken en etei heni; epi de tou Dareiou, epeidē plēn tou henos ouk ēpistato, tacheōs tę̄ prosthēkę̄ tou henos esaphēnise to pros autou rhēthen. Kyron de phēsi diadexasthai tēn archēn, hos apo tōn chronikōn phainetai basileusas etē l'; meth᾽ hon Kambysēs oktō; meth᾽ hon hoi magoi dyo adelphoi eniauton; houtō gar Iōsēpos tithēsin en tę̄ hendekatę̄ autou historią tēs ioudaïkēs archaiologias; meth᾽ hous ton Hystaspou Dareion apedeixan basilea; aph᾽ hou tou naou oikodomē gegenētai, arxamenē men tǭ deuterǭ etei, kai kata tēn tōn chronikōn sēmasian, kai kata tēn tou prophētou Zachariou phōnēn, plērōtheisa de kata ton enaton etos tou autou Dareiou kata ton Iōsēpon; syllogizetai toinyn houtōs ta mth' etē; kai phēsas tēs oikodomēs ton chronon, legei kai hopōs ton heōs tou christou parousias aparithmein dei; legei de houtōs, kai hebdomades xb', kai epistrepsei kai oikodomēthēsetai plateia kai periteichos, kai ekkenōthēsontai hoi kairoi; palin phēsin arithmēson xb' hebdomadas haper ginetai etē yld', aph᾽ hou an plateia kai megistē hē polis genētai ek tēs tou naou peribolēs. Dia touto kai akribōs ephē, kai epistrepsei kai oikodomēthēsetai plateia kai periteichos, toutestin hē polis; to de epistrepsei, hina eipę̄ hoti meta chronon tēs tou naou oikodomēs ta tēs poleōs egerthēsetai teichē; kai gar houtōs synebē, epi men gar Kyrou to thysiastērion ǭkodomēthē monon, epi de Dareiou ho naos elabe peras; Artaxerxou de tou makrocheiros epiklēthentos chronois hysteron genomenou, aph᾽ hou Neemias ę̄tēse kata to eikoston etos tēs autou basileias oikodomēsai ta teichē tēs poleōs, kai epitrapeis eperaiōsen auta kata to b' kai l' etos tēs autou basileias; kai mēnyei tauta hē tou Esdra graphē; touto de houtōs echon kai apo tōn chronōn heurēsei tis an, ean akribōs skopoumenos enteuthen tis psēphizōn apo tōn chronikōn heurēsei yld' etē peraioumena kata to lb' etos tēs basileias Hērǭdou; mnēstheis gar tēs prokeimenēs historias en tois chronikois Eusebios, tithēsi kata tēn ps' olympiada, deuterou etous tēs autēs olympiados, to lb' etos tēs Artaxerxou basileias; phēsi de ton Hērǭdēn bebasileukenai rps' olympiadi, kata to d' etos tēs autēs olympiados; haper synagetai etē yb'; ta de hypoloipa lb' etē psēphisteon tōn chronōn tēs basileias Hērǭdou, meth᾽ hōn ho despotēs christos to kata sarka techtheis phainetai; ta men gar panta etē ebasileusen Hērǭdēs lz', phainetai de kata to lb' etos tēs autou basileias techtheis; houtō gar kai ho Eusebios synagei ton chronon; toutōn toinyn houtōs echontōn, skopēteon loipon tas lexeis, hopōs symphōnon tēn ennoian echousi tois rhētheisi.
"From the going out of the word to answer." He says how one should proceed and from where one should count the seventy weeks, that is, the … years: in place of indicating "from when I began to speak," answering the question. It was the first year of Darius the Mede, or rather the one year, as divine Scripture itself noted, who reigned after Belshazzar, as has been shown. — "To build Jerusalem, and until an anointed leader, seven weeks": he sets out, he says, to teach two things, the time of the building of the temple and the time until the coming of Christ. For counting from here, one will find the years until the building of the temple was completed to be 49. For the prophet puts only one year of Darius himself, by saying "in the first year of his reign"; for "one" is said as there being no second. That is why for Belshazzar he did not use the same expression; for there he says "in the first year of Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans": where he found a second, he necessarily said "first"; where there was no second, he found the fitting expression "one." Nor would anyone say that Moses, calling the first day "one," erred; for since the other days did not yet exist, he called the one that came about at the beginning "one"; but, recalling the next, he consequently called it "second." For just as, when this did not exist, that one was called "one," having no connection to another, so, when another was brought in, the first received its name, having the seniority of origin. The prophet, then, reckons one year of Darius; and let no one be troubled that "in the first year" is set at the very beginning; for, as if correcting the indifference of the expression, he added "in one year," or, if one must speak exactly, interpreting the indifference of the term. Certainly in the case of Belshazzar, having said "in the first year of Belshazzar," he no longer added "in one year"; but in the case of Darius, since he knew of no more than one, he quickly made plain by the addition of "one" what he had said before. Cyrus, he says, succeeded to the rule, who from the chronicles appears to have reigned thirty years; after him Cambyses eight; after him the magi, two brothers, one year: for so Josephus puts it in the eleventh book of his history of Jewish antiquities; after whom they proclaimed Darius son of Hystaspes king, from whom the building of the temple came about, beginning in his second year according to the indication of the chronicles and the word of the prophet Zechariah, and completed in the ninth year of the same Darius according to Josephus. So he reckons the 49 years in this way. And having stated the time of the building, he also says how one must count the time until the coming of Christ; he says thus: "And sixty-two weeks, and it will return and be built, street and wall, and the times will be emptied." Again, he says, count sixty-two weeks, which make 434 years, from which the city became wide and very great through the enclosure of the temple. For this reason he also said exactly, "and it will return and be built, street and wall," that is, the city; and "it will return," to say that after the time of the building of the temple the walls of the city would be raised. And so it happened: under Cyrus only the altar was built; under Darius the temple was completed; and Artaxerxes, surnamed Longhand, coming later in time, from whom Nehemiah asked in the twentieth year of his reign to build the walls of the city, and, being permitted, finished them in the thirty-second year of his reign; Ezra's writing indicates this. And that this is so one will find from the times too: if, examining exactly, one reckons from the chronicles, he will find 434 years completed in the thirty-second year of the reign of Herod. For Eusebius, mentioning the history before us in his chronicles, puts the thirty-second year of the reign of Artaxerxes in the eighty-sixth Olympiad, the second year of that Olympiad; and he says that Herod reigned in the 186th Olympiad, in the fourth year of that Olympiad; which comes to 402 years; the remaining thirty-two years must be reckoned from the years of Herod's reign, in which the Master Christ appears to have been born according to the flesh; for Herod reigned thirty-seven years in all, and he appears to have been born in the thirty-second year of his reign; for so Eusebius too computes the time. This being so, it remains to consider the words, how they have a sense in agreement with what has been said.
Dan 9:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 7:1 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 1:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ezra 6:15 (allusion, medium confidence) · Zech 1:1 (allusion, medium confidence) · Neh 2:1 (allusion, high confidence) · Neh 6:15 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius works out the seven and sixty-two weeks: 49 years from Darius the Mede to the completion of the temple, and 434 years from Artaxerxes's thirty-second year to Christ's birth in Herod's thirty-second year, following Josephus and Eusebius's Chronicle.
- Scholion on Dan 9:25; Dan 7:1; Gen 1:5, 8; Ezra 3–6; Zech 1:1; Neh 2:1; 13:6; Ps 45. The staged text broke this long scholion over a column and a page (9.29–9.31); the continuation is joined here and 9.30 and 9.31 are held. The number of years for the seventy weeks is printed υγ' (403); 490 (υϞ') is expected, and the printed numeral may be a misprint; marked …. Josephus's account of the magi is in Antiquities 11 (Polychronius says the eleventh book). The chronology and its Christological application are translated as written. Greek restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 17.
Notes on the original text
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Tipo? οὐκ ἦν, ἀρμόξουσαν τὴν τοῦ ἀνὺς οὖσο λέξιν εὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνο ὧν τις εἶπκοι.» ὡς λίωῦσῆς τὴν πρώτὴν ἡμέραν. μέαν κέχληκεν' ὡς γὰρ οὖτν οὖσων τῶν λοιπῶν ὁμερῶν. pua» ἔξη τὴν ἐν ἀρχὴ γενομένην" τῆς δὲ iqild: μνημονυσας . διντέρων αὐτὸν dxo- λουϑες ipw ὥσπερ ydp ταῦτος οὐκ οὖσηξ . paa ἐκείνη ἐχαλεῖτο, eux ἔχουσα τὴν πες ἐκείνην σὺν- eua οὕτως. ὁτέρας παραχϑιίσης . τῆς πρντῆς ἐλώμβανε τὴν ἐσανυμίαν.. ἔχουσα τῆς γινέστως τὰ πεισβεῖα. Αυγίζεται τοίνυν τοῦ Δουριέεν 4 spoqu- φηὶ ἔτος ἦν' τὸ δὲ εὐθὺς ὧν sx xeig Sms dv te srperrw ἔτει. τορατεύτῳ μηδένα ὡς "ydq ἐχεξιορϑούμανος v9; φωνῆς τὸ ἀδιώξοβον. σροσέϑυκχε τὸ, ἂν ὅτει dvo ἡ εἷ δεῖ τὸ ἀκριβὲς εἰπεῖν. ἐρμηνονων τὸ uivagogor τῆς M- ξιως ἀμέλει disi τοῦ Βαλτάσαρ εἰφηκεὶς oiv τῇ πρώτῳ ἔτει βαλτώσαρ, οὐκέτε κρισέϑηκιν d» ὅτιε ἐν ἐξὶ δὲ τοῦ Δαρείου, ἐπειδή πλὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς οὐκ ἠπίστα. *t9 , ταχίως Ty προσϑηκη τοῦ ἑνός ἐσαφήνισε τὸ πρὸς αὐτοῦ ῥηϑέν. Κνρὸν δέ φησὶ διαδέξασϑαι τὴν ἀρχὴν. ὃς ὠπὸ τῶν γρονιχῶν φαίνεται βασιλεύσας ὅτῃ X μι8' d» Καμβύσης ἐκτω pa3' ὧν οὗ μώγοι → Ἀπὸ ἐξόδου λόγου τοῦ ἀποκριθῆναι. Λέγει πῶς προσήκει καὶ πόθεν τὰς ο' ἑβδομάδας ἀριθμεῖν, τουτέστι τὰ υγ' ἔτη· ἀντὶ τοῦ σημειῶσαι ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἠρξάμην λέγειν, ἀποκρινόμενος πρὸς τὴν ἐρώτησιν· ἦν δὲ πρῶτον ἔτος Δαρείου τοῦ μήδου· μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ ἕν, ὡς ἐν αὐτῇ ἐπεσημήνατο ἡ θεία γραφή, τοῦ μετὰ Βαλτάσαρ βεβασιλευκότος ὡς δέδεικται. — Τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἕως χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου ἑβδομάδες ζ'· πρόκειταί φησι δύο διδάξαι, τὸν χρόνον τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομῆς, καὶ τὸν ἕως τῆς χριστοῦ παρουσίας· ἐντεῦθεν γάρ τις φησὶν ἀριθμῶν ἄχρις οὗ περαιωθῇ τοῦ ναοῦ ἡ οἰκοδομή, καὶ εὑρήσει ἔτη μθ'· αὐτοῦ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Δαρείου ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα τίθησιν ὁ προφήτης μόνον, διὰ τοῦ λέγειν ἔτει ἑνὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ· τὸ γὰρ ἓν λέγεται ὡς οὐκ ὄντος δευτέρου· διὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ τοῦ Βαλτάσαρ οὐχ ὁμοίως ἐχρήσατο τῇ φωνῇ· ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ γάρ φησιν ἔτει Βαλτάσαρ βασιλέως χαλδαίων· ὅπου μὲν γὰρ εὗρε δεύτερον, ἀναγκαίως πρῶτον εἶπεν· ὅπου δὲ δεύτερον οὐκ ἦν, ἁρμόζουσαν τὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς εὗρε λέξιν· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνο ἄν τις εἴποι, ὡς Μωϋσῆς τὴν πρώτην ἡμέραν μίαν κεκληκὼς ἥμαρτεν· ὡς γὰρ οὔπω οὐσῶν τῶν λοιπῶν ἡμερῶν, μίαν ἔφη τὴν ἐν ἀρχῇ γενομένην· τῆς δὲ ἑξῆς μνημονεύσας, δευτέραν αὐτὴν ἀκολούθως ἔφη· ὥσπερ γὰρ ταύτης οὐκ οὔσης, μία ἐκείνη ἐκαλεῖτο, οὐκ ἔχουσα τὴν πρὸς ἑτέραν συνάφειαν· οὕτως ἑτέρας παραχθείσης, ἡ πρώτη ἐλάμβανε τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, ἔχουσα τῆς γενέσεως τὰ πρεσβεῖα. Λογίζεται τοίνυν τοῦ Δαρείου ὁ προφήτης ἔτος ἕν· τὸ δὲ εὐθὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ κεῖσθαι ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει, ταραττέτω μηδένα· ὡς γὰρ ἐπιδιορθούμενος τῆς φωνῆς τὸ ἀδιάφορον, προσέθηκε τό, ἐν ἔτει ἑνί· ἢ εἰ δεῖ τὸ ἀκριβὲς εἰπεῖν, ἑρμηνεύων τὸ ἀδιάφορον τῆς λέξεως· ἀμέλει ἐπὶ τοῦ Βαλτάσαρ εἰρηκώς, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει Βαλτάσαρ, οὐκέτι προστέθεικεν ἐν ἔτει ἑνί· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Δαρείου, ἐπειδὴ πλὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς οὐκ ἠπίστατο, ταχέως τῇ προσθήκῃ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἐσαφήνισε τὸ πρὸς αὐτοῦ ῥηθέν. Κῦρον δέ φησι διαδέξασθαι τὴν ἀρχήν, ὃς ἀπὸ τῶν χρονικῶν φαίνεται βασιλεύσας ἔτη λ'· μεθ᾽ ὃν Καμβύσης ὀκτώ· μεθ᾽ ὃν οἱ μάγοι δύο ἀδελφοὶ ἐνιαυτόν· οὕτω γὰρ Ἰώσηπος τίθησιν ἐν τῇ ἑνδεκάτῃ αὐτοῦ ἱστορίᾳ τῆς ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας· μεθ᾽ οὓς τὸν Ὑστάσπου Δαρεῖον ἀπέδειξαν βασιλέα· ἀφ᾽ οὗ τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομὴ γεγένηται, ἀρξαμένη μὲν τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει, καὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν χρονικῶν σημασίαν, καὶ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ προφήτου Ζαχαρίου φωνήν, πληρωθεῖσα δὲ κατὰ τὸν ἔνατον ἔτος τοῦ αὐτοῦ Δαρείου κατὰ τὸν Ἰώσηπον· συλλογίζεται τοίνυν οὕτως τὰ μθ' ἔτη· καὶ φήσας τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τὸν χρόνον, λέγει καὶ ὅπως τὸν ἕως τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας ἀπαριθμεῖν δεῖ· λέγει δὲ οὕτως, καὶ ἑβδομάδες ξβ', καὶ ἐπιστρέψει καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσεται πλατεῖα καὶ περίτειχος, καὶ ἐκκενωθήσονται οἱ καιροί· πάλιν φησὶν ἀρίθμησον ξβ' ἑβδομάδας ἅπερ γίνεται ἔτη υλδ', ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἂν πλατεῖα καὶ μεγίστη ἡ πόλις γένηται ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ περιβολῆς. Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἀκριβῶς ἔφη, καὶ ἐπιστρέψει καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσεται πλατεῖα καὶ περίτειχος, τουτέστιν ἡ πόλις· τὸ δὲ ἐπιστρέψει, ἵνα εἴπῃ ὅτι μετὰ χρόνον τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομῆς τὰ τῆς πόλεως ἐγερθήσεται τείχη· καὶ γὰρ οὕτως συνέβη, ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ Κύρου τὸ θυσιαστήριον ᾠκοδομήθη μόνον, ἐπὶ δὲ Δαρείου ὁ ναὸς ἔλαβε πέρας· Ἀρταξέρξου δὲ τοῦ μακρόχειρος ἐπικληθέντος χρόνοις ὕστερον γενομένου, ἀφ᾽ οὗ Νεεμίας ᾔτησε κατὰ τὸ εἰκοστὸν ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας οἰκοδομῆσαι τὰ τείχη τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἐπιτραπεὶς ἐπεραίωσεν αὐτὰ κατὰ τὸ β' καὶ λ' ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας· καὶ μηνύει ταῦτα ἡ τοῦ Ἔσδρα γραφή· τοῦτο δὲ οὕτως ἔχον καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν χρόνων εὑρήσει τις ἄν, ἐὰν ἀκριβῶς σκοπούμενος ἐντεῦθεν τις ψηφίζων ἀπὸ τῶν χρονικῶν εὑρήσει υλδ' ἔτη περαιούμενα κατὰ τὸ λβ' ἔτος τῆς βασιλείας Ἡρῴδου· μνησθεὶς γὰρ τῆς προκειμένης ἱστορίας ἐν τοῖς χρονικοῖς Εὐσέβιος, τίθησι κατὰ τὴν πς' ὀλυμπιάδα, δευτέρου ἔτους τῆς αὐτῆς ὀλυμπιάδος, τὸ λβ' ἔτος τῆς Ἀρταξέρξου βασιλείας· φησὶ δὲ τὸν Ἡρῴδην βεβασιλευκέναι ρπς' ὀλυμπιάδι, κατὰ τὸ δ' ἔτος τῆς αὐτῆς ὀλυμπιάδος· ἅπερ συνάγεται ἔτη υβ'· τὰ δὲ ὑπόλοιπα λβ' ἔτη ψηφιστέον τῶν χρόνων τῆς βασιλείας Ἡρῴδου, μεθ᾽ ὧν ὁ δεσπότης χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα τεχθεὶς φαίνεται· τὰ μὲν γὰρ πάντα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν Ἡρῴδης λζ', φαίνεται δὲ κατὰ τὸ λβ' ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας τεχθείς· οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ὁ Εὐσέβιος συνάγει τὸν χρόνον· τούτων τοίνυν οὕτως ἐχόντων, σκοπητέον λοιπὸν τὰς λέξεις, ὅπως σύμφωνον τὴν ἔννοιαν ἔχουσι τοῖς ῥηθεῖσι..
