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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 21. "And straightway those men, bound up in their trousers and turbans and footgear and garments, were cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire..." Instead of sarbal, "trousers" interpreted by Symmachus as anaxy-rides ("trousers"), Aquila and Theodotion read simply saraballa rather than the corrupt reading sarabara. …
Hippolytus of Rome
And so, "Then the boys, after being bound with their garments and cloaks, were cast into the burning furnace of fire according to the proclamation of the king." [Daniel 3:21] Tell me, Nebuchadnezzar, on what account do you order these boys to be bound and cast into the fire? Lest they flee? Or being released they quench the fire with their feet? But you are not the one who does these things, but another in you, who works these things. …
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