{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3758","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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 the blessed Daniel, not taking pleasure in earthly gifts nor being lifted up at kingly glory answered, \"Let your gifts, O king, be to you and give the present of your house to another. But I shall read the writing and I shall make known the interpretation to you.\" [Daniel 5:17]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 3.17.2</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verse 17. \"To this Daniel made answer before the king, saying: 'Thy gifts be unto thyself, and bestow the presents of thy house upon someone else...'\" We should follow the example of a man like Daniel, who despised the honor and gifts of a king, and who without any reward even in that early day followed the Gospel injunction: \"Freely have ye received, freely give.\" (Matthew 10:8) And besides, when one is announcing sad tidings, it is unbecoming for him willingly to accept gifts.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER FIVE</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Why then, you ask, being so humble did Daniel not repel either the adoration that was paid him by the king or the offerings? This I will not say, for it is sufficient for me simply to mention the question, and the rest I leave to you, that at least in this way I may stir up your thoughts.… For that [Daniel] did not do this out of arrogance is evident from his saying, \"your gifts be to yourself.\"<br/><i>— ON THE EPISTLES TO THE HEBREWS, HOMILY 26:8-9</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2f688befc683142a2df16b7097a1c48060e20ffcd1e29904772870059116a978","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3758,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d9b0252f3de389bc357876563f6aa4eb494d92a849815325e444299ad54fd13f","translator":null,"work":null}