{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3696","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 14. \"Do ye not serve my gods, and do you not worship the golden statue which I have set up?...\" Other authorities assert that it is the custom of Holy Scripture to speak of the one and same idol in the plural, just like the verse in Exodus concerning the calf: \"These are thy gods, O Israel, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt\" (Exodus 32:4). Also in the Book of Kings, where Jeroboam is establishing the golden calf in Bethel, he is said to have fashioned idols (1 Kings 12:26-28). On the other hand a plurality of demons are addressed in the singular number, as in Isaiah: \"He bows himself down and worships it, and as he makes his vow he says, 'Thou art my God!'\" (Isaiah 44:17).<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THREE</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"093e5bbb84a131ded9087bf4faf1e0f60f67ea0f29abe10406e067b609bfd2b9","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3696,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"644dd1189486736e2275b5d762d4527b6aadbaba5a3e95c6f7a857c272232539","translator":null,"work":null}