{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3782","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"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>: But it was so that he may not be rescued by man, and his deliverance not be considered to be by the favor of the king, but rather that the work of God may be shown to be accomplished in him. And so it was already evening and the king was conversing on his behalf with the satraps when they spoke saying, \"Know, O king, that for the Medes and Persians, the decree of every edict and statute which the king has set, may not be changed,\" [Daniel 6:15] in this word they wanted to shame the king, lest the decree which had been marked out by him, may not be certain and the rest of the things which were set out by him may be considered to be invalid.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 3.25.5</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 15. \"But those men, understanding the king's intent, said to him: 'Be it known to thee, O king, that no law of the Medes and Persians, nor any decree which the king has enacted, is capable of alteration.'\" Just as the king understood that the princes were making their accusation out of motives of envy, so also they for their part understood what the king's purpose was, namely that he wished to rescue Daniel from imminent death. And so they allege that according to the law of the Medes and Persians, the commands of a king cannot be nullified.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SIX</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: You do not have the authority to overturn what you have prescribed, the laws of Medes and Persians ordering that the laws passed by the previous king be fulfilled. Under pressure both from the compelling logic of the words and from the number of the accusers, the king surrendered blessed Daniel to the lions.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 6:15</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"972a73177c4e0c36a9dffb61e0c10f1be96b2bfe0b31a6f0b8c7348e31befe88","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3782,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"08636351b4839493c2faaec1b1318a925a642448f43e8b6d39cd695f54d3338a","translator":null,"work":null}