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Daniel 12:12

Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017
He means that he is blessed who waits for forty-five days beyond the predetermined number, for it is within that period that our Lord and Savior is to come in His glory. But the reason for the forty-five days of inaction after the slaying of the Antichrist is a matter which rests in the knowledge of God; unless, of course, we say that the rule of the saints is delayed in order that their patience may be tested. (St. Jerome) This period of time could be related to the time after the slaying of the Antichrist in Daniel 7:11-12.

Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017
Joakim being a stranger in Babylon, obtains Susannah in marriage. And she was the daughter of Chelcias the priest 2kgs 22:8, who found the book of the law in the house of the Lord, when Josiah the king commanded him to purify the holy of holies. His brother was Jeremiah the prophet, who was carried, with the remnant that was left after the deportation of the people to Babylon, into Egypt, and dwelt in Taphnæ; and, while prophesying there, he was stoned to death by the people. (St. Hippolytus) In the Church there are three models of chastity that everyone must imitate: Joseph, Susanna, and Mary. May men imitate Joseph, women, Susanna and the virgin Mary. (St. Chromatius)

Jerome

AD 420
He means that he is blessed who waits for forty-five days beyond the predetermined number, for it is within that period that our Lord and Savior is to come in His glory. But the reason for the forty-five days of inaction after the slaying of the Antichrist is a matter which rests in the knowledge of God; unless, of course, we say that the rule of the saints is delayed in order that their patience may be tested. Porphyry explains this passage in the following way, that the forty-five days beyond the one thousand two hundred and ninety signify the interval of victory over the generals of Antiochus, or the period when Judas Maccabaeus fought with bravery and cleansed the Temple and broke the idol to pieces, offering blood-sacrifices in the Temple of God. He might have been correct in this statement if the Book of Maccabees had recorded that the Temple was polluted over a period of three and a half years instead of just three years (I Mace. 4).

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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