Daniel 2:17
And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias his companions:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ingressus est domum suam, Ananiæque et Misaëli et Azariæ, sociis suis, indicavit negotium,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Δανιὴλ εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τῷ Ἁνανίᾳ καὶ τῷ Μεισαὴλ καὶ τῷ Ἀζαρίᾳ τοῖς φίλοις αὐτοῦ ἐγνώρισεν τὸ ῥῆμα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֱדַ֥יִן דָּֽנִיֵּ֖אל לְבַיְתֵ֣הּ אֲזַ֑ל וְ֠לַחֲנַנְיָה מִֽישָׁאֵ֧ל וַעֲזַרְיָ֛ה חַבְר֖וֹהִי מִלְּתָ֥א הוֹדַֽע
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew I. 17
For it was not for rewards and recompenses that they did what they did, but out of love alone; and yet they were in captivity too, and in slavery, and had enjoyed no good thing. Yea, they had lost their country, and their freedom, and all their possessions. For tell me not of their honors in the king’s courts, for holy and righteous as they were, they would have chosen ten thousand times rather to have been beggars at home, and to have been partakers of the blessings in the temple. “For I had rather,” it is said, “be an outcastin the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of sinners.” And “one day in thy courts is better than thousands.” They would have chosen then ten thousand times rather to be outcasts at home, than kings in Babylon. And this is manifest, from what they declare even in the furnace, grieving at their continuance in that country. …