Daniel 3:27

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25 “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, ^awalking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like ^bthe Son of God.”

Nebuchadnezzar Praises God

26 Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of the ^aMost High God, come out, and come here.” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego came from the midst of the fire.

27 And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together, and they saw these men ^aon whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.

28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His ^aAngel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!

29 ^aTherefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the ^bGod of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be ^ccut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; ^dbecause there is no other God who can deliver like this.”

30 Then the king¹ promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.

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Daniel 3:27

Upon whose bodies the fire had no power - The heathens boasted that their priests could walk on burning coals unhurt; and Virgil mentions this of the priests of Apollo of Soracte: -

Summe Deum, sancti custos Soractis Apollo!

Quem primi colimus, cui pineus ardor acervo

Pascitur; et medium, freti pietate, per ignem

Cultores multa premimus vestigia pruna .

Virg. Aen. 11:785.

O Phoebus, guardian of Soracte' s woods

And shady hills; a god above the gods;

To whom our natives pay the rites divine,

And burn whole crackling groves of hallowed pine;

Walk through the fire in honor of thy name,

Unhurt, unsinged, and sacred from the flame.

Pitts.

But Varro tells us that they anointed the soles of their feet with a species of unguent that preserved them from being burnt. Very lately a female showed many feats of this kind, putting red hot iron upon her arms, breasts, etc., and passing it over her hair without the slightest inconvenience; but in the case of the three Hebrews all was supernatural, and the king and his officers well knew it.

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