The Spanish Jesuit Benito Perera wrote a
commentary on Daniel in 1588. He commented on Daniel 7:25 as follows: Latin
original of Benito Perera commentary 1588: page 377 on Daniel 7:25: Daniel 7:25 Page 377 Traditur preterea
illud cornu tentasse mutare tempora et leges id est tollere temporales
festivitates Iudaeorum rituique, ac ceremonias legales, hoc ipsum Christus
facere agressus est, violato saepius sabbato, contemptisque, legis Mosaicae
ceremoniis. Quin, eius sectatores, legis obsentuantiam non folum neglexerunt
sed etiam damnarunt et omnino interdixerunt. Quid multa? Cornu illud English
Translation of Perera, 1588: page 377 still talking about the Little Horn of
Daniel 7:25 It
is also said that that horn tried to change the times and the laws, that is to
say, to remove the temporal festivals and rites of the Jews, and the legal
ceremonies. Indeed, his followers did not neglect the obscenity of the law, but
even condemned it and forbade it altogether. What a lot? That horn
Latin
original of Benito Perera commentary 1588: page 379 on Daniel 7:25: Quo licet intelligere summum pontificem
qui vicarius Christi summam in regno eius potestatem habet non tain
corporaliter quam spiritualiter toto orbe regnare et hac spirituali domination
cunctis mundi principibus precellere et in universum orbem terrarium habere
imperium, Qua propter et si ditionem terrena ab imperatore Romano potuit
accipere, attamen spiritualem, propter quam est summus Pontifex, et totius
Ecclesiae monarcha, nec ab hominibus, nec ab angelisu potuit accipere. Is
directly from God = est a deo
immediate (in the margin of 379 about the papacy institution)
English
Translation of Perera, 1588: page 379 still talking about the Little Horn of
Daniel 7:25 he says: Wherefore may it be understood that the supreme pontiff, who is the
vicar of Christ in his kingdom, has the supreme power not only to rule
physically but spiritually over the whole world, and by this spiritual dominion
to preside over all the princes of the world, and to have dominion over the
entire world, because of which and if he could receive earthly dominion from
the Roman emperor. yet the spiritual, for which he is the supreme pontiff, and
the monarch of the whole Church, he could receive neither from men nor from
angels.
Perera,
1588: page 380 Christu dominum nostrum non esse
significatum per cornum parvulum probatur It is proved that Christ our Lord is not
signified by the little horn Source: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-pb8X1__CtMC Keep in mind that in 1612, 1618 and 1630
Andreas Helwig explained that vicarius filii dei = vicarius Christi = 600+60+6
in Latin counting.