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Jerome’s Commentary on Daniel is in many ways one of the most interesting and significant of his expository works on the biblical prophets. Because of the wealth of factual information which he includes, the many details concerning obscure phases of ancient history, and the copious quotations from early authors whose works have long since perished, Jerome’s Daniel is a work frequently consulted...

For “chrysolite,” one of the twelve gems inserted in the oracular breastplate of the high priest, the Hebrew has trs̈yṡ (tharsis) [actually tarsīys or tarshīsh], a word which Theodotion and Symmachus simply left unchanged in transcription; but the Septuagint called it “the sea,” according to the usage in the Psalms: “With a violent gale Thou dashest the ships of Tharsis in pieces,” i.e., “the ships of the sea” (Ps. 47:8). Jonah, also, was desirous of fleeing, not to Tarsus, the Cilician city (as
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