{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3731","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: Often, when means are abundant, and many things can be done for subordinates to admire, the mind exalts itself in thought, and fully provokes to itself the anger of the judge, though not breaking out in overt acts of iniquity. For he who judges is within; that which is judged is within. When, then, in heart we transgress, what we are doing within ourselves is hidden from men, but yet in the eyes of the judge we sin. For neither did the King of Babylon then first stand guilty of elation when he came to utter words of elation, inasmuch as even before, when he had given no utterance to his elation, he heard the sentence of reprobation from the prophet's mouth. For he had already wiped off the fault of the pride he had been guilty of, when he proclaimed to all the nations under him the omnipotent God whom he found himself to have offended. But after this, elevated by the success of his dominion, and rejoicing in having done great things, he first preferred himself to all in thought, and afterwards, still vain-glorious, said, \"Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom, and in the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?\" Which utterance of his, as we see, fell openly under the vengeance of the wrath which his hidden elation kindled. For the strict judge first sees invisibly what he afterwards reproves by publicly smiting it. Hence him He turned even into an irrational animal, separated him from human society, changed his mind and joined him to the beasts of the field, that in obviously strict and just judgment he who had esteemed himself great beyond men should lose even his being as a man.<br/><i>— The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 1, Chapter 4</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Verses 24, 25. \"'This is the interpretation of the sentence of the Most High which has come upon my lord the king. They shall cast thee forth from among men and thy habitation shall be with cattle and wild beasts...'\" Daniel moderates the severity of the sentence by complimentary language, so that (variant: and) after he has first set forth the harsher aspects, he may moderate the king's alarm by assurances of the kindlier treatment to follow. He draws the final inference:<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER FOUR</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: At this point it is possible to learn the value of the apostolic teaching, \"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities\"; blessed Daniel, note, calls the impious king \"lord\" and, influenced by the norm of authority, he adopts the appropriate titles, and he gives a glimpse of the truth of the dream, distressing though it is.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 4:23-24</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"09a0dca068255b0f617ef675d2702c587f514bc83dbe5b205e14d3ea2dbb10de","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3731,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0d95ed5d45c267f2fc54d38ac55ecd5f0a5a2d52bffd4c5f0fcb3bbe86c4fb7a","translator":null,"work":null}