Extrabiblical texts: Josephus, Ant. 11 (Josephus (works); allusion); Chron. (Eusebius and Jerome, Chronicle; allusion)
Topics: Christology, Prophecy and fulfilment
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.29 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.32Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17
Τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι Ἱερουσαλήμ. Τουτέστι πρόκειται εἰπεῖν τὸν χρόνον τῆς οἰκοδομίας τοῦ ναοῦ, ὅσα ἐστὶν ἔτη ἄχρι τοῦ πληρωθῆναι αὐτὸν οἰκοδομούμενον.
Tou oikodomēsai Hierousalēm. Toutesti prokeitai eipein ton chronon tēs oikodomias tou naou, hosa estin etē achri tou plērōthēnai auton oikodomoumenon.
"To build Jerusalem." That is, he sets out to state the time of the building of the temple, how many years there are until it was completed in building.
Dan 9:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: This phrase gives the time of the temple's rebuilding.
- Scholion on Dan 9:25. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 17): ToS οἰκοβομήγαι ᾿"Ιορουσαλήμ, ΤἸουτέστι πρῦχειται εἰπεῖν τὸν χρόνον τῆς οἰχοδομίας τοῦ ταοῦς ὅσα ἐστὶν ἔτη ἄχρι soo πληρωϑῆναε αὐτὸν οἰκοδομούμενον. → Τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι Ἱερουσαλήμ. Τουτέστι πρόκειται εἰπεῖν τὸν χρόνον τῆς οἰκοδομίας τοῦ ναοῦ, ὅσα ἐστὶν ἔτη ἄχρι τοῦ πληρωθῆναι αὐτὸν οἰκοδομούμενον..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.32 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.33Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17
Ἕως χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου. Τουτέστι καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τοῦ ναοῦ πάλιν εἰπεῖν σοι βούλομαι τὸν χρόνον ἕως τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας· αὐτὸν γὰρ χριστὸν ἡγούμενον ἐκάλεσε· χριστὸν ὡς κεχρισμένον καθὼς προέφην· ἡγούμενον δὲ ὡς δεσπόζοντα τῶν ἁπάντων. Ἑβδομάδες ἑπτά. Τουτέστιν οὗτος ὁ χρόνος τῆς οἰκοδομίας, ἔτη μθ', ὡς δέδεικται.
Heōs christou hēgoumenou. Toutesti kai apo tēs oikodomēs tou naou palin eipein soi boulomai ton chronon heōs tou christou parousias; auton gar christon hēgoumenon ekalese; christon hōs kechrismenon kathōs proephēn; hēgoumenon de hōs despozonta tōn hapantōn. Hebdomades hepta. Toutestin houtos ho chronos tēs oikodomias, etē mth', hōs dedeiktai.
"Until an anointed leader." That is, from the building of the temple, again, I want to tell you the time until the coming of Christ; for he called him "anointed leader": anointed, as anointed according to what was said before; leader, as ruling over all. "Seven weeks." That is, this is the time of the building, forty-nine years, as has been shown.
Dan 9:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The anointed leader is Christ; the seven weeks are the 49 years of the rebuilding.
- Scholion on Dan 9:25. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 17): Ἕως χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου. ἵΤουτείστι καὶ ἀπὸ τὸς οἰκοδομὲς τοῦ ναοῦ Tau» εἰπεῖν qt« βούλυμαι τὸν χρύνον fug τοῦ χριστοῦ πορουσίας" αὐτὸν yep yeu τὸν ΨΨψνγούμετον ἐχαλσε᾽ χριστὸν ὡς κεχρισμένον καὶ ϑὼς προέθην' ἡγούμενον Ni ὡς δισπόζοντα τῶν ἁπτὸν φων. “Εβξομόδες ἱπτώ, Τουτέστιν οὗτος ὁ χρόνος τῆς οἰκοδομίας, iru 3 , ὡς δέδεικται. → Ἕως χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου. Τουτέστι καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τοῦ ναοῦ πάλιν εἰπεῖν σοι βούλομαι τὸν χρόνον ἕως τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας· αὐτὸν γὰρ χριστὸν ἡγούμενον ἐκάλεσε· χριστὸν ὡς κεχρισμένον καθὼς προέφην· ἡγούμενον δὲ ὡς δεσπόζοντα τῶν ἁπάντων. Ἑβδομάδες ἑπτά. Τουτέστιν οὗτος ὁ χρόνος τῆς οἰκοδομίας, ἔτη μθ', ὡς δέδεικται..
Topics: Christology, Anointing, confirmation, and laying on of hands
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.33 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.34Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Καὶ ἑβδομάδες ἑξήκοντα δύο. Τουτέστιν υλδ' ἔτη ἀριθμεῖται μέχρι τῆς τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας, ὡς εἴρηται. — Ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀριθμηθήσονται ταῦτα τὰ ἔτη, μὴ ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἀνῳκοδομήθη ὁ ναός, ἀλλ᾽ ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἂν τὸ τεῖχος γένηται τῆς πόλεως· διὰ τοῦτό φησιν ἐπιστρέψει, τουτέστι χρόνοις δὲ ὕστερον τὸ τέλειον σχῆμα ἀναλήψεται ἡ πόλις.
Kai hebdomades hexēkonta dyo. Toutestin yld' etē arithmeitai mechri tēs tou christou parousias, hōs eirētai. — Anti tou arithmēthēsontai tauta ta etē, mē aph᾽ hou anǭkodomēthē ho naos, all᾽ aph᾽ hou an to teichos genētai tēs poleōs; dia touto phēsin epistrepsei, toutesti chronois de hysteron to teleion schēma analēpsetai hē polis.
"And sixty-two weeks." That is, 434 years are counted until the coming of Christ, as has been said. — Meaning, these years will be counted not from when the temple was rebuilt, but from when the wall of the city is made; that is why he says "it will return," that is, later in time the city will receive its complete form.
Dan 9:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The sixty-two weeks run from the rebuilding of the city walls to Christ.
- Scholion on Dan 9:25. Greek restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): Καὶ ἑβδομάλες ἐξήκοντα loo. Ὑουτόστι v Iro ἀριϑμεῖται μάχρι τῆς τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας, ὡς εἴφηται, o— Asti. τοῦ ὠφδιϑμήσονται ταῦτα τῷ ἔτη, μὲ e$ οὗ ἀννκοδομηϑὴ ὁ ναός, ὠλλ᾽ &p' οὗ ὧν τὸ τεῖ- y9*6 γένηται τῆς πόλεως" διῶ τοῦτο φησὶν ἐπιστρί. Ve, τουτέστι χρόνοις δὲ ὄστερον τὸ τίλειον σχῆμα ἀνεληήψεται ἡ νόλες. → Καὶ ἑβδομάδες ἑξήκοντα δύο. Τουτέστιν υλδ' ἔτη ἀριθμεῖται μέχρι τῆς τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας, ὡς εἴρηται. — Ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀριθμηθήσονται ταῦτα τὰ ἔτη, μὴ ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἀνῳκοδομήθη ὁ ναός, ἀλλ᾽ ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἂν τὸ τεῖχος γένηται τῆς πόλεως· διὰ τοῦτό φησιν ἐπιστρέψει, τουτέστι χρόνοις δὲ ὕστερον τὸ τέλειον σχῆμα ἀναλήψεται ἡ πόλις..
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.34 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.35Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἐκκενωθήσονται οἱ καιροί. Τότε γάρ φησιν ἀναλωθήσονται οἱ καιροὶ οὗτοι οἱ προειρημένοι· τουτέστιν ὁ τῶν υλδ' ἐτῶν χρόνος· μεθ᾽ οὓς αὐτίκα χριστὸς τὰς ἐν ἀνθρώποις ποιήσει διατριβάς.
Ekkenōthēsontai hoi kairoi. Tote gar phēsin analōthēsontai hoi kairoi houtoi hoi proeirēmenoi; toutestin ho tōn yld' etōn chronos; meth᾽ hous autika christos tas en anthrōpois poiēsei diatribas.
"The times will be emptied." For then, he says, these times mentioned before will be used up, that is, the time of the 434 years, after which Christ will at once make his sojourn among men.
Dan 9:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: When the 434 years run out, Christ comes.
- Scholion on Dan 9:25. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): ᾿Βεκενωθήσονται οἱ zampe. Τότε yep Φησὶ ὧναλωθησονται οἵ καιροὶ οὗτοι οἱ προειρημίνει' τυυτέφ' vw ὁ tuv υλὲ ἐτῶν xeeroc μεϑ" οὖς αὐτίχα χριστὸς te ἐν ὠνθρώποις ποιῆσοι διατριβάς, → Ἐκκενωθήσονται οἱ καιροί. Τότε γάρ φησιν ἀναλωθήσονται οἱ καιροὶ οὗτοι οἱ προειρημένοι· τουτέστιν ὁ τῶν υλδ' ἐτῶν χρόνος· μεθ᾽ οὓς αὐτίκα χριστὸς τὰς ἐν ἀνθρώποις ποιήσει διατριβάς..
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.35 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-35). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.36Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἐξολοθρευθήσεται χρίσμα. Τουτέστι πᾶσα ἡ ἰουδαϊκὴ κατάστασις ἀφανισθήσεται· χρίσμα μὲν γὰρ λέγει τὸν ἱερέα τὸν κεχρισμένον· ὡς γὰρ Μωϋσέα καλεῖ τὸν νόμον, ἀπὸ τοῦ τεθέντος τὸ τεθὲν σημαίνων, οὕτω καὶ χρίσμα τὸν χριστὸν ἱερέα, ἀπὸ τοῦ μετεχομένου τὸν μετέχοντα γνωρίζων· ὁ γοῦν ἑβραῖος καὶ ὁ σύρος σαφῶς ἐξολοθρευθήσεται χριστὸς λέγει, τῇ μνήμῃ τοῦ ἱερέως συναιρῶν τὰς θυσίας. — Συμβήσεται δέ φησι ταῦτα ἰουδαίοις οὐχ ἅμα τοῦ πληρωθῆναι τοὺς καιροὺς τοὺς ἄχρι τῆς τοῦ χριστοῦ παρουσίας ὁρισθέντας, ἀλλὰ πλείστοις ὕστερον ἔτεσιν. — Ἵνα τὴν κατὰ ἰουδαίων διὰ τὰς αὐτῶν παρανομίας ἐμφήνῃ ὀργήν· τοὺς μὲν οὖν ἀμεταμέλητα πταίσαντας, ἔξω τῆς ἐπαγγελίας πεποίηκε, τρόπον δὲ σωτηρίας τῇ οἰκουμένῃ λυσιτελέστερον παρέδωκεν.
Exolothreuthēsetai chrisma. Toutesti pasa hē ioudaïkē katastasis aphanisthēsetai; chrisma men gar legei ton hierea ton kechrismenon; hōs gar Mōÿsea kalei ton nomon, apo tou tethentos to tethen sēmainōn, houtō kai chrisma ton christon hierea, apo tou metechomenou ton metechonta gnōrizōn; ho goun hebraios kai ho syros saphōs exolothreuthēsetai christos legei, tę̄ mnēmę̄ tou hiereōs synairōn tas thysias. — Symbēsetai de phēsi tauta ioudaiois ouch hama tou plērōthēnai tous kairous tous achri tēs tou christou parousias horisthentas, alla pleistois hysteron etesin. — Hina tēn kata ioudaiōn dia tas autōn paranomias emphēnę̄ orgēn; tous men oun ametamelēta ptaisantas, exō tēs epangelias pepoiēke, tropon de sōtērias tę̄ oikoumenę̄ lysitelesteron paredōken.
"Anointing will be destroyed." That is, the whole Jewish order will be done away with; for by "anointing" he means the anointed priest; for as he calls the law "Moses," signifying what was laid down from the one who laid it down, so too by "anointing" he makes known the anointed priest, from what is shared the one who shares in it. At any rate the Hebrew and the Syrian say plainly, "Christ will be destroyed," taking away the sacrifices together with the memory of the priest. — These things, he says, will happen to the Jews not as soon as the times fixed until the coming of Christ are fulfilled, but very many years later. — So as to show the anger against the Jews because of their lawlessness: those who stumbled without repentance he put outside the promise, but he gave the world a way of salvation more profitable.
Dan 9:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The cutting off of the 'anointing' means the end of the Jewish priesthood and order, long after Christ, because of their sin.
- Scholion on Dan 9:26. Polychronius reports that the Hebrew and the Syriac read "an anointed one (Christ) will be cut off"; his interpretation, including the statement about the Jews and the promise, is translated as written. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
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Topics: The church and Israel
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.36 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-36). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.37Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Κρίμα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, δικαστήρια καὶ ψῆφοι καὶ νόμοι· ἅπερ πάντα τὴν βασιλικὴν εὐταξίαν δείκνυσι καὶ τὴν πολιτικὴν κατάστασιν.
Krima ouk estin en autǭ. Anti tou, dikastēria kai psēphoi kai nomoi; haper panta tēn basilikēn eutaxian deiknysi kai tēn politikēn katastasin.
"There will be no judgment in it." Meaning: law courts, votes, and laws; which all show the royal good order and the civil constitution.
Dan 9:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The end of 'judgment' means the end of Jewish courts and civil order.
