Commentary
Commentary on Daniel
Hippolytus
Hippolytus’s early third-century commentary on Daniel, known in English through fragments translated in the Ante-Nicene Fathers. It reads the image and beasts of Daniel as successive empires and counts six thousand years from Adam to the end.
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Edition and location
S. D. F. Salmond translation, Ante-Nicene Fathers V (1886)
Fragments on Daniel II, sections 3–7