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# Daniel 12

Daniel 12 is chapter 12 of 14 in the Book of Daniel. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Michael shall stand up for the people of God: with other things relating to Antichrist, and the end of the world.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Daniel 12 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. “But at that time Michael will rise up, the great leader, who stands up for the sons of your people. And a time will come, such as has not been from the time that nations began, even until that time. And, at that time, your people will be saved, all who will be found written in the book.
2. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awaken: some to everlasting life, and others to a reproach that they will always see.
3. But those who have taught will shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who instruct many towards justice, like the stars for unending eternity.
4. But you, Daniel, close the message and seal the book, until the established time. Many will pass through, and knowledge will be increased.”
5. And I, Daniel, looked, and behold, similarly two others stood up, one over here, on the bank of the river, and the other over there, on the other bank of the river.
6. And I said to the man, who was clothed in linen, who stood over the waters of the river, “How long will it be until the end of these wonders?”
7. And I heard the man, who was clothed in linen, who stood over the waters of the river, when he had lifted his right hand and his left hand up to heaven, and had sworn by He who lives forever, that it would be for a time, and times, and half a time. And when the dispersion of the hand of the holy people is completed, all these things will be completed.
8. And I heard and did not understand. And I said, “My lord, what will be after these things?”
9. And he said, “Go, Daniel, for the words are closed and sealed until the predetermined time.
10. Many will be chosen and purified, and, as if by fire, they will be tested, and the impious will act impiously, and none of the impious will understand, yet the teachers will understand.
11. And from the time when the continual sacrifice will be taken away and the abomination of desolation will be set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
12. Blessed is he who waits and reaches until one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
13. But you, go, until the predetermined time, and you will rest and will stand in your allotted place at the end of days.

## Daniel 12 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In tempore autem illo consurget Michaël princeps magnus, qui stat pro filiis populi tui: et veniet tempus quale non fuit ab eo ex quo gentes esse cœperunt usque ad tempus illud. Et in tempore illo salvabitur populus tuus, omnis qui inventus fuerit scriptus in libro.
2. Et multi de his qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere evigilabunt, alii in vitam æternam, et alii in opprobrium ut videant semper.
3. Qui autem docti fuerint, fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti: et qui ad justitiam erudiunt multos, quasi stellæ in perpetuas æternitates.
4. Tu autem Daniel, claude sermones, et signa librum usque ad tempus statutum: plurimi pertransibunt, et multiplex erit scientia.
5. Et vidi ego Daniel, et ecce quasi duo alii stabant: unus hinc super ripam fluminis, et alius inde ex altera ripa fluminis.
6. Et dixi viro qui erat indutus lineis, qui stabat super aquas fluminis: Usquequo finis horum mirabilium?
7. Et audivi virum qui indutus erat lineis, qui stabat super aquas fluminis, cum elevasset dexteram et sinistram suam in cælum, et jurasset per viventem in æternum, quia in tempus, et tempora, et dimidium temporis. Et cum completa fuerit dispersio manus populi sancti, complebuntur universa hæc.
8. Et ego audivi, et non intellexi. Et dixi: Domine mi, quid erit post hæc?
9. Et ait: Vade, Daniel, quia clausi sunt signatique sermones usque ad præfinitum tempus.
10. Eligentur, et dealbabuntur, et quasi ignis probabuntur multi: et impie agent impii, neque intelligent omnes impii: porro docti intelligent.
11. Et a tempore cum ablatum fuerit juge sacrificium, et posita fuerit abominatio in desolationem, dies mille ducenti nonaginta.
12. Beatus qui exspectat, et pervenit usque ad dies mille trecentos triginta quinque.
13. Tu autem vade ad præfinitum: et requiesces, et stabis in sorte tua in finem dierum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 992: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 998: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Know that the greatest service that man can offer to God is to help convert souls.” — St. Rose of Lima, Recorded words, c. 1615 (On this theme: verse 3)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: Viz., in the law of God and true wisdom, which consists in knowing and loving God.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Nov 14, 2027 (computed): Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Daniel 12:1-3

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).