- Scholion on Dan 9:26 (Theodotion). Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): Κρίμα οὐκ ἔσειν ἐν αὐτῶ, ᾿Αντὶ τοῦ, δικαστηρια καὶ ψῆροι καὶ νομϑι' ὥπερ ποντα τὴν βασιλυκὴν εὖ" ταξίαν δείκνυσιν καὶ τὴν πολιτικὴν κατάστασιν. → Κρίμα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, δικαστήρια καὶ ψῆφοι καὶ νόμοι· ἅπερ πάντα τὴν βασιλικὴν εὐταξίαν δείκνυσι καὶ τὴν πολιτικὴν κατάστασιν..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.37 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-37). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.38Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἐκκοπήσονται ἐν κατακλυσμῷ. Οὐδὲν τῇ δυνάμει διαλλάττειν νομίζω τῆς προφητικῆς φωνῆς τὴν τοῦ κυρίου ἀπόφασιν· ὅτι γὰρ προφήτης ἐκκοπήσονταί φησι, πρόρριζον αὐτῶν ἀπώλειαν δηλῶν· καὶ ὁ κύριος μὴ μένειν λίθον ἐπὶ λίθον ἀπεφήνατο, τὴν κατὰ κράτος τῶν πολεμίων διδάσκων ἰσχύν. — Οὕτως γὰρ αὐτῶν κατὰ κράτος οἱ πολέμιοι περιέσονται ὥστε μηδὲ ἐλπίδας αὐτοῖς ἀναστάσεως ὑπολείπεσθαι· τὸ γὰρ ἕως τέλους, δηλοῖ τὴν παντελῆ ἀπώλειαν· τὸ δὲ ἀφανισμοῦ, τὸ μηδὲ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν ὁρᾶσθαι τῆς προτέρου εὐημερίας.
Ekkopēsontai en kataklysmǭ. Ouden tę̄ dynamei diallattein nomizō tēs prophētikēs phōnēs tēn tou kyriou apophasin; hoti gar prophētēs ekkopēsontai phēsi, prorrizon autōn apōleian dēlōn; kai ho kyrios mē menein lithon epi lithon apephēnato, tēn kata kratos tōn polemiōn didaskōn ischyn. — Houtōs gar autōn kata kratos hoi polemioi periesontai hōste mēde elpidas autois anastaseōs hypoleipesthai; to gar heōs telous, dēloi tēn pantelē apōleian; to de aphanismou, to mēde mnēmosynon autōn horasthai tēs proterou euēmerias.
"They will be cut off in a flood." I think that the Lord's declaration differs in no way in force from the prophetic word; for the prophet, saying "they will be cut off," makes plain their destruction from the root; and the Lord, declaring that not a stone would remain upon a stone, teaches the strength of the enemies by force. — For the enemies will prevail over them by force so that no hope of recovery is left them; for "until the end" makes plain the complete destruction, and "of disappearance," that not even a memory of their former prosperity is seen.
Dan 9:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 24:2 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The 'flood' is the complete destruction of Jerusalem, as Christ foretold.
- Scholion on Dan 9:26; Matt 24:2. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): ᾿Ἐκαοσήσονται ἐν κατακλυσμῷ. Οὐδέν τῇ δυνάμει διαλλάττειν νομίζει τὸς φροφητιδῆς φωνὴς τὴν τοῦ χυρίου ἐπόθασιν᾽ ὅτε γὰρ σροζητης ἐεχοπηήσονταὶ φη- ci , προῤῥιξον αὐτῶν ὠκύλειαν δηλῶν καὶ ᾧ κύριος μὴ μένειν όέϑον ἐσὶ λίϑον ὠσεξηνστο, τὴν χατὰ nje- τος τῶν πολεμίων Diae ἰσχύν. τα Οὕτως veo ad- vw? κατὰ χρώτος οἱ πολίμιοι περιέσονται ὥστι μὴ δὲ ἐλείδα; αὐτοῖς ἀναλτήσεως ὑπολείπεσθαν τὸ γὰρ ἕως τέλους, δηλοὶ τὴν. ναστιλὰ aveo» τὸ δὲ ἀξανισ. μοῦ, τὸ py δὲ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν ἐφρῶσϑαι τὰς πρό" fi99» εὐημερίας. → Ἐκκοπήσονται ἐν κατακλυσμῷ. Οὐδὲν τῇ δυνάμει διαλλάττειν νομίζω τῆς προφητικῆς φωνῆς τὴν τοῦ κυρίου ἀπόφασιν· ὅτι γὰρ προφήτης ἐκκοπήσονταί φησι, πρόρριζον αὐτῶν ἀπώλειαν δηλῶν· καὶ ὁ κύριος μὴ μένειν λίθον ἐπὶ λίθον ἀπεφήνατο, τὴν κατὰ κράτος τῶν πολεμίων διδάσκων ἰσχύν. — Οὕτως γὰρ αὐτῶν κατὰ κράτος οἱ πολέμιοι περιέσονται ὥστε μηδὲ ἐλπίδας αὐτοῖς ἀναστάσεως ὑπολείπεσθαι· τὸ γὰρ ἕως τέλους, δηλοῖ τὴν παντελῆ ἀπώλειαν· τὸ δὲ ἀφανισμοῦ, τὸ μηδὲ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν ὁρᾶσθαι τῆς προτέρου εὐημερίας..
Topics: Eschatology, Prophecy and fulfilment
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.38 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-38). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.39Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Δυναμώσει διαθήκην. Ἀκριβέστατον δὲ εἶπε τὸ δυναμώσει· ἐπειδὴ πρὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ παρουσίας ἐν ἐπαγγελίαις ἦν τὰ ἀγαθά· ταῦτα οὖν φησιν αὐτὸς παραγενόμενος βεβαιώσει· καὶ ἔσται ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς πιστοῖς συνθήκη ἀσφαλής τε καὶ ἰσχυρά, παρ᾽ οὐδενὸς σαλευθῆναι μὴ δυναμένη, οὐδὲ ληψομένη μεταβολήν.
Dynamōsei diathēkēn. Akribestaton de eipe to dynamōsei; epeidē pro tēs autou parousias en epangeliais ēn ta agatha; tauta oun phēsin autos paragenomenos bebaiōsei; kai estai hē epi tois pistois synthēkē asphalēs te kai ischyra, par᾽ oudenos saleuthēnai mē dynamenē, oude lēpsomenē metabolēn.
"He will strengthen a covenant." "He will strengthen" is said most exactly; since before his coming it was in promises, these good things, he says, he himself will confirm by his coming; and the covenant with the faithful will be secure and strong, unable to be shaken by anyone, nor to receive change.
Dan 9:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ will confirm the covenant promised before his coming.
- Scholion on Dan 9:27. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): Δυναμώσω διοϑήκην, ᾿Ακριβέστατον δὲ εἶσι τὸ δυναμώσει ἐπειδῷ πρὸ τὰς αὐτοῦ παρουσίας ἐν ἐπυγγελίως ἣν τὰ yea ταῦτα οὖν φησιν αὐτὸς πωρωγενόμενος βεβαινφει καὶ ἔστω καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς wc στοῖς συνϑήλη ἀσξαλης τὲ καὶ ἐεχυρα, παρ᾽ οὐδε. νὸς σαλουϑήναι μη δυναμένη, οὐ δὲ ληψομένη με- fefe. → Δυναμώσει διαθήκην. Ἀκριβέστατον δὲ εἶπε τὸ δυναμώσει· ἐπειδὴ πρὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ παρουσίας ἐν ἐπαγγελίαις ἦν τὰ ἀγαθά· ταῦτα οὖν φησιν αὐτὸς παραγενόμενος βεβαιώσει· καὶ ἔσται ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς πιστοῖς συνθήκη ἀσφαλής τε καὶ ἰσχυρά, παρ᾽ οὐδενὸς σαλευθῆναι μὴ δυναμένη, οὐδὲ ληψομένη μεταβολήν..
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.39 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-39). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
9.40Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἐν τῷ ἡμίσει τῆς ἑβδομάδος. Τὸν χρόνον λέγει ἐν ᾧπερ ὁ χριστὸς διδάσκων διετέλεσε· τοσοῦτον κατ᾽ αὐτὸν φήσας, ὅσον ἐνεδέχετο προφητεύοντα εἰπεῖν· διαθήκην μὲν λέγει τὴν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς ἀνθρώπους συνθήκην· τοῦτο γὰρ ἔθος τῇ θείᾳ γραφῇ, ὡς Ἱερεμίας λέγει, ἰδοὺ διαθήσομαι ὑμῖν διαθήκην αἰώνιον καινήν. — Τούτων γάρ φησι γινομένων, βεβαιωθήσεται ἡ χριστοῦ ἐπαγγελία, ἡ πρὸς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· ὅπερ πεποίηκεν ὁ χριστὸς ἐν τῷ ἡμίσει τῆς ἑβδομάδος, αὐτός τε παραγενόμενος, καὶ τοὺς οἰκείους ἐκθέμενος νόμους, καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑποστὰς θάνατον, καὶ παύσας τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ χαρισάμενος τὴν ἀνάστασιν, καὶ δοὺς ἡμῖν τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν τὸν ἀρραβῶνα. — Εὔδηλον ὡς τοῦ χριστοῦ λέγει τὴν μετὰ ἀνθρώπων διαγωγήν, ἐν ᾗ τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἐξελέξατο, καὶ διδάσκων ἰουδαίους τε καὶ δι᾽ ἐκείνων ἅπαντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν τελειοτάτην εὐσέβειαν.
En tǭ hēmisei tēs hebdomados. Ton chronon legei en hǭper ho christos didaskōn dietelese; tosouton kat᾽ auton phēsas, hoson enedecheto prophēteuonta eipein; diathēkēn men legei tēn para tou theou eis anthrōpous synthēkēn; touto gar ethos tę̄ theią graphę̄, hōs Hieremias legei, idou diathēsomai hymin diathēkēn aiōnion kainēn. — Toutōn gar phēsi ginomenōn, bebaiōthēsetai hē christou epangelia, hē pros panta ta ethnē; hoper pepoiēken ho christos en tǭ hēmisei tēs hebdomados, autos te paragenomenos, kai tous oikeious ekthemenos nomous, kai ton hyper hēmōn hypostas thanaton, kai pausas tēn hamartian, kai charisamenos tēn anastasin, kai dous hēmin tōn mellontōn agathōn ton arrabōna. — Eudēlon hōs tou christou legei tēn meta anthrōpōn diagōgēn, en hę̄ tous apostolous exelexato, kai didaskōn ioudaious te kai di᾽ ekeinōn hapantas tous loipous tēn teleiotatēn eusebeian.
"In the half of the week." He means the time in which Christ completed his teaching, having said as much about it as was allowed one prophesying to say. By "covenant" he means the compact of God with men; for this is the custom of divine Scripture, as Jeremiah says, "Behold, I will make with you an eternal, new covenant." — For when these things happen, he says, the promise of Christ will be confirmed, made to all the nations; which Christ did in the half of the week, both coming himself and setting out his own laws, and undergoing death for us, and putting an end to sin, and granting the resurrection, and giving us the pledge of the good things to come. — It is clear that he means Christ's life among men, in which he chose the apostles and taught the Jews, and through them all the rest, the most perfect godliness.
Dan 9:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 31:31 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 32:40 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The half-week is Christ's ministry, in which he confirmed the new covenant by his death and resurrection.
- Scholion on Dan 9:27; Jer 31:31 / 32:40. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): Ἐν «τῇ dan τῆς ἑβδομάδος. Τὸν xtorvo λόγοι ἐν map ὁ χριστὸς διδώσκων διατελέσού, τοσοῦτον nav αὐτὸν φήσας. ὅσον ἐνεβέχοτο spopursserrm εἰπεῖν" διωϑήκην μὲν λέγοι τὴν σωρὰ τοῦ ϑιοὺ οἷς d»3pe- ποὺς συνθήκην τοῦτο γὰρ ἦϑος τῇ Sep γραφὴ. ὡς “ρεμίας λέγει, ios διαϑήσομαι ὑμῖν διαϑύκην αἰώϑύήσιται αὶ χριστοῦ ἐπαγγελία, $ spé; mota τὰ ἦϑυη ὅπερ πεποίηκεν ὁ χριστὸφ i» τὼ dpion τῆς iBepale(, αὐτὸς τε παραγενόμενος, καὶ τούς οἷχείους ἐκϑεμενὸς νόμους, καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑκοστας ϑάνωτον, nai παύσας τὴν emptis? , καὶ yapean- μενος τὴν ἀνάστασιν, καὶ δοὺς ἡμῖν τῶν μελλώτων ὠγαδθῶν τὸν ὠῤῥαβῶνα, — Εὔδηλον ὡς τοῦ χμστοῦ λέγει τὴν patd ἀνθρώπων διωγωγὴν. ἐν ἡ τοὺς ὧσοστφλους ἐξιλέξατο, καὶ διξάφεων ἰουδαίους τὶ καὶ δι ἐκείνων ἄκαντα; τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν τελιιοτάτην εὖσέν Bua. → Ἐν τῷ ἡμίσει τῆς ἑβδομάδος. Τὸν χρόνον λέγει ἐν ᾧπερ ὁ χριστὸς διδάσκων διετέλεσε· τοσοῦτον κατ᾽ αὐτὸν φήσας, ὅσον ἐνεδέχετο προφητεύοντα εἰπεῖν· διαθήκην μὲν λέγει τὴν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς ἀνθρώπους συνθήκην· τοῦτο γὰρ ἔθος τῇ θείᾳ γραφῇ, ὡς Ἱερεμίας λέγει, ἰδοὺ διαθήσομαι ὑμῖν διαθήκην αἰώνιον καινήν. — Τούτων γάρ φησι γινομένων, βεβαιωθήσεται ἡ χριστοῦ ἐπαγγελία, ἡ πρὸς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· ὅπερ πεποίηκεν ὁ χριστὸς ἐν τῷ ἡμίσει τῆς ἑβδομάδος, αὐτός τε παραγενόμενος, καὶ τοὺς οἰκείους ἐκθέμενος νόμους, καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑποστὰς θάνατον, καὶ παύσας τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ χαρισάμενος τὴν ἀνάστασιν, καὶ δοὺς ἡμῖν τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν τὸν ἀρραβῶνα. — Εὔδηλον ὡς τοῦ χριστοῦ λέγει τὴν μετὰ ἀνθρώπων διαγωγήν, ἐν ᾗ τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἐξελέξατο, καὶ διδάσκων ἰουδαίους τε καὶ δι᾽ ἐκείνων ἅπαντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν τελειοτάτην εὐσέβειαν..
Topics: Christology, The church and Israel
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 9.40 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/9-40). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
Chapter 10
10.1Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἐν ἔτει πρώτῳ Κύρου βασιλέως. Πρόκειται μὲν αὐτῷ τὰ παρὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου γνωρισθέντα διηγήσασθαι· χρῆται δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὸ παρὸν τῷ ἰδιώματι τῆς γραφῆς· οὐ γὰρ πρότερον τὸ κατὰ μέρος λέγει, πρὶν ἢ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ περιλάβῃ τὸν ὅλων τὸν νοῦν· οὐ γὰρ ἔφη τι ἀπεκαλύφθη, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι λόγος· ἄριστον τέως ποιούμενος τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἀφήγησιν.
En etei prōtǭ Kyrou basileōs. Prokeitai men autǭ ta para tou angelou gnōristhenta diēgēsasthai; chrētai de kai kata to paron tǭ idiōmati tēs graphēs; ou gar proteron to kata meros legei, prin ē en kephalaiǭ perilabę̄ ton holōn ton noun; ou gar ephē ti apekalyphthē, all᾽ hoti logos; ariston teōs poioumenos tōn pragmatōn tēn aphēgēsin.
"In the first year of Cyrus the king." It was set before him to narrate what was made known by the angel; but here too he uses the manner of Scripture; for he does not first speak in detail before he has gathered the sense of the whole in a summary; for he does not say what was revealed, but that a word was revealed, making the account of the events orderly.
Dan 10:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel first summarizes the revelation before giving its details.
