Daniel 12
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Daniel 12:1
"And the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name." For he has their names written in the book of life. "He calls his own sheep by name." Because of this the apostle says, "The Lord knows who are his." "And he leads them out. And when he has led out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice..." — TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 45:6.3
Daniel 12:2
Nor is there any real contradiction between John's "all who are in the tombs" and Daniel's "many" in place of "all." As an illustration of this, notice how, in one place, God said to Abraham, "I have made you the father of many nations" and in another, "In your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed." — City of God 20.23
Daniel 12:7
The word times may seem an indefinite plural in our language [Latin], but the Greek texts (and, so I am told, the Hebrew texts as well) show that "times" is written in the dual number and so means "two times." — City of God 20.23
Daniel 12:7
The last of all persecutions, the antichrist's, is to go on for three and a half years.… Now the question, quite reasonably, presents itself: Should these three and a half years, brief as they are, be included in the thousand years of the devil's binding and the saints' reign with Christ, or are they outside the thousand and superadded to them?… We conclude that the reign of Christ with his saints will be longer than the devil's bonds and imprisonment, for, even when he is released, they will continue to reign with their King, the Son of God, for these three and a half years. — City of God 20.13