{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3603","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>: To this Scripture says, \"There was a garden adjoining his house and it happened as the people departed in the middle of the day, that Susannah entered and walked around in the garden of her husband, and the two elders watched her everyday and became lustful for her.\" [Susannah 7-8] Therefore the chiefs of the Jews now want to mutilate these things of the book of Daniel, claiming that these things did not happen in Babylon, because they are ashamed at what happened under the elders at that time, and thus they fail to recognize the administration of the Spirit.</p><p>As the divine writings are not respecters of persons and with openness display all things, not only the righteous works of men, which after they did them they were justified, but also the terrible things which occurred under them, upon which they were disfigured, they died, so that those who have the fear of God imitate the righteous and in this way partake in righteousness, but those who do the opposite have before their eyes what is destined for them, vengeance before the presence of God.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 1.15.1-3</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 8. \"And they were inflamed with lust for her, and they perverted their own mind and turned their eyes away that they might not look toward heaven nor remember just judgments.\" What the Greeks call pathos we render more correctly by \"emotion\" than by \"passion.\" And so it was this emotion, this lustful desire, which aroused or even smote the hearts of the elders. But in order that they might lay some basis for it in their hearts and might plan how to satisfy their desires, they perverted their own minds. And as their minds were subverted, they turned away their eyes that they might not regard heavenly things or remember righteous judgments, or God, or honor, or character, the factors for good which are inherent in all men. \"And behold, Susanna was taking a walk according to her custom.\" It has been stated already that Susanna was actually in the habit of taking walks in the mornings. For the sake of pleasing those people who seek out Scriptural precedent for everything we do, it would not be inappropriate to seize upon this passage about taking walks, and say that it is a good thing for a person to take walks for the invigorating of his body. Origen says that he has taken this particular passage from the Septuagint; by this statement he shows that he has not discussed the rest of the chapter on the basis of the Septuagint translation.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THIRTEEN</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: The Greek word pathos is better rendered for us with the term \"disturbance\" rather than with the term \"passion.\" Therefore this disturbed and covetous desire stimulated, or rather it churned violently, in the heart of the elders. But because their souls were like plowed soil and they could only think about getting what they desired, their own feelings became perverted, and, once perverted, their eyes were turned toward earth so that they did not see the celestial truths, and they forgot about sound judgment, they forgot about God, about honesty, about the nature oriented toward the good inborn in every person.<br/><i>— STROMATEIS 10 (via ON Daniel 13:8b-9)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d7b3c872b3747c8c3d5dbc85c59048bc9447c7d0b0d90626711f9832bb8a9c4c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3603,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fdcb766334bca2871d102f267c38a8f4a62a53697df717fa08c78281bb5f5916","translator":null,"work":null}