{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3779","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"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>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: And so in this way even at that time the adversary operated in the governors and satraps, so that through them he might accomplish his own will and cast the blessed Daniel into the den of lions. And whom they watched closely and seeing him pray three times a day, came forth saying to the king, \"'O king Darius, have you not appointed an edict that any man who should ask from any god and man a petition for thirty days except from you O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?' He said, 'The word is true and the decree of the Medes and the Persians shall not pass away.'\" [Daniel 6:12]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 3.25.1-2</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 12. \"'Hast thou not ordained, O king, that any man who makes a request of any other person besides thee, whether god or man, shall be thrown into the lion-pit?' The king answered them, saying...\" They do not mention Daniel's name, so that when the king has made a general answer as to the order he gave, he may then be bound by his own word, and not deal with Daniel in any other fashion than he has stated.</p><p>\"'What you have said is true, according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which it is not lawful to violate.'\" We repeatedly take note of every passage which speaks of the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, so that we may dispose of the knotty problem of why Daniel speaks of the kingdom in one place as being under Darius, and in another as being under Cyrus.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SIX</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"513e9e15f28d9ed69d441907e249549fb9786f073e53f06a2e68ed022ee1db8c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3779,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ff1cc9ae5445ecd538bdf20ecaa4a072fa643848ba1ccd189cc24627375d2905","translator":null,"work":null}