p. 768).
CHRYSOSTOM (?? 407), _In Danielem_, cap. XIII. (XIV.) comments on Bel and
the Dragon as part of the book, seemingly without reserve or alteration
of tone.
PRUDENTIUS (?? 410), in his _Cathemerinon_, IV., has several verses on the
den episode, of which this is one:
"Cernit forte procul dapes ineuntas
Quas messoribus Habakkuk propheta
Agresti bonus exhibebat arte."
JEROME (?? 420), though excluding this and the other Additions from the
canon, according to what he writes in his preface to Daniel, "veru
anteposito easque jugulante subjecimus," retains it in his Bible. In his
_Onomasticon de Nominibus Hebraicis_ he includes under Daniel, Astyages,
Bel, Ambacum, without distinction from the rest of the names in Daniel.
But for this last work he was chiefly indebted to Eusebius, ? ?µ?„??¶ ?„??¶??
??????????¶?? ??????????¬?„?‰??. (_D.C.B._ II. 336a).
HESYCHIUS OF JERUSALEM (?? 438), in his ???„???‡?·?????? on the XII prophets, says
of Habakkuk that, whether he was the same Habakkuk as an angel carried
to Babylon, ?µ??°???µ??–?? ?„??? ???±?†????‚ ??????? ??”?‡?‰.
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