of one and the same substance, standing out from both Scriptures. "And all flesh shall come into sight." To what flesh, if not entirely to that which is to be delivered up to punishment, and yet is to be deemed worthy of the heavenly vision, concerning which it was said above: "All flesh shall come to worship before me"? May we also be deemed worthy of this through the prayers and intercessions of all the saints. Amen.
FRAGMENTS ON DANIEL
(MAI, Bibliotheca nova Patrum, IV, 314)B 2. DAN. III, 49. Concerning the word of the Lord dividing the flame of fire. In Babylon the flame of fire was indeed divided, being cut asunder at the command of God; and it received therein a most pleasant breath and relief, just as in the shade of trees and a quiet station, it offered enjoyment to the youths; for it became, he says, as the sound of a rustling dewy breeze.
B 3. DAN. VII, 13. As the Son of man. Eusebius of Caesarea. I believe that the universal judgment is clearly announced, when all men from the foundation of the world shall be made to stand before the tribunal of Christ. But after the resurrection of the dead, and the sentence passed upon all, He who was seen by Daniel, the Son of man, shall appear upon the clouds, that He may receive from the Father the power and kingdom over all peoples and tribes, both ageless and unending; as our Savior Himself teaches concerning Himself, saying: "And when the Son of man shall come in His majesty, and all the angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the seat of His majesty, and all nations shall be gathered before Him," and so forth. These things, therefore, harmonize with the testimonies which we now have in hand from the prophet Daniel, in whom it is said: "And behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one as the Son of man"; and, "He reached even to the Ancient of days, and was offered to Him, and to Him was given the sovereignty and the honor and the kingdom," and so forth.
D 4. DAN. VII, 14. To Him was given the sovereignty. Eusebius. The prophet prophesies not only the kingdom of the Son of man, but also other matters of which he speaks.
D 5. DAN. VII, 18. And they shall receive the kingdom. Eusebius of Caesarea. Namely, they themselves also shall reign with God. But who are these, if not the heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ? To whom also the kingdom of the heavens is promised—a kingdom which shall be established after the four kingdoms that were shown to the prophet, concerning which we have just discoursed briefly. From this, I think, the divine apostle Paul took the occasion
A of writing regarding the second coming of Christ in this manner: "For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of the trumpet of God, will descend from heaven," and so forth. The same apostle clearly sets forth, in accordance with the prophecy, the final arrival and destruction of the Antichrist, and subsequently the glorious presence of our Savior, saying: "Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that B when I was still with you I told you this?" and the rest. Such things the wondrous Apostle set forth in his discourse concerning the end of the world, confirming what was prophesied through the prophet Daniel concerning the Antichrist and the glorious kingdom of our Savior.
6. DAN. IX, 26. He shall be blotted out, the anointing. Eusebius. Even now, he reproves the unlawful and illicit anointing, because he says that the same thing happened concerning the sacrifices and the covenant. For these things were rightly and lawfully performed before the passion of our Savior, because the heavenly power was still guarding the holy places. But those same things were soon removed, C on account of that perfect and God-worthy sacrifice, by which he offered himself for our sins. For he is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, a victim surely for all men. With the new mysteries and the new covenant having been initiated, the old vanished. For as soon as that oracle was fulfilled, "And he shall strengthen the covenant with many for one week," the old covenant ceased. D
The Greek Catena, edited by J. A. Cramer in 1844 at Oxford, exhibits under the name of Eusebius quite ample fragments on Matthew and John. These the collector derived word-for-word from Eusebius’s *Evangelical Questions* edited above. Furthermore, many other good things which pertain to the same evangelists and to Mark, inserted in the catenae of Nicetas, Possinus, and Corderius, are read both above in the Supplement to the Questions on Stephen, and in the following commentary on Luke. EDIT. PATR.