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Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…Commentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially…
Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially for the use of the family of the right honourable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glass, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by considering the text, meditating the sense thereof, and by prayerCommentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially for the vse of the family of the ryght honorable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glasse, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by consideryng the text, meditatyng the sense therof, and by prayer
London: printed by John Daye, 1570London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1570
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21 So these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their cloaks, with their other garments, and cast into the midest of the hot fiery furnace. 22 And the kings commandment was strait, that the furnace should be exceeding hot, and so the flame of the fire slew those men that brought forth Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound in the midest of the hot fiery furnace.
21 So these men were bounde in their coates, their hosen, and their clokes, with their other garmentes, and cast into the midest of the hote firy fornace. 22 And the kinges cōmaundement was straite, that the fornace should be exceeding hote, and so the flame of the fyre slew those men that brought forth Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell downe bounde in the midest of the hote fiery fornace.
Here Daniel declareth the miracle whereby God delivered his servants. Whereof there be two parts: One, that those three men walked safe in the midst of the fire: an other that the flame burnt up the kings Guard that cast them into the fire. And the prophet doth diligently rehearse the circumstances, to set forth the power of God, as that the king gave a strait charge, and with so great anger caused the furnace to be heated, and that his strong men were consumed with the utmost flame, where as they three walked in the coals in the fire and the flame. And this is as much as if the prophet had said, that the fire had no force at all upon the holy servants of God, and that the smoke had ⟨p. 29⟩