Daniel 10
Ephrem the Syrian · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Daniel 10:2
He says that the mourning had been protracted "for three weeks," because he had fasted for all that space of time. He calls fasting "mourning" in the same sense used by our Lord, when he defended himself and his disciples from the detractions of the Pharisees. When the disciples were reproached by the Pharisees because they were not fasting, the Lord answered, "The wedding guests cannot mourn," that is, fast, "as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they"? — COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 10:1-2
Daniel 10:11
"Daniel, pay attention," … that is, learn and weigh carefully the mysteries of those things whose results you asked with constant prayer and with three weeks of mourning and fast. — COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 10:9-11
Daniel 10:12
"From the first day," that is, from that day when you began to fast, being inflamed by the desire to learn those things that you asked, so that you persevered in praying and supplicating before your God. "Your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words": your prayers led me, as well, to prepare a plan for the salvation of your people according to your vows. — COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 10:12
Daniel 10:21
The angel reported these events, so that Daniel might know that there were not many among the Jews who asked God for their return, nor did the angels approve Daniel's vow, nor was everything you requested, Daniel, accepted by the angels, in order that the freedom of human will not be restricted. — COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 10:21