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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 1. "Nebuchadnezzar the king made a golden statue seventy cubits in height and six cubits in breadth." How soon he forgot the truth, when he had just been worshipping a servant of God as if he had been God Himself, but now commanded a statue to be made for himself in order that he personally might be worshipped in the statue! …
Hippolytus of Rome
And so, after sufficient time had passed and the eighteenth year had come, the king, having remembered his dream, made a golden image, which was sixty cubits high and its breadth was six cubits. For when the blessed Daniel, when he interpreted the same dream, answered the saying, "You are the head of the golden image," [Daniel 2:38] in this word king Nebuchadnezzar, having been puffed up and having been lifted up in heart, made the image as an anti-type of the dream, so that he might be worshiped as God by all. …
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