- Scholion on Dan 10:1. Mai's footnote on the reading "first" (for "third") in this lemma, which follows the Vatican manuscripts, is not reproduced; Mai's note mark "(1)" is omitted. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): E» ἔτει αρώτῳ (1) Κυρὸν βασιλέως. Tigensetue μὲν αὐτῷ τὼ παρὼ τοῦ ὠγγέλον γνωρισϑέντα dew. γησασϑαι χρῆται bí καὶ κατὰ τὸ παρὸν τῷ itur ματι τῆς γιαφῆς οὐ vet πρότερον τὸ κατὰ μόρος λέγει, πρὶν $ ἐν κεφαλωμίω περιλάβῃ τῶν ὅλων τὸν vovv. 99 γὼρ ἔφη n ὠσοπαλύξϑη . ἐλλ' ὅτι λόγο ἄριστον τέῳς ποιούμενα; τῶν πραγμώτων τὴν AQw qm → Ἐν ἔτει πρώτῳ Κύρου βασιλέως. Πρόκειται μὲν αὐτῷ τὰ παρὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου γνωρισθέντα διηγήσασθαι· χρῆται δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὸ παρὸν τῷ ἰδιώματι τῆς γραφῆς· οὐ γὰρ πρότερον τὸ κατὰ μέρος λέγει, πρὶν ἢ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ περιλάβῃ τὸν ὅλων τὸν νοῦν· οὐ γὰρ ἔφη τι ἀπεκαλύφθη, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι λόγος· ἄριστον τέως ποιούμενος τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἀφήγησιν..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.1 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.2Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἀληθινὸς ὁ λόγος. Τουτέστιν οὐ φαντασίαν τίθεται, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτῶν τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἀλήθειαν.
Alēthinos ho logos. Toutestin ou phantasian tithetai, all᾽ autōn tōn pragmatōn tēn alētheian.
"The word is true." That is, he does not set down a fantasy, but the truth of the events themselves.
Dan 10:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The revelation concerns real events.
- Scholion on Dan 10:1. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): 'Axs3re d λόγος. Τουτέστιν od. φαντασίων τιθϑέαται . ἀλλ᾽ αὐτῶν τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἀλήϑειω». → Ἀληθινὸς ὁ λόγος. Τουτέστιν οὐ φαντασίαν τίθεται, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτῶν τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἀλήθειαν..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.2 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.3Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Δύναμις μεγάλη καὶ σύνεσις. Οὐ μόνον φησὶ τὰ ὀφθέντα ἦν παράδοξα, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ ἀπαγγέλλων τὰ πράγματα, ἦν φοβερός· καὶ οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἐδυνήθην τὴν ἀρχὴν δέξασθαι τοῦ διαλεγομένου τὴν ὁμιλίαν, εἰ μὴ χάριτος τυχὼν μείζονος ἢ κατὰ ἄνθρωπον ἤρκεσα πρὸς τὴν τῶν λόγων ἀκρόασιν.
Dynamis megalē kai synesis. Ou monon phēsi ta ophthenta ēn paradoxa, alla kai ho apangellōn ta pragmata, ēn phoberos; kai oud᾽ an edynēthēn tēn archēn dexasthai tou dialegomenou tēn homilian, ei mē charitos tychōn meizonos ē kata anthrōpon ērkesa pros tēn tōn logōn akroasin.
"Great power and understanding." Not only, he says, were the things seen wonderful, but the one who announced the matters was fearsome, and I could not even have begun to receive the discourse of the one speaking had I not met with a grace greater than human for the hearing of the words.
Dan 10:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The revelation was fearsome and required more than human grace to receive.
- Scholion on Dan 10:1. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): δυναμις μυγάλῃη καὶ σύνεσις. Οὗ μόνον φησὶ vi ὀξϑέντα ἐν παραδοξα, ἀλλὲ καὶ d$ ἀκαγγίλλων τὰ πρύγματα, d» φοβερός καὶ οὐδ᾽ ὧν ἐδυνήϑη e» ἐσ- x3* δεξασϑαι τοῦ διαλεγομένου τὴν ὁμιλίαν. εἰ μὴ χάριτος τυχὼν μείζονος * κατὼὸ ἄνθρωσον ὄρχοσε πρὸς τὴν τῶν λόγων εἰκρέασιν. → Δύναμις μεγάλη καὶ σύνεσις. Οὐ μόνον φησὶ τὰ ὀφθέντα ἦν παράδοξα, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ ἀπαγγέλλων τὰ πράγματα, ἦν φοβερός· καὶ οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἐδυνήθην τὴν ἀρχὴν δέξασθαι τοῦ διαλεγομένου τὴν ὁμιλίαν, εἰ μὴ χάριτος τυχὼν μείζονος ἢ κατὰ ἄνθρωπον ἤρκεσα πρὸς τὴν τῶν λόγων ἀκρόασιν..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.3 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.4Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18
Ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις. Δηλονότι ἡνίκα οὐδεὶς νοῦν ἐβάλετο τοῦ διαφθεῖραι τὸν λαόν, ἅτε τῆς βασιλείας αὐτῷ ἀρχὴν λαβούσης καὶ διαμενούσης ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ.
En tais hēmerais ekeinais. Dēlonoti hēnika oudeis noun ebaleto tou diaphtheirai ton laon, hate tēs basileias autǭ archēn labousēs kai diamenousēs en asphaleią.
"In those days." Clearly, when no one any longer thought of destroying the people, since the kingdom had begun to be his and remained in safety.
Dan 10:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The vision came when the people were safe under Cyrus.
- Scholion on Dan 10:2. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 18): 'E» vue ἡμέρως ἐκείναις. Δηλονύτι ἡνίκα ον" δοὶς νοῦν ἐβάλετο τοῦ διαφϑεῖραι τὸν λαόν, iri εἰς βασιλεία: αὐτῷ ἀρχὴ λαβούσης καὶ διεμένης àego* λείας. → Ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις. Δηλονότι ἡνίκα οὐδεὶς νοῦν ἐβάλετο τοῦ διαφθεῖραι τὸν λαόν, ἅτε τῆς βασιλείας αὐτῷ ἀρχὴν λαβούσης καὶ διαμενούσης ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.4 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.5Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18-19
Πενθῶν τρεῖς ἑβδομάδας. Τουτέστι νηστεύων. Ἔθος γὰρ τοῖς ἰουδαίοις τὴν νηστείαν πένθος καλεῖν, ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ ἀναγέγραπται· δῆλος δέ ἐστι νηστεύσας ἐφεξῆς τὰς εἴκοσι μιᾶς ἡμέρας, οὐδὲ μιᾶς τροφῆς μεταξὺ μεταλαβών, οὐδέ τι τῶν κατὰ συνήθειαν πεποιηκώς· τοῦτο γὰρ μηνύει τὸ ἕως τριῶν ἑβδομάδων ἡμερῶν· εἰ γὰρ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην διημερεύων ἐν τῇ νηστείᾳ, κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν ἤσθιεν, οὐδὲν ἦν θαυμαστόν· ἀλλὰ δῆλον ὡς συντόνῳ τῇ προσευχῇ χρήσασθαι βουλόμενος, καὶ πολλῷ ληφθεὶς τῷ θείῳ πόθῳ, συνῆπτε τὰς ἡμέρας· τρόπον τινὰ κρίνας, μὴ πρότερον τροφῆς μεταλαβεῖν ἄχρις οὗ τῆς ἄνωθεν ἀξιωθείη ὁμιλίας.
Penthōn treis hebdomadas. Toutesti nēsteuōn. Ethos gar tois ioudaiois tēn nēsteian penthos kalein, hōs kai en tǭ nomǭ anagegraptai; dēlos de esti nēsteusas ephexēs tas eikosi mias hēmeras, oude mias trophēs metaxy metalabōn, oude ti tōn kata synētheian pepoiēkōs; touto gar mēnyei to heōs triōn hebdomadōn hēmerōn; ei gar kath᾽ hekastēn diēmereuōn en tę̄ nēsteią, kata tēn hesperan ēsthien, ouden ēn thaumaston; alla dēlon hōs syntonǭ tę̄ proseuchę̄ chrēsasthai boulomenos, kai pollǭ lēphtheis tǭ theiǭ pothǭ, synēpte tas hēmeras; tropon tina krinas, mē proteron trophēs metalabein achris hou tēs anōthen axiōtheiē homilias.
"Mourning three weeks." That is, fasting. For it is the custom among the Jews to call fasting "mourning," as is also written in the law. It is clear that he fasted the twenty-one days in succession, taking not even one meal in between, nor doing anything according to custom; for this is what "until three weeks of days" indicates. For if he had spent each day in the fast and eaten in the evening, there would have been nothing wonderful; but it is clear that, wishing to use intense prayer and seized by great divine longing, he joined the days together, having decided, in a way, not to take food until he was counted worthy of converse from above.
Dan 10:2–3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel's three weeks of mourning were an unbroken fast of twenty-one days.
- Scholion on Dan 10:2–3. Polychronius's view that Daniel ate nothing at all for twenty-one days is translated as written. Greek restored from the page images (pp. 18–19).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page images of Mai 1831, pp. 18–19): Wei» τρεῖς ἐβδομαξας. Τουτέστιν vac. Ἔϑος yep σοῖς ioelaiog τὸν νηστείαν . σένϑος κα΄ Jw . ὡς καὶ ἐν ep cepe ὠνωγέγραπτοωι δῆλος δὲ jen νηστεύψας ἐφεξὴς 1a εἴκοσι μιᾶς ἡμέρας, οὐδὲ paesi τροφῆς μεταξὺ μεταλαβών, οὐδὲ r1 τῶν κατα σνν" sues πεγοιηπὼς τοῦτο γὰρ μηνύει τὸ Pep τριῶν ὁβδομώβων ἡμερῶν, εἰ veo xaX ἑκάστην διπμερούων ὧν τὴ vaetiin , κατὰ τὴν ἐσπέραν 3oSuv , οὐδὲν d» σασϑαὶ βουλόμενος . καὶ. oS Anp3alq vy Sap qé3w » συνῆπτε τὰς ἡμέρας" τρόπον «nd xpivaq , μὲ πρότερον τροφῆς μμταλαβεῖν ὄχρις od τῆς ἄνωθεν REur Se* ὁμιλίας. → Πενθῶν τρεῖς ἑβδομάδας. Τουτέστι νηστεύων. Ἔθος γὰρ τοῖς ἰουδαίοις τὴν νηστείαν πένθος καλεῖν, ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ ἀναγέγραπται· δῆλος δέ ἐστι νηστεύσας ἐφεξῆς τὰς εἴκοσι μιᾶς ἡμέρας, οὐδὲ μιᾶς τροφῆς μεταξὺ μεταλαβών, οὐδέ τι τῶν κατὰ συνήθειαν πεποιηκώς· τοῦτο γὰρ μηνύει τὸ ἕως τριῶν ἑβδομάδων ἡμερῶν· εἰ γὰρ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην διημερεύων ἐν τῇ νηστείᾳ, κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν ἤσθιεν, οὐδὲν ἦν θαυμαστόν· ἀλλὰ δῆλον ὡς συντόνῳ τῇ προσευχῇ χρήσασθαι βουλόμενος, καὶ πολλῷ ληφθεὶς τῷ θείῳ πόθῳ, συνῆπτε τὰς ἡμέρας· τρόπον τινὰ κρίνας, μὴ πρότερον τροφῆς μεταλαβεῖν ἄχρις οὗ τῆς ἄνωθεν ἀξιωθείη ὁμιλίας..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.5 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):18-19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.6Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ἄλειμμα οὐκ ἠλειψάμην. Μηνύει ὡς οὐ μόνον τῆς συνήθους ἀπέσχετο τροφῆς, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἕτερόν τι τῶν κατὰ συνήθειαν πεποίηκεν· ἔθος γὰρ ἦν τοῖς ἐν τέλει τῶν περσῶν καλλωπίζειν τὴν κόμην, ἄλλοις τέ τισι, καὶ ἀλοιφῇ, ὃ ἔτι καὶ νῦν παρὰ πέρσαις ἐστὶν ἰδεῖν· λαλεῖ τοίνυν ὅτι οὐδὲ μεταστὰς τῆς ἀξίας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῶν ὁμοίων τυγχάνων, οὐδὲν τῶν κατὰ συνήθειαν πεποίηκεν· ἐν γὰρ πλείστῃ εὐημερίᾳ ἐπὶ Δαρείου γεγονὼς καὶ μάλιστα μετὰ τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς λέουσι παράδοξον, ἔμεινεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἴσης τιμῆς καὶ ἐπὶ Κύρου.
Aleimma ouk ēleipsamēn. Mēnyei hōs ou monon tēs synēthous apescheto trophēs, all᾽ oud᾽ heteron ti tōn kata synētheian pepoiēken; ethos gar ēn tois en telei tōn persōn kallōpizein tēn komēn, allois te tisi, kai aloiphę̄, ho eti kai nyn para persais estin idein; lalei toinyn hoti oude metastas tēs axias, all᾽ epi tōn homoiōn tynchanōn, ouden tōn kata synētheian pepoiēken; en gar pleistę̄ euēmerią epi Dareiou gegonōs kai malista meta to epi tois leousi paradoxon, emeinen epi tēs isēs timēs kai epi Kyrou.
"I did not anoint myself with ointment." It indicates that he not only abstained from his usual food, but did not do any of the other customary things either; for it was the custom of those in office among the Persians to beautify their hair with certain other things and with ointment, which can still be seen among the Persians today. He says, then, that he had not lost his rank, but, remaining in the same position, did none of the customary things; for he was in very great prosperity under Darius, especially after the wonder of the lions, and he remained in the same honor under Cyrus too.
Dan 10:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel, though still a high official, gave up even the customary anointing.
- Scholion on Dan 10:3. Greek restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): Ἄλεμμα οὐκ ἡλειψάμην͵, Maven) ὡς οὐ μόνον φὴς συνηλους ἀσίσχιτο τροφᾷς ἀλλ᾽ οὐϑ' [rego τἱ τῶν tard συνήϑοιων πεποίφπεν ϑος γὼρ ἦν τοὺς ἦν eiu τῶν σιφσὼν καλλωπίζειν φὴν κόμην , ὥλλοις "i vun , καὶ ἐλοιξφῆν 6 ἔτι καὶ νῦν παρεὶ σύρσαις ἐσ’ εἰν ἰδεῖν" Mega τοίνυν ὅτι οὐδέ μεταστώς τῆς ἀξίας. ὦλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῶν ὁμοίων τυγχάνων, οὐδὶν τῶν κατὼ συν- vina» πεποίηκεν ἐν γὰρ πλείστη εὐημερίᾳ ἐπὶ Δ4- qUoU γεγονὼς καὶ μάωστα μετα τὸ ἐπὶ τοὺς Mov- δι παράδοξον, ἔμεινεν ὑπὶ τὺς leve τιμῆς καὶ isi hoyos. → Ἄλειμμα οὐκ ἠλειψάμην. Μηνύει ὡς οὐ μόνον τῆς συνήθους ἀπέσχετο τροφῆς, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἕτερόν τι τῶν κατὰ συνήθειαν πεποίηκεν· ἔθος γὰρ ἦν τοῖς ἐν τέλει τῶν περσῶν καλλωπίζειν τὴν κόμην, ἄλλοις τέ τισι, καὶ ἀλοιφῇ, ὃ ἔτι καὶ νῦν παρὰ πέρσαις ἐστὶν ἰδεῖν· λαλεῖ τοίνυν ὅτι οὐδὲ μεταστὰς τῆς ἀξίας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῶν ὁμοίων τυγχάνων, οὐδὲν τῶν κατὰ συνήθειαν πεποίηκεν· ἐν γὰρ πλείστῃ εὐημερίᾳ ἐπὶ Δαρείου γεγονὼς καὶ μάλιστα μετὰ τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς λέουσι παράδοξον, ἔμεινεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἴσης τιμῆς καὶ ἐπὶ Κύρου..
