Daniel 3:99
The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders toward me. It hath seemed good to me therefore to publish
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Signa, et mirabilia fecit apud me Deus excelsus. Placuit ergo mihi prædicare
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὰ σημεῖα καὶ τὰ τέρατα ἃ ἐποίησεν μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ὁ θεὸς ὁ ὕψιστος ἤρεσεν ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι ὑμῖν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Daniel 3:32
- אָֽתַיָּא֙ וְתִמְהַיָּ֔א דִּ֚י עֲבַ֣ד עִמִּ֔י אֱלָהָ֖א עליא שְׁפַ֥ר קָֽדָמַ֖י לְהַחֲוָיָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 4:1,2
Again, observe also the piety of the Children: they showed no indignation, no anger, no gain-saying, but they came forth. Had they regarded it as an act of vengeance that they had been thrown into the furnace, they would have been grieved against the man who had cast them in; as it is, there is nothing of the kind; but, as though they were going forth from Heaven itself, so went they forth. And what the Prophet says of the Sun, that “He is as a bridegroom coming forth out of his chamber,” ( Ps. xix. 5 .) one would not go amiss in saying also of them. But though he goes forth thus, yet came they forth there more gloriously than he, for he indeed comes forth to enlighten the world with natural light, they to enlighten the world in a different way, I mean, spiritually. …