Толкование на группу стихов: Дан: 2: 30-30
VISIONS ARE MANIFESTED TO THE SPIRIT. AUGUSTINE: The one who interprets what another has seen is more a prophet than the one who had seen. . . . Less a prophet is he who . . . sees in spirit only the signs of the things signified, and a greater prophet is he who is granted only an understanding of images. But the greatest prophet is he who is endowed with both gifts, namely, that of seeing in spirit the symbolic likeness of corporeal objects and that of understanding them with the vital power of the mind. Such a one was Daniel. His preeminence was tested and established when he not only told the dream he had had but also explained the meaning of it. For the corporeal images themselves were produced in his spirit, and an understanding of them was revealed in his mind. I am using the word spirit, therefore, in the sense in which Paul uses it, where he distinguishes it from the mind: “I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also.” Here he implies that signs of things are formed in the spirit and that an understanding of the signs shines forth in the mind. ON THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 12.9.20