Commentary on Daniel

What it is

Written specifically to answer Porphyry, who had argued that Daniel was composed in the second century BC by someone describing events already past. Jerome reproduces the argument at length before rejecting it, and treats the fourth kingdom as Rome and the little horn as Antichrist.

Why it lasted

The main surviving channel for Porphyry's case, which Jerome preserved by refuting it — and which is now the standard scholarly reading. It is also the commentary every later Western treatment of the four kingdoms is built on.

Scripture it works from

Read it here

The full text is held here and can be read in the reader.

2 sections · complete, from Commentariorum In Danielem Prophetam Liber Unus (tmp465.tmp465.opp-lat1).

Elsewhere

The complete text is held here and can be read in the reader.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.