Daniel #catechesis/bible/daniel
Old Testament · Major Prophets · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Daniel 1 — Daniel and his companions are taken into the palace of the king of Babylon: they abstain from his meat and wine, and succeed better with pulse and water. Their excellence and wisdom.
- Daniel 2 — Daniel, by divine revelation, declares the dream of Nebuchadnezzer, and the interpretation of it. He is highly honoured by the king.
- Daniel 3 — Nebuchadnezzer set up a golden statue; which he commands all to adore: the three children for refusing to do it are cast into the fiery furnace; but are not hurt by the flames. Their prayer and canticle of praise.
- Daniel 4 — Nebuchadnezzer’s dream, by which the judgments of God are denounced against him for his pride, is interpreted by Daniel, and verified by the event.
- Daniel 5 — Baltasar’s profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.
- Daniel 6 — Daniel is promoted by Darius: his enemies procure a law forbidding prayer; for the transgression of this law Daniel is cast into the lions’ den: but miraculously delivered.
- Daniel 7 — Daniel’s vision of the four beasts, signifying four kingdoms: of God sitting on his throne: and of the opposite kingdoms of Christ and Antichrist.
- Daniel 8 — Daniel’s vision of the ram and the he goat interpreted by the angel Gabriel.
- Daniel 9 — Daniel’s confession and prayer: Gabriel informs him concerning the seventy weeks to the coming of Christ.
- Daniel 10 — Daniel having humbled himself by fasting and penance sees a vision, with which he is much terrified; but he is comforted by an angel.
- Daniel 11 — The angel declares to Daniel many things to come, with regard to the Persian and Grecian kings: more especially with regard to Antiochus as a figure of Antichrist.
- Daniel 12 — Michael shall stand up for the people of God: with other things relating to Antichrist, and the end of the world.
- Daniel 13 — The history of Susanna and the two elders.
- Daniel 14 — The history of Bel, and of the great serpent worshipped by the Babylonians.
[!info] Source
New Advent na2 — Septuagint/Greek · Douay-Rheims · Clementine Vulgate.