Topics: Fasting
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.6 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.7Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ἕως πληρώσεως τριῶν ἑβδομάδων ἡμερῶν. Ἀκριβέστατα τὸν καιρὸν ἐπισημαίνεται καθ᾽ ὃν τὴν ὀπτασίαν πεποίηται. Καὶ μετ᾽ ὀλίγα. Ἱκέτευεν τὸν θεὸν τήν τε ἄνοδον ἰουδαίοις κατὰ τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν παρασχεῖν, καὶ γνωρίσαι μοι ἀκριβῶς τὰ ὑπὸ Ἀντιόχου πραχθησόμενα· ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν εἰρημένων δηλονότι τὸ πάσχα οὐκ ἐπετέλεσε· καὶ πῶς ἐγὼ λέγω ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν ἀζύμων νηστεύειν ἰουδαίοις οὐ θέμις; οὗτος δὲ ἡμέρας κα' οὐδενὸς ὅλως μετέλαβε· καὶ πόθεν δῆλον φησί; ὅτι αὗται αἱ κ' ἡμέραι καὶ μία, κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας τῶν ἀζύμων ἦσαν, ἐξ ὧν εἶπεν ὅτι τετάρτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνὸς τοῦ πρώτου· καί τοι γε τὸ πάσχα εἰς μίαν καὶ εἰκοστὴν τελευτᾷ· ἀρχόμενοι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς τετάρτης καὶ δεκάτης τοῦ πρώτου μηνός, εἶτα ζ' ἡμέρας ἑορτάσαντες, εἰς κα' ἀπαντῶσιν· ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως καὶ παρελθόντος τοῦ πάσχα, ἔμενεν οὗτος νηστεύων· ἀρξάμενος γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς γ' ἡμέρας τοῦ πρώτου, εἶτα καὶ πληρώσας τὴν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην, παρῆλθε καὶ μετ᾽ ἐκείνην ἑπτὰ καὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας· πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἐρυθριῶσιν οἱ μιαροὶ ἰουδαῖοι, τῶν ἁγίων ἐκείνων οὐδὲν τῶν τοιούτων νομίμων φυλαττόντων ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοτρίας, αὐτοὶ τοὐναντίον ποιοῦσι πρὸς φιλονεικίαν καὶ ἔριν;
Heōs plērōseōs triōn hebdomadōn hēmerōn. Akribestata ton kairon episēmainetai kath᾽ hon tēn optasian pepoiētai. Kai met᾽ oliga. Hiketeuen ton theon tēn te anodon ioudaiois kata tēn hyposchesin paraschein, kai gnōrisai moi akribōs ta hypo Antiochou prachthēsomena; apo de tōn eirēmenōn dēlonoti to pascha ouk epetelese; kai pōs egō legō en tais hēmerais tōn azymōn nēsteuein ioudaiois ou themis? houtos de hēmeras ka' oudenos holōs metelabe; kai pothen dēlon phēsi? hoti hautai hai k' hēmerai kai mia, kata tas hēmeras tōn azymōn ēsan, ex hōn eipen hoti tetartę̄ kai eikadi tou mēnos tou prōtou; kai toi ge to pascha eis mian kai eikostēn teleutą; archomenoi gar apo tēs tetartēs kai dekatēs tou prōtou mēnos, eita z' hēmeras heortasantes, eis ka' apantōsin; all᾽ homōs kai parelthontos tou pascha, emenen houtos nēsteuōn; arxamenos gar apo tēs g' hēmeras tou prōtou, eita kai plērōsas tēn tessareskaidekatēn, parēlthe kai met᾽ ekeinēn hepta kai treis hēmeras; pōs oun ouk erythriōsin hoi miaroi ioudaioi, tōn hagiōn ekeinōn ouden tōn toioutōn nomimōn phylattontōn epi tēs allotrias, autoi tounantion poiousi pros philoneikian kai erin?
"Until three weeks of days were completed." He marks most exactly the time at which he had the vision. And a little after: He was begging God both to grant the Jews the return according to his promise, and to make known to him exactly what would be done by Antiochus. It is clear from what has been said that he did not keep the Passover. "And how," someone says, "do you say that it was not lawful for Jews to fast in the days of unleavened bread? Yet this man took nothing at all for twenty-one days. And where does it appear," he says, "that these twenty-one days were during the days of unleavened bread?" From his saying "on the twenty-fourth of the first month"; and the Passover ends on the twenty-first; for they begin from the fourteenth of the first month and, having kept the feast seven days, reach the twenty-first. But even when the Passover had passed, he remained fasting; for, beginning from the third day of the first month and then completing the fourteenth, he passed beyond it too by seven and three days. How then are the polluted Jews, who keep none of those holy ordinances in a foreign land, not ashamed, but turn the matter to contentiousness and strife?
Dan 10:3–4 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 12:18 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius argues that Daniel's fast ran through Passover and the days of unleavened bread, rebuking contemporary Jews.
- Scholion on Dan 10:3–4; Exod 12:18. The staged text broke this scholion over two refs (10.7–10.9); the continuation is joined here and 10.8 and 10.9 are held. The polemic against the Jews is translated as written. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split into pieces; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): Ἕως πληρώσεως τριῶν ἑβδομείξων ἡμερῶν, "Λεριβέστατα τὸν χαιρὸν ἐπισημαίνεται καϑ' ὃν τὴν ὁστασίαν πεποίηται. Καὶ μετ᾽ ὁλέγω, Ἰκετεύων τὸν ϑιὸν τήν τὲ d»obes ἰουδαίοις xard τὴν ὑκυσχεσιν παρασχεῖν, καὶ γνωρίσαι μοι ἀκριβῶς τὰ ὑσὶ ᾿λντιόχου σραχϑησομενα, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν εἰσημενών δηλονότι τὸ πώσχα οὐκ imt Tigri καὶ πῶς ἐγὼ λέγω ἐν ταῖς ἡμέρως τῶν olv ps? νηστεύειν ἰουδαίοις οὐ Sépig οὗτος δὲ ὁμέρας za οὐδενὸς ὅλως μετίλαβᾳ καὶ ποϑὲν δῆλον Quei ; → Ἕως πληρώσεως τριῶν ἑβδομάδων ἡμερῶν. Ἀκριβέστατα τὸν καιρὸν ἐπισημαίνεται καθ᾽ ὃν τὴν ὀπτασίαν πεποίηται. Καὶ μετ᾽ ὀλίγα. Ἱκέτευεν τὸν θεὸν τήν τε ἄνοδον ἰουδαίοις κατὰ τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν παρασχεῖν, καὶ γνωρίσαι μοι ἀκριβῶς τὰ ὑπὸ Ἀντιόχου πραχθησόμενα· ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν εἰρημένων δηλονότι τὸ πάσχα οὐκ ἐπετέλεσε· καὶ πῶς ἐγὼ λέγω ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν ἀζύμων νηστεύειν ἰουδαίοις οὐ θέμις; οὗτος δὲ ἡμέρας κα' οὐδενὸς ὅλως μετέλαβε· καὶ πόθεν δῆλον φησί; ὅτι αὗται αἱ κ' ἡμέραι καὶ μία, κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας τῶν ἀζύμων ἦσαν, ἐξ ὧν εἶπεν ὅτι τετάρτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνὸς τοῦ πρώτου· καί τοι γε τὸ πάσχα εἰς μίαν καὶ εἰκοστὴν τελευτᾷ· ἀρχόμενοι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς τετάρτης καὶ δεκάτης τοῦ πρώτου μηνός, εἶτα ζ' ἡμέρας ἑορτάσαντες, εἰς κα' ἀπαντῶσιν· ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως καὶ παρελθόντος τοῦ πάσχα, ἔμενεν οὗτος νηστεύων· ἀρξάμενος γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς γ' ἡμέρας τοῦ πρώτου, εἶτα καὶ πληρώσας τὴν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην, παρῆλθε καὶ μετ᾽ ἐκείνην ἑπτὰ καὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας· πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἐρυθριῶσιν οἱ μιαροὶ ἰουδαῖοι, τῶν ἁγίων ἐκείνων οὐδὲν τῶν τοιούτων νομίμων φυλαττόντων ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοτρίας, αὐτοὶ τοὐναντίον ποιοῦσι πρὸς φιλονεικίαν καὶ ἔριν;.
Topics: Fasting, Jews and Judaism
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.7 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.10Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ἦρα τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. Προσευχόμενός φησι καὶ ἐν ἀμηχανίᾳ καθεστώς, ὅτου περ ἕνεκ᾽ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον προσευχόμενος οὐδὲ μιᾶς ἔτυχεν ἀποκρίσεως, ἀποτείνας τὸ ὄμμα, εἶδόν τινα ἐν ἀνδρὸς σχήματι, ἐξηλλαγμένην ἐσθῆτα παρὰ τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων συνήθειαν ἠμφιεσμένον, βαδδίν· καὶ ἔστι μὲν ἡ λέξις ἑβραϊκή· ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ παρὰ μὲν τῶν ο' βύσσινον, Ἀκύλας δὲ ἐξαίρετον λέγει.
Ēra tous ophthalmous. Proseuchomenos phēsi kai en amēchanią kathestōs, hotou per henek᾽ epi tosouton proseuchomenos oude mias etychen apokriseōs, apoteinas to omma, eidon tina en andros schēmati, exēllagmenēn esthēta para tēn tōn anthrōpōn synētheian ēmphiesmenon, baddin; kai esti men hē lexis hebraïkē; hermēneuetai de para men tōn o' byssinon, Akylas de exaireton legei.
"I lifted my eyes." While praying, he says, and being in helplessness, because though he had prayed for so long he had received not one answer, as he raised his eyes I saw one in human form, clothed in a garment unlike what men usually wear: baddin. The word is Hebrew; the Seventy render it "fine linen," while Aquila says "special."
Dan 10:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel saw a man clothed in linen (baddin).
- Scholion on Dan 10:5; the renderings of the Septuagint and Aquila are cited. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): "Ign. τοὺς ὀξϑαμονς, Πφοστυχόμανός qvi καὶ ἐν ὠμηχανίᾳ καϑεστὼς . ὅτου σε iriw xri τοσοῦ- v9» τροσιυχόμονος οὐδὲ μιὰ; ἔτυχεν ἀφιχρίσιως . αἰποτείναξ τὸ ὄμμα. εἶδον τινὰ ἐν ὠνδρες σχηματι, ἐξολλαγμένην σθϑῆτα παρὰ τὴν τῶν ὡνδώτων συν" x*ua»s ἐμξφισμένον βαξδίν᾽ καὶ devi μὲν αὶ λέξις ἐῤῥαῖκπ ἐρμνενεται ἐὲ παρὰ μὲν τῶν » βύσσινον, ἡλυνλας δὲ ἐξαίφτεον λέγει. → Ἦρα τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. Προσευχόμενός φησι καὶ ἐν ἀμηχανίᾳ καθεστώς, ὅτου περ ἕνεκ᾽ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον προσευχόμενος οὐδὲ μιᾶς ἔτυχεν ἀποκρίσεως, ἀποτείνας τὸ ὄμμα, εἶδόν τινα ἐν ἀνδρὸς σχήματι, ἐξηλλαγμένην ἐσθῆτα παρὰ τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων συνήθειαν ἠμφιεσμένον, βαδδίν· καὶ ἔστι μὲν ἡ λέξις ἑβραϊκή· ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ παρὰ μὲν τῶν ο' βύσσινον, Ἀκύλας δὲ ἐξαίρετον λέγει..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.10 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.11Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ἡ ὀσφὺς αὐτοῦ περιεζωσμένη ἐν χρυσίῳ ὠφάζ. Λέγει ὡς ἡ ζώνη τοῦ ὀφθέντος ἦν οἵα ἂν γένοιτο ἡ ἐκ χρυσίου καθαροῦ κατεσκευασμένη· κατὰ δὲ τοὺς ο' ὅτι τὸ λοιπὸν σῶμα παραδόξῳ τινὶ ἐσθῆτι περιβεβλημένος, εἶχέ τι καὶ φαινόμενον ἀποστίλβον καθαρῷ φωτὶ παραπλήσιον.
Hē osphys autou periezōsmenē en chrysiǭ ōphaz. Legei hōs hē zōnē tou ophthentos ēn hoia an genoito hē ek chrysiou katharou kateskeuasmenē; kata de tous o' hoti to loipon sōma paradoxǭ tini esthēti peribeblēmenos, eiche ti kai phainomenon apostilbon katharǭ phōti paraplēsion.
"His loins girded with gold of Uphaz." He says that the girdle of the one who appeared was such as one made of pure gold would be; but according to the Seventy, that the rest of his body, clothed in some wonderful garment, also had something visible flashing out, like pure light.
Dan 10:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The man's golden girdle and shining body are described.
- Scholion on Dan 10:5. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): Ἢ ὁσᾷξνς αὐτοῦ πιριεζωσμίνῃ ἐν χρυσιω ὠξαΐ. Αἰγεὶ ὡς d (urn τοῦ oqSireoq ἦν οἷα ὧν γένμιτο ὁ ἐκ χρυσίου καϑαροῦ κατεσχενασμένη xard δὶ τοὺς » ὅτι 1j λοιπὸν σῶμα magalolg τινὶ ἐσθῆτι περιξεδλημένος., εἶχε τί καὶ Quevoparor ἀχοστιλίον xar Ξαρῷ guri καραπλησιον, → Ἡ ὀσφὺς αὐτοῦ περιεζωσμένη ἐν χρυσίῳ ὠφάζ. Λέγει ὡς ἡ ζώνη τοῦ ὀφθέντος ἦν οἵα ἂν γένοιτο ἡ ἐκ χρυσίου καθαροῦ κατεσκευασμένη· κατὰ δὲ τοὺς ο' ὅτι τὸ λοιπὸν σῶμα παραδόξῳ τινὶ ἐσθῆτι περιβεβλημένος, εἶχέ τι καὶ φαινόμενον ἀποστίλβον καθαρῷ φωτὶ παραπλήσιον..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.11 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.12Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ὡσεὶ ὅρασις ἀστραπῆς. Τουτέστι μαρμαῖρον ἦν καὶ ἔκλαμπρον, καὶ οἷον ἀστραπή τις ἀπεπήδα ἐδόκει τοῦ προσώπου. — Δῆλός ἐστιν ἀπορῶν τρόπον τινὰ πρὸς τὴν ἑρμηνείαν τοῦ ὀφθέντος· οὐ γὰρ ἁπλῶς διηγεῖται, ἀλλὰ τοῖς παραδείγμασι τὸ παράδοξον γνωρίζων. — Ἀντὶ τοῦ πάντα ἦν παράδοξα, τὸ ἔνδυμα, τὸ πρόσωπον, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί, τὸ σῶμα τὸ λοιπόν· ἦν δέ φησι πρὸς τοῖς λοιποῖς καὶ ἡ φωνὴ τῆς συνηθείας κρείττων· ἐδόκει γὰρ οὐχ ὡς παρ᾽ ἑνὸς ἀφίεσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς πλήθους διαθορυβοῦντος καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους διαλεγομένου, μᾶλλον δὲ βοῶντος καὶ παράδοξόν τινα τὸν ἦχον ἐκπέμποντος.
Hōsei horasis astrapēs. Toutesti marmairon ēn kai eklampron, kai hoion astrapē tis apepēda edokei tou prosōpou. — Dēlos estin aporōn tropon tina pros tēn hermēneian tou ophthentos; ou gar haplōs diēgeitai, alla tois paradeigmasi to paradoxon gnōrizōn. — Anti tou panta ēn paradoxa, to endyma, to prosōpon, hoi ophthalmoi, to sōma to loipon; ēn de phēsi pros tois loipois kai hē phōnē tēs synētheias kreittōn; edokei gar ouch hōs par᾽ henos aphiesthai, all᾽ hōs plēthous diathorybountos kai pros allēlous dialegomenou, mallon de boōntos kai paradoxon tina ton ēchon ekpempontos.
"Like the appearance of lightning." That is, it was gleaming and radiant, and as it were a lightning flash shone out from the face. — He is clearly at a loss in a way about the interpretation of what was seen; for he does not narrate simply, but makes known the wonder by comparisons. — Meaning: everything was wonderful, the garment, the face, the eyes, the rest of the body; and, he says, besides the rest, his voice too was above the ordinary; for it seemed to be uttered not as by one but as by a multitude making a din and talking with one another, or rather shouting and sending out a wonderful sound.
Dan 10:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The man's face shone like lightning and his voice sounded like a crowd.
