St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (1958)  pp. 15-157

"And as soon as he had opened the door, the king(736) looked upon the table and cried out with a great voice: 'Great art thou, O Bel, and there is no deceit with thee.'"The statement of Scripture in this passage, "He cried out with a great voice," may seem, because of its reference to an idolator ignorant of God, to refute the observation put forth a little previously, that the expression "great voice" is found only in connection with saints. This objection is easily solved by asserting that this particular story is not contained in the Hebrew of the Book of Daniel. If, however, anyone should be able to prove that it belongs (B) in the canon, then we should be obliged to seek out some answer to this objection.

Footnotes moved to the end. Most of the notes were placed in the body of the text in square brackets.

1. 1 Here Jerome gives the Hebrew consonants, by mistake substituting hefor hethin the last letter. Actually the Hebrew word means: "to the choir-leader." (C)

1. ² Not an actual quotation, but a collocation of words from Daniel 1:54-59 according to the Septuagint version. Actually there is no prisaithere, but the verb appears as the compound kataprise.

1. ³ Reading Ecclesiaeinstead of the meaningless Ecclesiamof the text.

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