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Daniel 1:19

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Hippolytus of Rome

"For God gave them understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom and Daniel understood all visions and dreams. And after the end of the days the chief eunuch brought them before the king and the king spoke with them and none were found from all of them like Daniel and Hanniah and Mishael and Azariah." [Daniel 1:17-19] And so the Word brought them forth in all wisdom, displaying them as faithful witnesses in Babylon, so that through them the worship of the Babylonians might be disgraced and Nebuchadnezzar might be defeated by …

Commentary on Daniel 1.12.3-5 ↗