- Scholion on Dan 10:6. The staged text broke this scholion at the column end; its continuation (staged as 10.13) is joined here and 10.13 is held. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a column end; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): eui ὅρασις Φστρασές. Tovtirri μαρμαῖρον » χαὶ Danos, καὶ οἷον ὠστραξη τις ἀποπυδὰν $0245) τοὺ προσνπον, — δύλος ἐστιν amcQar τροῖον → Ὡσεὶ ὅρασις ἀστραπῆς. Τουτέστι μαρμαῖρον ἦν καὶ ἔκλαμπρον, καὶ οἷον ἀστραπή τις ἀπεπήδα ἐδόκει τοῦ προσώπου. — Δῆλός ἐστιν ἀπορῶν τρόπον τινὰ πρὸς τὴν ἑρμηνείαν τοῦ ὀφθέντος· οὐ γὰρ ἁπλῶς διηγεῖται, ἀλλὰ τοῖς παραδείγμασι τὸ παράδοξον γνωρίζων. — Ἀντὶ τοῦ πάντα ἦν παράδοξα, τὸ ἔνδυμα, τὸ πρόσωπον, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί, τὸ σῶμα τὸ λοιπόν· ἦν δέ φησι πρὸς τοῖς λοιποῖς καὶ ἡ φωνὴ τῆς συνηθείας κρείττων· ἐδόκει γὰρ οὐχ ὡς παρ᾽ ἑνὸς ἀφίεσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς πλήθους διαθορυβοῦντος καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους διαλεγομένου, μᾶλλον δὲ βοῶντος καὶ παράδοξόν τινα τὸν ἦχον ἐκπέμποντος..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.12 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.14Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Εἶδον ἐγὼ Δανιὴλ μόνος. Δῆλός ἐστιν ὁ Δανιὴλ οὐ μόνος ποιούμενος τὴν ἱκεσίαν, ἀλλὰ συνεργοὺς καὶ ἑτέρους λαβών, ἢ τοὺς τρεῖς παῖδας, καὶ ἑτέρους πλείονας οὓς ὁμόφρονας ἠπίστατο· ὡς καὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπορίᾳ τῆς τοῦ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ὄψεως, εἶχε καὶ τούτους συμπράττοντας ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ, ἰσουμένους δὲ ὅμως τοῦ προκειμένου· διό μοι καὶ μόνος δοκεῖ τὸ παράδοξον ὁρᾶν.
Eidon egō Daniēl monos. Dēlos estin ho Daniēl ou monos poioumenos tēn hikesian, alla synergous kai heterous labōn, ē tous treis paidas, kai heterous pleionas hous homophronas ēpistato; hōs kai en archę̄ epi tę̄ aporią tēs tou Nabouchodonosor opseōs, eiche kai toutous symprattontas en tę̄ proseuchę̄, isoumenous de homōs tou prokeimenou; dio moi kai monos dokei to paradoxon horan.
"I, Daniel, alone saw." It is clear that Daniel did not make the supplication alone, but took others too as fellow workers, either the three youths or several others whom he knew to be like-minded; as at the beginning, at the perplexity over Nebuchadnezzar's vision, he had these too acting with him in prayer; yet they were equal in the matter at hand; therefore he seems to me to see the wonder alone.
Dan 10:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 2:17–18 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel's companions prayed with him, but he alone saw the vision.
- Scholion on Dan 10:7; compare 2:17–18. The last clause is obscure; translated by sense. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): * o. Εἶδον éqd. Δανλ μόνες. Aw, ieri» ὁ des wwÀ οὗ μόνος ποιούμενος τὴν ἱκεσίαν . ἀλλεὶ συν: γοὺς καὶ ἑτίρους Aafav, ἃ τοὺς τρεῖς παῖδας . καὶ ἑτέρους πλείονας ov; ὄμφξρονας ἠπίστατο᾽ ὡς καὶ ἐν eex3 ἐπὶ οἰ ἀευρία τὸς τοὺ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ὄψεως, εἶχε καὶ τούτους συμπράττοντας ἐν τὸ worry , ἰσουμένους δὲ ὅμως τοῦ προκειμένου διὸ μοι καὶ μὺγος δοκεῖ v9 παραδοξον ὁρᾶν, → Εἶδον ἐγὼ Δανιὴλ μόνος. Δῆλός ἐστιν ὁ Δανιὴλ οὐ μόνος ποιούμενος τὴν ἱκεσίαν, ἀλλὰ συνεργοὺς καὶ ἑτέρους λαβών, ἢ τοὺς τρεῖς παῖδας, καὶ ἑτέρους πλείονας οὓς ὁμόφρονας ἠπίστατο· ὡς καὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπορίᾳ τῆς τοῦ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ὄψεως, εἶχε καὶ τούτους συμπράττοντας ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ, ἰσουμένους δὲ ὅμως τοῦ προκειμένου· διό μοι καὶ μόνος δοκεῖ τὸ παράδοξον ὁρᾶν..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.14 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.15Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Εἶδον τὴν ὀπτασίαν τὴν μεγάλην. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ λοιποί φησιν εἰς φυγὴν ἐτράπησαν, ἐγὼ δὲ μόνος τῆς παραδόξου ταύτης θέας τετύχηκα. — Οὐ μὴν φησὶν ἤρκεσα πρὸς τὴν θέαν· ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ τοῦ δέους ἐκλυόμην. — Τουτέστι τοῦ προσώπου μου ὁ χρὼς μετεβλήθη, ὃ τοῖς εἰς δέος καθισταμένοις μάλιστα συμβαίνει, ὑπὸ τοῦ φόβου καὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνος ὑποστρέφοντος πολλάκις τοῦ αἵματος, καὶ ὠχρὰν τοῦ σώματος καταλιμπάνοντος τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν. — Εἰς ταύτην φησὶν ἐλήλυθα τὴν κατάστασιν, ἤκουον αὐτοῦ διαλεγομένου. — Ἵνα εἴπῃ ὑπὸ τοῦ φόβου ὅτι οὔτε ἀτενίσαι ἐτόλμων, ἀλλὰ πρηνὴς πεσὼν ἔνευον κάτω.
Eidon tēn optasian tēn megalēn. Hoi men gar loipoi phēsin eis phygēn etrapēsan, egō de monos tēs paradoxou tautēs theas tetychēka. — Ou mēn phēsin ērkesa pros tēn thean; all᾽ hypo tou deous eklyomēn. — Toutesti tou prosōpou mou ho chrōs meteblēthē, ho tois eis deos kathistamenois malista symbainei, hypo tou phobou kai tou agōnos hypostrephontos pollakis tou haimatos, kai ōchran tou sōmatos katalimpanontos tēn epiphaneian. — Eis tautēn phēsin elēlytha tēn katastasin, ēkouon autou dialegomenou. — Hina eipę̄ hypo tou phobou hoti oute atenisai etolmōn, alla prēnēs pesōn eneuon katō.
"I saw this great vision." For the others, he says, turned to flight, but I alone obtained this wonderful sight. — Yet, he says, I was not equal to the sight, but was undone by fear. — That is, the color of my face was changed, which happens above all to those who fall into fear, the blood often drawing back from fear and anguish, and a paleness leaving its mark on the surface of the body. — He says he came into this state when he heard him speaking. — To say that from fear he did not even dare to look intently, but, falling on his face, he looked down.
Dan 10:8–9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel alone saw the vision and was overcome with fear.
- Scholion on Dan 10:8–9. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): Εἶδον σὴν ὀττασίαν τὴν μεγάλε», Οἱ μὲν ya; λοιμοὶ φησί εἰς Qvi» ἐτράπησαν, ἐγὼ δὲ μένος τῆς καραξύξου ταύτης ϑέας vivi uaa. o Οὐ μην φησι ἐρκέσα πρὸς τὴν ϑύαν' ἀλλ' ὑπὸ τοῦ δέους ix νούμην. o Τουτέστε τοῦ προσώπου poo ὁ xode μετ’ εβλήϑῃῳ,, ὃ τοῖς οἷς δέος καϑισταμένοις μάλιστα συμβαίνει. éx$ τοῦ φόβου καὶ σοῦ ὠγῶνος ὑπονοῦ. τούντος πολλακις To) αἵματος, χαὶ wypds τοὶ €wW- ματος καταλιμδανοντος τὸν ἐπιφάνειαν, e— Εἷς teur τὴν φησὶν ἐληλυθώς τὴν χατασταωσιν, ἥκουον αὐτοῦ διαλεγομένου. —"be εἶση ὑπὸ τοῦ φόβον ὅτι εὔτι ἀτενίσαι ἐτολμων. ἀλλὰ πρηνῆς wage» ἔνευον κατω. → Εἶδον τὴν ὀπτασίαν τὴν μεγάλην. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ λοιποί φησιν εἰς φυγὴν ἐτράπησαν, ἐγὼ δὲ μόνος τῆς παραδόξου ταύτης θέας τετύχηκα. — Οὐ μὴν φησὶν ἤρκεσα πρὸς τὴν θέαν· ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ τοῦ δέους ἐκλυόμην. — Τουτέστι τοῦ προσώπου μου ὁ χρὼς μετεβλήθη, ὃ τοῖς εἰς δέος καθισταμένοις μάλιστα συμβαίνει, ὑπὸ τοῦ φόβου καὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνος ὑποστρέφοντος πολλάκις τοῦ αἵματος, καὶ ὠχρὰν τοῦ σώματος καταλιμπάνοντος τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν. — Εἰς ταύτην φησὶν ἐλήλυθα τὴν κατάστασιν, ἤκουον αὐτοῦ διαλεγομένου. — Ἵνα εἴπῃ ὑπὸ τοῦ φόβου ὅτι οὔτε ἀτενίσαι ἐτόλμων, ἀλλὰ πρηνὴς πεσὼν ἔνευον κάτω..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.15 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.16Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ἤγειρέ με. Παρεμυθεῖτό φησι τὸ δέος ὁ ὀφθείς, καὶ ἀνίστη τοῦ πτώματος. — Τουτέστιν ὑπό τε θεοῦ ἀγαπώμενε καὶ πολλὴν περὶ τὸν λαὸν ἔχων τὴν διάθεσιν. — Τουτέστιν ἀναστὰς πρόσεχε τοῖς λεγομένοις τὸν νοῦν· εἰς τοσοῦτον δὲ δέος καταστῆναι αὐτὸν συνεχώρησεν ὁ θεός, ὡς ἂν μὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγέθους τῶν φαινομένων φυσηθῇ τὴν γνώμην.
Ēgeire me. Paremytheito phēsi to deos ho ophtheis, kai anistē tou ptōmatos. — Toutestin hypo te theou agapōmene kai pollēn peri ton laon echōn tēn diathesin. — Toutestin anastas proseche tois legomenois ton noun; eis tosouton de deos katastēnai auton synechōrēsen ho theos, hōs an mē hypo tou megethous tōn phainomenōn physēthę̄ tēn gnōmēn.
"He raised me." The one who appeared, he says, calmed my fear and raised me from my fall. — That is, being loved by God and having great affection for the people. — That is, rise and attend to what is said; God allowed him to come into such fear so that his mind might not be puffed up by the greatness of the appearances.
Dan 10:10–11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The angel raised Daniel, beloved of God, who was humbled by fear.
- Scholion on Dan 10:10–11. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): ΓΠγειρὲ pa. αρεμυδέιτο Quei τὸ δέος ὁ óg- Jag , κοὶ ἀνίστη τοῦ πτώματος, -- Τουτέστιν ὑπὸ τὸ σεοὺ syareprui καὶ πολλὴν περὶ τὸν λαὸν ἔχων τὴν Blair o Τουτέστιν ἀναστὰς πρόσεχε τοῖς Àr- Tuae Té» »edv οἷς τοσοῦτον δὲ δέος καταστῆνα; αὐτὸν σννιχώρησιν ὁ ϑεός.. ὡς ὧν μὴ ὑπὰ τοῦ με- qo τῶν φαινομένων ξυσηϑη τιν Tp. → Ἤγειρέ με. Παρεμυθεῖτό φησι τὸ δέος ὁ ὀφθείς, καὶ ἀνίστη τοῦ πτώματος. — Τουτέστιν ὑπό τε θεοῦ ἀγαπώμενε καὶ πολλὴν περὶ τὸν λαὸν ἔχων τὴν διάθεσιν. — Τουτέστιν ἀναστὰς πρόσεχε τοῖς λεγομένοις τὸν νοῦν· εἰς τοσοῦτον δὲ δέος καταστῆναι αὐτὸν συνεχώρησεν ὁ θεός, ὡς ἂν μὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγέθους τῶν φαινομένων φυσηθῇ τὴν γνώμην..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.16 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.17Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Νῦν ἀπεστάλην πρὸς σέ. Ἥκω γάρ φησιν οὐ παρ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ, ἀλλὰ παρὰ θεοῦ ἀποσταλείς. — Τὸ μὲν οὖν κελευσθέν φησιν ἔπραττον καὶ διανιστάμην τοῦ πτώματος, οὐ μὴν ἀπηλλαττόμην τοῦ δέους. — Πρὸ τοῦ λόγου παραμυθεῖται, ἔτι τὴν ψυχὴν ταραττόμενον.
Nyn apestalēn pros se. Hēkō gar phēsin ou par᾽ emautou, alla para theou apostaleis. — To men oun keleusthen phēsin epratton kai dianistamēn tou ptōmatos, ou mēn apēllattomēn tou deous. — Pro tou logou paramytheitai, eti tēn psychēn tarattomenon.
"Now I have been sent to you." I have come, he says, not of myself, but sent from God. — What was commanded, he says, I did, and I rose from my fall, but was not freed from fear. — He comforts him before the word, since he is still troubled in soul.
Dan 10:11–12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The angel was sent by God; Daniel stood but was still afraid.
- Scholion on Dan 10:11–12. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): Nóv ἀκεσταλην πρὸς σε, Ἥσω Tee ξζοσι οὐ παῤ ἐμαντῶ, ὁλλὼ σαρὰ Sed ὠπεσταλιίς.--- Τὸ μὲν οὖν χελευσϑέν φησιν ἔχραττον καὶ διανισεάωην cop πτώματος ε οὐ μὰν ἀγηλλαττόμην τοῦ δέους, — lico φυῷ λόγου πυραμυϑεῖται , ἔτι τὴν ψυχὴν ταραττο- parto. → Νῦν ἀπεστάλην πρὸς σέ. Ἥκω γάρ φησιν οὐ παρ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ, ἀλλὰ παρὰ θεοῦ ἀποσταλείς. — Τὸ μὲν οὖν κελευσθέν φησιν ἔπραττον καὶ διανιστάμην τοῦ πτώματος, οὐ μὴν ἀπηλλαττόμην τοῦ δέους. — Πρὸ τοῦ λόγου παραμυθεῖται, ἔτι τὴν ψυχὴν ταραττόμενον..
Topics: Angels
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.17 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.18Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας. Μὴ θαυμάσῃς φησὶν εἰ μετὰ τοσαύτας ἡμέρας ἀφικόμην, τὴν τῶν ἀπορουμένων παρέξων τὴν γνῶσιν· οὐ γὰρ ἀνεβάλετο θεός· αὐτίκα γὰρ μάλα διακονησόμενον τοῖς παρά σου δεήμασιν ἀπέσταλκεν· ἐφ᾽ ᾧ τε τῶν ζητουμένων σοι παρασχεῖν τὴν διδασκαλίαν.
Apo tēs prōtēs hēmeras. Mē thaumasę̄s phēsin ei meta tosautas hēmeras aphikomēn, tēn tōn aporoumenōn parexōn tēn gnōsin; ou gar anebaleto theos; autika gar mala diakonēsomenon tois para sou deēmasin apestalken; eph᾽ hǭ te tōn zētoumenōn soi paraschein tēn didaskalian.
"From the first day." Do not wonder, he says, if I come after so many days to give the knowledge of what is in doubt; for God did not put it off; for he sent me at once to serve your entreaties, so as to give you the teaching of what you seek.
Dan 10:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God sent the angel from the first day of Daniel's prayer.
