Aphrahat the Persian Sage : Daniel also was persecuted as Jesus was persecuted.… Daniel they cast into the pit of lions, and he was delivered and came up out of its midst uninjured; and Jesus they sent down into the pit of the abode of the dead, and he ascended, and death had not dominion over him. Concerning Daniel they expected that when he had fallen into the pit he would not come up again; and concerning Jesus they said, "Since he has fallen, he shall not rise again." From [harming] Daniel the mouths of the ravenous and destructive lions were closed; and from [harming] Jesus was closed the mouth of death, [though] ravenous and destructive of [living] forms. They sealed the pit of Daniel and guarded it with diligence; and they guarded the grave of Jesus with diligence, as they said, "Set guards to watch at the tomb." When Daniel came up, his accusers were ashamed; and when Jesus rose, all they who had crucified him were ashamed. — DEMONSTRATIONS 21:18 Ephrem the Syrian : Since a simple punishment was not sufficient for those culprits, in order to balance the offense they had brought against a righteous man, after being condemned to the same punishment, they were thrown to the beasts together with their wives and children. — COMMENTARY ON Daniel 6:24 Hippolytus of Rome : Then, "the king spoke and they brought the men who accused Daniel and they themselves and their sons and their wives were cast into the den of lions, and they did not reach the bottom of the den before the lions mastered them, and they ground all their bones." [Daniel 6:24] And so they who have trusted in a human king and in wealth, they themselves dug a trench, and they fell in it for their destruction. And then this judgment happened to the three boys, who though being in the furnace of fire were not mastered, but the fire passed through to the outside and consumed the Chaldeans. For the eyes of God righteously assigns worthy judgment to men. As also befell Haman, who wished to annihilate on one day Mordecai and his race, and having readied fifty cubit gallows for Mordecai, Haman himself with all his household were hanged on it. Now they who accused Daniel and handed him over as food for beasts, they themselves were destroyed by lions. — Commentary on Daniel 3.30.1-6