Daniel 3:6
But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of burning fire.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si quis autem non prostratus adoraverit, eadem hora mittetur in fornacem ignis ardentis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὃς ἂν μὴ προσκυνήσῃ, αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐμβληθήσεται εἰς τὴν κάμινον τοῦ πυρὸς τὴν καιομένην.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּמַן דִּי לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד בַּהּ שַׁעֲתָ֣א יִתְרְמֵ֔א לְגֽוֹא אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily IV
8. Consider, moreover, how the crown of this victory was woven by the adversaries, and the enemies themselves were made witnesses of this trophy. For “Nebuchadnezzar,” it says, “sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image, and they were all gathered together.” The enemy prepares the theatre, and he himself collects together the spectators, and prepares the lists; a theatre too, not of chance persons, or of some private individuals, but of all those who were honourable and in authority, to the end that their testimony may be worthy of credit with the multitude. They had come summoned for one thing; but they all departed having beheld another thing. …
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 4:1,2
Let us learn not to sink under affliction, nor to repine; for look at this blessed saint. He had been scourged, and sorely scourged, for it is said, “When they had laid many stripes upon them.” He had been bound too, and that again sorely, for the jailor cast him into the inner ward, and with extraordinary security. And though he was in so many perils, at midnight, when even the most wakeful are asleep with sleep, another and a stronger bond upon them, they chanted and sang praise unto the Lord. What can be more adamantine than these souls? They bethought them how that the holy Children sang even in fire and furnace. ( Dan. iii. 1-30 .) Perhaps they thus reasoned with themselves, “we have as yet suffered nothing like that.”