Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
Ver. 3. Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel.] That oracular man, who was πανσοφος, as one saith of Homer, και παντα ανθρωπεια επισταμενος, the most wise and knowing man alive. His name was now up at Babylon; and Ezekiel, his contemporary, commendeth him; so doth the Baptist, Christ; and Peter, Paul. Eph 3:15 Though there had been a breach between them, Gal 2:14 there was no envy. But such another braggart as this in the text was Richardus de Sancto Victore, a monk of Paris, who said that himself was a better divine than any prophet or apostle of them all. a But how much better, saith Gregory, b is humble ignorance than proud knowledge!
a Paraei, Hist. Sac. Medul.
b Moral., 17: