{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3687","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":48,"verse_to":48},"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>: For since he himself humbled himself and declared himself to be the least of all men, the king extolled him and appointed him ruler of all the lands of Babylon. In which manner Pharaoh also did to Joseph, having then appointed him ruler of all the land of Egypt. For none of the men in all Egypt was found who was able to proclaim visions to Pharaoh, except Joseph alone, and none of the wise men in Babylon was able to declare the visions to the king, except Daniel alone.</p><p>For God leads forth holy men to himself from generation to generation, who is obligated to be glorified in all the world.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 2.9</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 48. \"Then the king elevated Daniel to a high position, and gave him many great gifts and set him up as governor over all the provinces of Babylon...\" In this matter also the slanderous critic of the Church has ventured to castigate the prophet because he did not reject the gifts and because he willingly accepted honor of the Babylonians. He fails to consider the fact that it was for this very purpose that the king had beheld the dream and that the secrets of its interpretation were revealed by a mere lad, that Daniel might increase in importance and that in the place of captivity he might become ruler over all the Chaldeans, to the end that the omnipotence of God might be made known. We read that this same thing happened in the case of Joseph at the court of Pharaoh and in Egypt (Genesis 41:38-43), and also in the case of Mordecai at the court of Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1-2). The purpose was that the Jews, as captives and sojourners in each of these nations, might receive encouragement as they beheld men of their own nation constituted as governors over the Egyptians or the Chaldeans, as the case might be.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TWO</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: This is itself divine guidance. It is most fitting that the subjects benefit from the piety of the ruler: so also at one point God had done the same with Joseph.… He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold as a slave.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 2:48</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"da3aa825f92ea565c6c2284930f5575b58b67e6a73a33c4e8ce32be8f7b9611c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3687,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3fc5ad16f7c1f896a69e1d88df91c1247055c1d23d5c497a7392f326d4f255c3","translator":null,"work":null}