Document: Commentary on Daniel
Reference: CPL 588, Stegmuller 3358
Incipit: Contra prophetam Danielem
Addressee:Pammachius and Marcella
Date: 407 (Kelly p. 298)
Earliest ms.: Sankt-Gallen, Switzerland: Stiftsbibliothek, 189, f. 321-381 8th century. (Lambert, II: p. 148)
Latin Text: F. Glorie, ed., Hieronymus: Commentariorum in Danielem libri III, CChr.SL vol. 75A (Turnhout 1964)

Migne, ed., Commentariorum In Danielem Prophetam, PL vol. 25, coll. 491-584A.

English Translation:Translation and introduction by Gleason Archer:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_daniel_00_eintro.htm
Also published as G. Archer, Jerome's Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids 1958).

Preface translated in Selections from the preface are translated by W.H. Fremantle, "" in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 495-96.

Notes:This commentary was largely aimed at the criticisms of Porphyry, who took the Book of Daniel as relating to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes.


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