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Daniel 3:2

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

The enemy prepares the theatre, and he himself collects together the spectators, and prepares the lists; a theatre too, not of chance persons, or of some private individuals, but of all those who were honourable and in authority, to the end that their testimony may be worthy of credit with the multitude. They had come summoned for one thing; but they all departed having beheld another thing. …

Homilies Concerning The Statues 4:8 ↗

Western Saints

Jerome

Verse 2. "Nebuchadnezzar sent therefore to the satraps, magistrates and judges, the dukes and potentates, and the prefects and all the princes of the various districts that they should gather themselves together." It is the higher ranks which stand in the greater peril, and those who occupy the loftier position are the more sudden in their fall. …

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THREE ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

And having sent out a command he summoned together the governors, captains and rulers and all of those in authority to come to the consecration of the image, which Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.

Commentary on Daniel 2.15.4 ↗