- Scholion on Dan 10:12. The word rendered "entreaties" is blurred in the image (read δεήμασιν); uncertain. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 19): "λκὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας. Μὰ ϑαυμώσης pr di, εἰ μετὰ τοσαντας ἡμίρας ἀξικόμην, τῶν ὧτοβουμένων παρέξων τὴν γνῶσιν οὐ γὰρ ἀνεβάλετο Sio αὐτίκα γὰρ μάλα διαχονησοόμενον τοῖς Sapa σον ξισπίσμασιν ὠκίσταλχεν ἐφ' εὖ τε τῶν ζητουμένων σοι παξασχεῖν τὸν διδασκαλίαν, → Ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας. Μὴ θαυμάσῃς φησὶν εἰ μετὰ τοσαύτας ἡμέρας ἀφικόμην, τὴν τῶν ἀπορουμένων παρέξων τὴν γνῶσιν· οὐ γὰρ ἀνεβάλετο θεός· αὐτίκα γὰρ μάλα διακονησόμενον τοῖς παρά σου δεήμασιν ἀπέσταλκεν· ἐφ᾽ ᾧ τε τῶν ζητουμένων σοι παρασχεῖν τὴν διδασκαλίαν..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.18 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.19Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19
Ὁ ἄρχων βασιλείας περσῶν. Ἐν οἷς ὁ Δανιὴλ ἠξίου, καὶ ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄγγελος ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τὴν παράστασιν ἐποιεῖτο, ἀντέτακτο καὶ ὁ πονηρός, ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἰσχυριζόμενος εἰς τὸ κατέχεσθαι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ περσῶν· εἴ τι γὰρ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ κακόν, τοῦτο ἐκείνῳ δύναμις· διὸ κατὰ μόνου ἑαυτοῦ, δύναμιν οὐκ εἶναι τῷ ἄρχοντι τοῦ κόσμου φησὶν ὁ κύριος· ἔρχεται ὁ τοῦ κόσμου ἄρχων, καὶ ἔχει ἐν ἐμοὶ οὐδέν· τοῦτο ὅτι μάτην ἔπεισιν, ἔχων οὐδὲν εἰς δύναμιν· τινὲς ἄρχοντα βασιλείας περσῶν δαιμονικήν τινα λέγουσι φύσιν, σφόδρα τῆς ἀληθείας κατ᾽ ἐμὲ διαμαρτάνοντες· οὐ γὰρ ἕκαστον ἔθνος ἐφεστώσας ἔχει ἀντικειμένας δυνάμεις· ἢ γὰρ ἂν οὐδὲν χρηστὸν παρ᾽ οὐδενὶ ἐτύγχανεν· εἰ γὰρ δαίμονες μὲν ἐφεστᾶσι, κατὰ δὲ γνώμην ἅπαντα πράττουσι, βούλονται δὲ χρηστὸν οὐδέν, εὔδηλον ὡς οὐδέ τις τῶν ὑπηκόων ἔπραξεν ἄν τι κατὰ νοῦν, ἐκείνων κατ᾽ ἐξουσίαν ἀγόντων τε καὶ φερόντων τὰ πράγματα· ἄλλως τε πῶς ἂν εἴποιεν αὐτοὺς ἐφεστάναι; πότερον οἰκείᾳ γνώμῃ, ἢ τοῦ θεοῦ; καὶ πῶς; ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μὲν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ πῶς οὐχ ὁρῶσι τὸ ἄτοπον, εἴπερ τυραννίδι δαιμόνων τὰ ἀνθρώπινα παραδέδωκε θεός; ἀλλ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν, καὶ πῶς οὐ προνοῶν θεὸς ἐλευθέρους τοὺς ἀνθρώπους καθίστη τῆς ἐκείνων δυναστείας; Καὶ μεθ᾽ ἕτερα. Εὔδηλον τοίνυν ὡς ἄρχοντα περσῶν, ἀγγελικὴν δύναμιν λέγει· ἐπείπερ καὶ ἑκάστῳ ἔθνει καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ ἄγγελος φαίνεται ἐφεστώς τε καὶ παρεδρεύων· κατὰ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ Μωϋσέως εἰρημένον, ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ. — Καὶ μεθ᾽ ἕτερα. Οὐκ εἶπεν ἐμαχήσατό μοι, ἀλλ᾽ οἱονεὶ ἐδικαιολογεῖτο πρός με· ὡς οὐκ εἶσαν ἄξιοι οἱ ἰουδαῖοι τῆς περσῶν ἀπαλλαγῆναι δουλείας· εὐσεβοῦντας μὲν γὰρ πάντων εἶναι κρείττους, ἄτοπον οὐδέν, ὡς Δανιὴλ καὶ οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἀνανίαν γεγένηνται, καὶ οἱ τούτων προπάτορες τῆς αἰγυπτιακῆς ἀπαλλαγέντες δουλείας, καὶ τῶν ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ πάντων κατεσχηκότες· παρανομοῦντας δέ τις δίκαιος ἐξαιρήσεται λόγος; ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ τῇ δυνάμει τῶν κρατούντων δεήσει κρίνεσθαι τὴν ἀρχήν; τούτων τοίνυν οὕτως ἐχόντων, σκοπῶμεν τὰ κατὰ μέρος· ἀρξαμένου μὲν γάρ σου τῆς ἱκεσίας, ἀπεστάλην ἐγὼ γνωρίσων σοι, ὡς τῆς περσῶν δουλείας ἀπαλλαγήσονται οἱ ἰουδαῖοι· ἄχρι δὲ τοῦ νῦν ἕτερος ἄγγελος, ὃς τῶν περσῶν τὴν ἐπιστασίαν ἐγκεχείρισται, τῇ πρὸς ἐμὲ ἐχρήσατο δικαιολογίᾳ, οὐκ ἀξίους τῆς εὐεργεσίας ἀποφαίνων ἰουδαίους.
Ho archōn basileias persōn. En hois ho Daniēl ēxiou, kai ho agathos angelos hyper autou tēn parastasin epoieito, antetakto kai ho ponēros, tais hamartiais tou Israēl ischyrizomenos eis to katechesthai auton hypo persōn; ei ti gar en anthrōpǭ kakon, touto ekeinǭ dynamis; dio kata monou heautou, dynamin ouk einai tǭ archonti tou kosmou phēsin ho kyrios; erchetai ho tou kosmou archōn, kai echei en emoi ouden; touto hoti matēn epeisin, echōn ouden eis dynamin; tines archonta basileias persōn daimonikēn tina legousi physin, sphodra tēs alētheias kat᾽ eme diamartanontes; ou gar hekaston ethnos ephestōsas echei antikeimenas dynameis; ē gar an ouden chrēston par᾽ oudeni etynchanen; ei gar daimones men ephestasi, kata de gnōmēn hapanta prattousi, boulontai de chrēston ouden, eudēlon hōs oude tis tōn hypēkoōn epraxen an ti kata noun, ekeinōn kat᾽ exousian agontōn te kai pherontōn ta pragmata; allōs te pōs an eipoien autous ephestanai? poteron oikeią gnōmę̄, ē tou theou? kai pōs? all᾽ ei men tou theou, kai pōs ouch horōsi to atopon, eiper tyrannidi daimonōn ta anthrōpina paradedōke theos? all᾽ aph᾽ heautōn, kai pōs ou pronoōn theos eleutherous tous anthrōpous kathistē tēs ekeinōn dynasteias? Kai meth᾽ hetera. Eudēlon toinyn hōs archonta persōn, angelikēn dynamin legei; epeiper kai hekastǭ ethnei kai anthrōpǭ angelos phainetai ephestōs te kai paredreuōn; kata to hypo tou Mōÿseōs eirēmenon, estēsen horia ethnōn kata arithmon angelōn theou. — Kai meth᾽ hetera. Ouk eipen emachēsato moi, all᾽ hoionei edikaiologeito pros me; hōs ouk eisan axioi hoi ioudaioi tēs persōn apallagēnai douleias; eusebountas men gar pantōn einai kreittous, atopon ouden, hōs Daniēl kai hoi peri ton Ananian gegenēntai, kai hoi toutōn propatores tēs aigyptiakēs apallagentes douleias, kai tōn en Palaistinę̄ pantōn kateschēkotes; paranomountas de tis dikaios exairēsetai logos? all᾽ ouchi tę̄ dynamei tōn kratountōn deēsei krinesthai tēn archēn? toutōn toinyn houtōs echontōn, skopōmen ta kata meros; arxamenou men gar sou tēs hikesias, apestalēn egō gnōrisōn soi, hōs tēs persōn douleias apallagēsontai hoi ioudaioi; achri de tou nyn heteros angelos, hos tōn persōn tēn epistasian enkecheiristai, tę̄ pros eme echrēsato dikaiologią, ouk axious tēs euergesias apophainōn ioudaious.
"The prince of the kingdom of the Persians." While Daniel was making his request and the good angel was standing up for him, the evil one too was ranged against him, relying on the sins of Israel so that they would be held by the Persians; for whatever evil there is in a man is power for him; which is why the Lord, speaking of himself alone, says that the ruler of the world has no power: "The ruler of the world is coming, and has nothing in me"; that is, he comes in vain, having nothing to give him power. Some say that "the prince of the kingdom of the Persians" is a demonic nature, greatly missing the truth in my view; for each nation does not have opposing powers set over it; otherwise nothing good would be found in anyone. For if demons are set over them and do everything according to their will, and want nothing good, it is clear that none of the subjects would have done anything according to their mind, since those powers lead and carry affairs by authority. Besides, how would they say these are set over them: by their own will or by God's? And how? If by God's, how do they not see the absurdity, that God has handed human affairs to the tyranny of demons? If of themselves, how does God in his providence not set men free from their domination? And after other things: It is clear, then, that by "the prince of the Persians" he means an angelic power; since an angel appears to be set over and to sit beside each nation and each man, according to what was said by Moses: "He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God." And after other things: He did not say, "he fought against me," but rather he argued his case against me, that the Jews were not worthy to be freed from slavery to the Persians: for to say that when they are godly they are stronger than all is nothing strange, as Daniel and Hananiah's companions became, and their forefathers who were freed from slavery in Egypt and took possession of all of Palestine; but when they transgress, what just plea will rescue them? Is not their rule to be judged by the power of those who hold it? This being so, let us look at the details. When you began your supplication, I was sent to make known to you that the Jews will be freed from slavery to the Persians; but until now another angel, to whom the charge of the Persians has been entrusted, has used his plea against me, declaring the Jews unworthy of the benefit.
Dan 10:13 (quotation, high confidence) · John 14:30 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 32:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Polychronius argues that the prince of Persia is not a demon but the angel set over Persia, who argued that the sinful Jews did not deserve release.
- Scholion on Dan 10:13; John 14:30; Deut 32:8 (LXX: "according to the number of the angels of God"). The staged text broke this scholion at the page end; its continuation (staged as 10.20) is joined here and 10.20 is held. Polychronius's angelology is translated as written. Greek restored from the page images (pp. 19–20).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a page end; text read afresh from the page images of Mai 1831, pp. 19–20): Ὃ ἄρχων βασιλείας πιρσῶν. Ἔν οἷς à As νεδλ ἠξίου, χαὶ ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄγγιλος ὑκὲρ αὐτοῦ τὴν παράστασιν ἐποιεῖτο, ἀντέτακτο χαὶ ὁ πονηρός, ταὶς ἀμαφτίαις τοὺ ᾿Ισρανλ ἐσχυριξόμενος εἰς τὸ narag- χισδαι αὐτὸν ὑξὸ περσῶν Mov γάρ ir ἀνϑρώεμ κα΄ z6». τοῦτο jar» ξυναμωζ᾽ δι κατὰ μόνον δαυτοῦ, ὀυναίων σὺκ εἶναι τῷ ἄρχοντι τοῦ χύσμουν φησὶν ὁ κυριυφ ἔρχεται ὁ τοῦ χοσμου ἄργων., καὶ ἔχει ἐν → Ὁ ἄρχων βασιλείας περσῶν. Ἐν οἷς ὁ Δανιὴλ ἠξίου, καὶ ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄγγελος ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τὴν παράστασιν ἐποιεῖτο, ἀντέτακτο καὶ ὁ πονηρός, ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἰσχυριζόμενος εἰς τὸ κατέχεσθαι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ περσῶν· εἴ τι γὰρ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ κακόν, τοῦτο ἐκείνῳ δύναμις· διὸ κατὰ μόνου ἑαυτοῦ, δύναμιν οὐκ εἶναι τῷ ἄρχοντι τοῦ κόσμου φησὶν ὁ κύριος· ἔρχεται ὁ τοῦ κόσμου ἄρχων, καὶ ἔχει ἐν ἐμοὶ οὐδέν· τοῦτο ὅτι μάτην ἔπεισιν, ἔχων οὐδὲν εἰς δύναμιν· τινὲς ἄρχοντα βασιλείας περσῶν δαιμονικήν τινα λέγουσι φύσιν, σφόδρα τῆς ἀληθείας κατ᾽ ἐμὲ διαμαρτάνοντες· οὐ γὰρ ἕκαστον ἔθνος ἐφεστώσας ἔχει ἀντικειμένας δυνάμεις· ἢ γὰρ ἂν οὐδὲν χρηστὸν παρ᾽ οὐδενὶ ἐτύγχανεν· εἰ γὰρ δαίμονες μὲν ἐφεστᾶσι, κατὰ δὲ γνώμην ἅπαντα πράττουσι, βούλονται δὲ χρηστὸν οὐδέν, εὔδηλον ὡς οὐδέ τις τῶν ὑπηκόων ἔπραξεν ἄν τι κατὰ νοῦν, ἐκείνων κατ᾽ ἐξουσίαν ἀγόντων τε καὶ φερόντων τὰ πράγματα· ἄλλως τε πῶς ἂν εἴποιεν αὐτοὺς ἐφεστάναι; πότερον οἰκείᾳ γνώμῃ, ἢ τοῦ θεοῦ; καὶ πῶς; ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μὲν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ πῶς οὐχ ὁρῶσι τὸ ἄτοπον, εἴπερ τυραννίδι δαιμόνων τὰ ἀνθρώπινα παραδέδωκε θεός; ἀλλ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν, καὶ πῶς οὐ προνοῶν θεὸς ἐλευθέρους τοὺς ἀνθρώπους καθίστη τῆς ἐκείνων δυναστείας; Καὶ μεθ᾽ ἕτερα. Εὔδηλον τοίνυν ὡς ἄρχοντα περσῶν, ἀγγελικὴν δύναμιν λέγει· ἐπείπερ καὶ ἑκάστῳ ἔθνει καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ ἄγγελος φαίνεται ἐφεστώς τε καὶ παρεδρεύων· κατὰ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ Μωϋσέως εἰρημένον, ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ. — Καὶ μεθ᾽ ἕτερα. Οὐκ εἶπεν ἐμαχήσατό μοι, ἀλλ᾽ οἱονεὶ ἐδικαιολογεῖτο πρός με· ὡς οὐκ εἶσαν ἄξιοι οἱ ἰουδαῖοι τῆς περσῶν ἀπαλλαγῆναι δουλείας· εὐσεβοῦντας μὲν γὰρ πάντων εἶναι κρείττους, ἄτοπον οὐδέν, ὡς Δανιὴλ καὶ οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἀνανίαν γεγένηνται, καὶ οἱ τούτων προπάτορες τῆς αἰγυπτιακῆς ἀπαλλαγέντες δουλείας, καὶ τῶν ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ πάντων κατεσχηκότες· παρανομοῦντας δέ τις δίκαιος ἐξαιρήσεται λόγος; ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ τῇ δυνάμει τῶν κρατούντων δεήσει κρίνεσθαι τὴν ἀρχήν; τούτων τοίνυν οὕτως ἐχόντων, σκοπῶμεν τὰ κατὰ μέρος· ἀρξαμένου μὲν γάρ σου τῆς ἱκεσίας, ἀπεστάλην ἐγὼ γνωρίσων σοι, ὡς τῆς περσῶν δουλείας ἀπαλλαγήσονται οἱ ἰουδαῖοι· ἄχρι δὲ τοῦ νῦν ἕτερος ἄγγελος, ὃς τῶν περσῶν τὴν ἐπιστασίαν ἐγκεχείρισται, τῇ πρὸς ἐμὲ ἐχρήσατο δικαιολογίᾳ, οὐκ ἀξίους τῆς εὐεργεσίας ἀποφαίνων ἰουδαίους..
Topics: Angels, The devil and demons
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.19 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.21Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Ἰδοὺ Μιχαήλ. Ἀλλ᾽ ἔσχον φησὶ Μιχαὴλ τῶν ἀρχαγγέλων ἕνα συνδικαιολογούμενόν μοι τῇ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἐναντιολογίᾳ· οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῷ θείῳ προστάγματι ἐκράτουν, ὁ δὲ ταῖς ἰουδαϊκαῖς ἴσχυε πράξεσι, ἑκάτεροι δὲ τῷ θείῳ ἐχρῶντο νόμῳ· τοῦ γὰρ θεοῦ εὐσεβοῦσί τε καὶ μεταγινώσκουσιν ὑποσχομένου τὴν ἄνοδον, κρατεῖν δεῖν ἔφασκε τὸ πρόσταγμα· οὐκ ἀξίους δὲ τῆς σωτηρίας, ἀλλὰ μένειν ἐπὶ ἀλλοδαπῆς.
