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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 10. "Now when Daniel learned of it, that is, of the law which had been enacted, he entered his house, and with the windows in his upper room opened up in the direction of Jerusalem, he continued to bow his knees three times a day and worshipped, and made confession before his God just as he was previously accustomed to do." We must quickly draw from our memory and bring together from all of Holy Scripture all the passages where we have read of domata, which mean in Latin either "walled enclosures" (menia) or "beds" or …
Hippolytus of Rome
And so Daniel, when he knew what was written, having reflected on the plot which came upon him, did not fear it nor was terrified, but was readily holding himself to be handed over as food for beasts rather than to obey the prescription of the king. And he had a pattern of what happened to the three youths, when they did not wish to bow to the king's image, and they were preserved from the furnace of fire. …
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