{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3652","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"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>: Therefore, so that the Chaldeans, who had plotted in some way, would not deceive the king with words of deceit, Nebuchadnezzar, who was sorely pricked, said to them, \"'I myself know, in truth, that you are buying time, because you see that the matter has departed from me. And so if you do not report to me the dream, I know that you have contrived to say a false and twisted word before me until the matter is forgotten.' The Chaldeans answered the king saying, 'There is not a man on earth who is able to make known the king's concern, because every great king and ruler does not ask such a matter of an enchanter, magician, sorcerer, or Chaldean, because the word which the king asks is difficult, and there is not another being who is able to proclaim it before the king, except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh.'\" [Daniel 2:8-11]</p><p>After these things were said, the king, having become angered, \"ordered that all the wise men of Babylon be killed. And the edict went out that the wise men be killed.\" [Daniel 2:12-13]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 2.3</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: While the demand in these words was high-handed and insane, the accusation was very true: You want to learn what the dream was, he is saying, so as to hatch in common some false interpretation and trick me as usual, using the lapse in time as an advantage and waiting for the moment of fulfillment.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 2:8-9</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d187a96ca3bedcdd2e68223261b2a53cb23df784338ce2741e7fb357aea27f81","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3652,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d349303a7e7e008016290c171ed1033498227101bd44256ff55896e364ab72fe","translator":null,"work":null}