Idou Michaēl. All᾽ eschon phēsi Michaēl tōn archangelōn hena syndikaiologoumenon moi tę̄ pros ekeinon enantiologią; hoi men gar tǭ theiǭ prostagmati ekratoun, ho de tais ioudaïkais ischye praxesi, hekateroi de tǭ theiǭ echrōnto nomǭ; tou gar theou eusebousi te kai metaginōskousin hyposchomenou tēn anodon, kratein dein ephaske to prostagma; ouk axious de tēs sōtērias, alla menein epi allodapēs.
"Behold, Michael." But I had Michael, he says, one of the archangels, arguing with me in the dispute against that one. For they relied on the divine command, and he had his strength in the deeds of the Jews, and both used the divine law: for since God had promised the return to those who were godly and repented, the one said the command should prevail; the other that they were not worthy of salvation, but should remain in a foreign land.
Dan 10:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Michael supported Gabriel against the Persian angel's case.
- Scholion on Dan 10:13. Greek restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): Ἰδοὺ Μιχαήλ, ᾿Αλλ᾽ ἔσχον φησὶ Μιχαηλ τῶν ἐεχαγγέλων ἕνα συνδιπαιολογυύμενον μοι τῇ πρὸς ἐχεῖνον ἐναντιολογίρμ᾽ οἱ μὲν γαρ τῷ De προστογ' pen ἐκρότουν, ὁ δὲ ταῖς ἑουδαϊκαῖς ἔσχοε προὶξι" ei, ἑκώτεροι δὲ τῷ ϑείῳ ἐχρῶντο νόμα' τοῦ γάρ θεοῦ εὐσυβοῦσι νὲ καὶ μεταγινωώσκουσιν ὑποσχομένου τὴν ὥνοδον,, κρατεῖν δεῖν ἔφασχε T) πρόσταγμα οὐκ ὠξίους δὲ τῆς φωτυρίας, ἀλλά μένειν dwi ἀλλο- bani. → Ἰδοὺ Μιχαήλ. Ἀλλ᾽ ἔσχον φησὶ Μιχαὴλ τῶν ἀρχαγγέλων ἕνα συνδικαιολογούμενόν μοι τῇ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἐναντιολογίᾳ· οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῷ θείῳ προστάγματι ἐκράτουν, ὁ δὲ ταῖς ἰουδαϊκαῖς ἴσχυε πράξεσι, ἑκάτεροι δὲ τῷ θείῳ ἐχρῶντο νόμῳ· τοῦ γὰρ θεοῦ εὐσεβοῦσί τε καὶ μεταγινώσκουσιν ὑποσχομένου τὴν ἄνοδον, κρατεῖν δεῖν ἔφασκε τὸ πρόσταγμα· οὐκ ἀξίους δὲ τῆς σωτηρίας, ἀλλὰ μένειν ἐπὶ ἀλλοδαπῆς..
Topics: Angels
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.21 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.22Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Ἦλθε βοηθῆσαί μοι. Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν φησὶν εὑρέθη τις ὁ τοῖς ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν χρησόμενος λόγοις, ἥκω τὸ προσταχθὲν εἰς πέρας ἄξων.
Ēlthe boēthēsai moi. Epeidē toinyn phēsin heurethē tis ho tois hyper hymōn chrēsomenos logois, hēkō to prostachthen eis peras axōn.
"He came to help me." Since, then, he says, one was found who would use words on your behalf, I come to bring what was commanded to its fulfilment.
Dan 10:13–14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: With Michael's help Gabriel came to Daniel.
- Scholion on Dan 10:13–14. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): *HA9« βοηϑήσω poi "Exaudi τοίνυν φησὶν rigé- $4 n ὁ vq ὑκὲρ ὑμῶν χρησύμενος λόγοις » ἥκω σὺ προσταχϑὲν εἷς σέρας afwv. → Ἦλθε βοηθῆσαί μοι. Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν φησὶν εὑρέθη τις ὁ τοῖς ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν χρησόμενος λόγοις, ἥκω τὸ προσταχθὲν εἰς πέρας ἄξων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.22 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.23Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Ἤνοιξα τὸ στόμα μου καὶ ἐλάλησα. Ὡμολόγησά φησι τὴν ἀσθένειαν· οὐ γὰρ οἷός τε ἤμην ἐπακοῦσαι τῶν τοῦ ἀγγέλου λόγων, τοῦ προσπεσόντος δέους οὐ μόνον ἀφελομένου τῶν λεγομένων τὴν σύνεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πᾶσάν μοι τὴν κατάστασιν τρόπον τινὰ εἰς τοὐναντίον μεταβαλόντος.
Ēnoixa to stoma mou kai elalēsa. Hōmologēsa phēsi tēn astheneian; ou gar hoios te ēmēn epakousai tōn tou angelou logōn, tou prospesontos deous ou monon aphelomenou tōn legomenōn tēn synesin, alla kai pasan moi tēn katastasin tropon tina eis tounantion metabalontos.
"I opened my mouth and spoke." I confessed, he says, my weakness; for I was not able to listen to the angel's words, since the fear that fell on me not only took away the understanding of what was said, but in a way changed my whole condition into its opposite.
Dan 10:16 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel confessed he was too weak with fear to listen.
- Scholion on Dan 10:16. The staged text broke this scholion into three pieces (10.23–10.25); the continuation is joined here and 10.24 and 10.25 are held. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split into pieces; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): "Moosfa τὸ στόμα μὸν καὶ ἐλάλησᾳ. Ὧμο- → Ἤνοιξα τὸ στόμα μου καὶ ἐλάλησα. Ὡμολόγησά φησι τὴν ἀσθένειαν· οὐ γὰρ οἷός τε ἤμην ἐπακοῦσαι τῶν τοῦ ἀγγέλου λόγων, τοῦ προσπεσόντος δέους οὐ μόνον ἀφελομένου τῶν λεγομένων τὴν σύνεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πᾶσάν μοι τὴν κατάστασιν τρόπον τινὰ εἰς τοὐναντίον μεταβαλόντος..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.23 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.26Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Εἰρήνη σοι. Τουτέστιν οὐ πρὸς τιμωρίαν ἥκω σοι· ἔχεις γὰρ πολλὴν τὴν πρὸς θεὸν παρρησίαν· πίστιν δὲ τῶν λεγομένων, τὴν παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοι διδομένην δύναμιν λάβε. — Ἤρκεσέ φησιν αὐτοῦ τὸ πρόσταγμα λῦσαι τὴν ἀσθένειαν. — Ὅθεν φησὶν οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐπετράπην τοὺς λόγους, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἱκέτευον ἀκοῦσαι ὧν ἧκε διακονησόμενος λόγων.
Eirēnē soi. Toutestin ou pros timōrian hēkō soi; echeis gar pollēn tēn pros theon parrēsian; pistin de tōn legomenōn, tēn par᾽ emou soi didomenēn dynamin labe. — Ērkese phēsin autou to prostagma lysai tēn astheneian. — Hothen phēsin ou monon ouk epetrapēn tous logous, alla kai hiketeuon akousai hōn hēke diakonēsomenos logōn.
"Peace to you." That is, I do not come to punish you; for you have great confidence before God; and receive from me the power given to you to believe what is said. — The command, he says, was enough to dissolve his weakness. — Hence, he says, I not only permitted the words, but begged to hear what he had come to serve.
Dan 10:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The angel's greeting of peace restored Daniel's strength.
- Scholion on Dan 10:19. The staged text broke this scholion at the column end; its continuation (staged as 10.27) is joined here and 10.27 is held. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable and the scholion split at a column end; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): Eigen σοι, Τουτέστιν οὐ med τιμυρίαν ἥκω → Εἰρήνη σοι. Τουτέστιν οὐ πρὸς τιμωρίαν ἥκω σοι· ἔχεις γὰρ πολλὴν τὴν πρὸς θεὸν παρρησίαν· πίστιν δὲ τῶν λεγομένων, τὴν παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοι διδομένην δύναμιν λάβε. — Ἤρκεσέ φησιν αὐτοῦ τὸ πρόσταγμα λῦσαι τὴν ἀσθένειαν. — Ὅθεν φησὶν οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐπετράπην τοὺς λόγους, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἱκέτευον ἀκοῦσαι ὧν ἧκε διακονησόμενος λόγων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.26 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.28Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Εἰ οἶδας ἵνα τί ἦλθον; Τουτέστιν ἄκουσον τῶν λεγομένων, ἐπειδήπερ ἀγνοεῖς, καὶ βούλει ἀκοῦσαι τὰ ἐσόμενα. — Ἴσθι φησὶν ὡς ἀληθῆ τὰ ἤδη πρότερον πρὸς ἐμοῦ εἰρημένα, ὡς ὁ τῶν περσῶν ἄρχων ἀνθίστατο.
Ei oidas hina ti ēlthon? Toutestin akouson tōn legomenōn, epeidēper agnoeis, kai boulei akousai ta esomena. — Isthi phēsin hōs alēthē ta ēdē proteron pros emou eirēmena, hōs ho tōn persōn archōn anthistato.
"Do you know why I came?" That is, listen to what is said, since you do not know and wish to hear what will be. — Know, he says, that what I said before is true: that the prince of the Persians opposed me.
Dan 10:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Gabriel confirms that the prince of Persia opposed him.
- Scholion on Dan 10:20. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): El οἶδας ἵνα τί JA9os ; Τουτέστιν ἄκουσον τῶν λεγομένων, ἐπειδήπερ ἀγνοιῖς, καὶ βούλει ἀκοὺσαι! τεὶ ἐσόμενα, —"JaSi φησὶν ὡς ἀληϑὴ τὰ 5o πρότερον πρὸς ὁμοῦ εἰρημένα, ὡς ὁ τῶν πιῤσῶν ἄρ- xev ὠνθίστατο, → Εἰ οἶδας ἵνα τί ἦλθον; Τουτέστιν ἄκουσον τῶν λεγομένων, ἐπειδήπερ ἀγνοεῖς, καὶ βούλει ἀκοῦσαι τὰ ἐσόμενα. — Ἴσθι φησὶν ὡς ἀληθῆ τὰ ἤδη πρότερον πρὸς ἐμοῦ εἰρημένα, ὡς ὁ τῶν περσῶν ἄρχων ἀνθίστατο..
Topics: Angels
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.28 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.29Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Ὁ ἄρχων τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἤρχετο. Ἀλλὰ κἀκεῖνόν φησι παρελθὼν εὕρισκον πάλιν ἀνθιστάμενον τὸν τῶν ἑλλήνων ἄρχοντα· ἦσαν γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἐν Περσίδι ἀπῳκισμένοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα· ἐδικαιολογοῦντο γάρ φησι πρός με, ὡς οὐ δίκαιοί εἰσιν ἐπανελθεῖν, τῆς μὲν προθεσμίας καλούσης τὴν ἐπάνοδον, ἐκείνων δὲ οὐκ ἐπιθυμούντων.
Ho archōn tōn Hellēnōn ērcheto. Alla kakeinon phēsi parelthōn heuriskon palin anthistamenon ton tōn hellēnōn archonta; ēsan gar ou monon en Persidi apǭkismenoi, alla kai kata tēn Hellada; edikaiologounto gar phēsi pros me, hōs ou dikaioi eisin epanelthein, tēs men prothesmias kalousēs tēn epanodon, ekeinōn de ouk epithymountōn.
"The prince of the Greeks was coming." But passing that one too, he says, I found again opposing me the prince of the Greeks; for they had been settled not only in Persia but also in Greece; for he argued with me that it was not just for them to return, since the appointed time was calling for the return, but they did not desire it.
Dan 10:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The prince of Greece also argued against the return of Jews unwilling to return.
- Scholion on Dan 10:20. Greek restored from the page image.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Tesseract OCR unusable; text read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): Ὃ ἄρχων τῶν Ἕλληνων ἤρχετο. ᾿Αλλὰ κἀκεῖνον quail σαριλθών εὕρισκον πάλιν ἀνθιστάμενον τὸν τῶν ἐλλήνων ἄρχοντα ἦσαν γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἐν Tisgoi- δε ἀπυκισμένοι,, ἀλλ καὶ κατὰ τὴν ᾿Ελλαύξι" ῥδιπα.» ολογοῦντφ γὼρ φησι πρὸς μὲς ὡς οὐ δίκαιοι εἰσὶν ἐπσανελϑεῖν, τὴς μὲν «ροϑεσμίας καλούσες τὴν ζπαἷ- »08o» , ἐκείνων δὲ οὐκ ἐπιθυμούντων. → Ὁ ἄρχων τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἤρχετο. Ἀλλὰ κἀκεῖνόν φησι παρελθὼν εὕρισκον πάλιν ἀνθιστάμενον τὸν τῶν ἑλλήνων ἄρχοντα· ἦσαν γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἐν Περσίδι ἀπῳκισμένοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα· ἐδικαιολογοῦντο γάρ φησι πρός με, ὡς οὐ δίκαιοί εἰσιν ἐπανελθεῖν, τῆς μὲν προθεσμίας καλούσης τὴν ἐπάνοδον, ἐκείνων δὲ οὐκ ἐπιθυμούντων..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.29 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.
10.30Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20
Ἀλλ᾽ ἢ ἀπαγγελῶ σοι. Ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως φησὶ τὸ μετὰ ἀληθείας πάντως ἐσόμενον ἥκω σοι ἀπαγγέλλων. Οὐκ ἔστιν εἷς. Οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκεταί τις ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἱκετεύων τὸν θεὸν τυχεῖν τῆς ἀνόδου, καὶ διὰ τῆς μετανοίας συμπράττων· ἀλλὰ συνεφάπτεταί μοι φησὶν ὁ Μιχαὴλ τούτων μαχομένων, ὥστε τρόπον τινὰ καὶ ἄκοντας τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας αὐτοὺς ἐξαγαγεῖν.
All᾽ ē apangelō soi. All᾽ homōs phēsi to meta alētheias pantōs esomenon hēkō soi apangellōn. Ouk estin heis. Ou gar heurisketai tis en tǭ laǭ hiketeuōn ton theon tychein tēs anodou, kai dia tēs metanoias symprattōn; alla synephaptetai moi phēsin ho Michaēl toutōn machomenōn, hōste tropon tina kai akontas tēs aichmalōsias autous exagagein.
"But I will tell you." Yet, he says, I have come to tell you what will certainly happen, in truth. "There is no one." For no one is found among the people begging God to obtain the return and working with me through repentance; but Michael fights on my side, while these resist, so as in a way to lead them out of captivity even against their will.
Dan 10:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: No one among the people supports Gabriel except Michael.
- Scholion on Dan 10:21. The staged text breaks off after the first words; the rest of the scholion and the next lemma ("There is no one") are restored from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (text lost at the column end in the Tesseract OCR; read afresh from the page image of Mai 1831, p. 20): ᾿ΑΛΛ $ ὠγωγγελῶ den "AX ὅμως φησὶ τὸ → Ἀλλ᾽ ἢ ἀπαγγελῶ σοι. Ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως φησὶ τὸ μετὰ ἀληθείας πάντως ἐσόμενον ἥκω σοι ἀπαγγέλλων. Οὐκ ἔστιν εἷς. Οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκεταί τις ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἱκετεύων τὸν θεὸν τυχεῖν τῆς ἀνόδου, καὶ διὰ τῆς μετανοίας συμπράττων· ἀλλὰ συνεφάπτεταί μοι φησὶν ὁ Μιχαὴλ τούτων μαχομένων, ὥστε τρόπον τινὰ καὶ ἄκοντας τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας αὐτοὺς ἐξαγαγεῖν..
Cite (SBL): Polychronius, Comm. Dan. 10.30 (Mai Script. vet. nova coll. 1 (1831):20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/polychronius-fragmenta/10-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek scholia printed by Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio 1 (1831), read from the page images (the OCR was used only as a guide; corrections logged). No public-domain or FOTC English exists; re-read against the Greek.