Daniel — Chapter 10
Daniel's preparatory vision at the Tigris: a man clothed in linen with body like beryl, face like lightning, eyes like flaming torches, arms and legs like burnished bronze. Lapide's commentary is structured around the question of whether this figure is an angel (Gabriel or Michael) or the pre-Incarnate Son of God — he argues for Christ, citing Origen, Methodius, and the parallels with Apoc. 1:13-16.
Verse 5
Behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz — his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches: Lapide compares this description verse-by-verse to Apoc. 1:13-16 (the glorified Christ) and argues they describe the same divine Person, thus confirming the pre-Incarnate Son of God as the speaker in Daniel 10-12.
Verse 13
The prince of the Persian kingdom withstood the angel for twenty-one days until Michael came to help: Lapide develops his angelology of national patron angels (angeli custodes gentium), drawing on Gregory's Homilies on the Gospels and Pseudo-Dionysius's Celestial Hierarchy. He reads the angelic conflict as the spiritual dimension of historical-political struggles.