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Daniel 3:30

Western Saints

Jerome

Verse 30. "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to honor in the province of Babylon." Those commentators who say that the three youths were previously not judges set over the provinces but mere overseers of individual government agencies in Babylon, would have it that they were now appointed as judges over the provinces.

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THREE ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

"Then the king promoted," etc. For as they honoured God by giving themselves up to death, so, too, they were themselves honoured not only by God, but also by the king. And they taught strange and foreign nations also to worship God.

Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments - Scholia on Daniel ↗