Daniel 10:6

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His body also was like beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished bronze, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

Most commentators say this was an angel, while St. Hippolytus says it was the Lord. But verses 10:13-14 show that it must have been an angel.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Chrysolite. Hebrew, "Tharsis. "This precious stone was perhaps greenish.

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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235

And the voice of His words. For all we who now believe in Him declare the words of Christ, as if we spoke by His mouth the things enjoined by Him.

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Jerome

AD 420

For "chrysolite," one of the twelve gems inserted in the oracular breastplate of the high priest, the Hebrew has trs'ys (tharsis) [actually tarsiys or tarshish], 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 most people suppose), substituting one letter for another), nor to some region in India (as (G) Josephus imagines), but simply out to the high seas in general (Jonah 1).

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