Daniel 3:25

Sermon Bible Commentary - Daniel 3:25

Daniel 3:25 This narrative may be assumed to set forth in lively type or emblem the security of God's saints in the hour of their greatest peril, together with the reason of that security. Fire represents persecution, trial, torment, affliction, of whatever sort, under its fiercest aspect; for fire consumes, devours, destroys, causes to disappear. A furnace, heated one-seven times more than usual, is the very image of destruction in its wildest shape. To have fallen down bound into such a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Daniel 3:1-30

Chapter 3Now in chapter 3 we find Nebuchadnezzar defying the revelation of God. Remember in his dream he saw the image with the head of gold, "thou art the head of gold," but it had a chest of silver for the Babylonian Empire was to be replaced by an inferior empire, the Medo-Persian Empire.But Nebuchadnezzar [in defiance of God and the revelation of God] made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits [or sixty cubits], and the breath thereof was six cubits ( Daniel 3:1 ):You're... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 3:1-30

Daniel 3:1 . An image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits. As the breadth of this image was only six cubits, which is four short of the human proportion, it is conjectured that the pedestal was twenty four cubits high: then the image itself was only thirty six. This nearly agrees with Diodorus Siculus, who says that Xerxes found an image of gold in the temple of Belus forty feet in length. But why did Nebuchadnezzar make this idol? Some think, to represent Bel-baal or Belus, which... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 3:19-28

Daniel 3:19-28That they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.The Fiery FurnaceI. THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO BE MADE. This Oriental despot was then in the zenith of his glory. He was the acknowledged master of the world. The pomp and pageantry, of that religious gathering has never been surpassed. In deep awe, “they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up” (v. 4). II. THE PERSONS WHO WERE CAST INTO THIS BURNING FIERY FURNACE AND WHY. These... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 3:25

Daniel 3:25Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire.Consolation in the FurnaceThe narrative of the glorious boldness and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness and steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and in the very jaws of death. Let young men especially, since these were young men, learn from their example both in matters of faith in religion, and matters... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 3:25

Dan 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Ver. 25. Walking in the midst of the fire. ] As in some pleasant place. Tua praesentia, Domine, Laurentio ipsam craticulam dulcem fecit, saith an ancient, i.e., Thy presence, Lord, sweetened the furnace to these three worthies, the gridiron to Laurence, those exquisite tortures to Theodorus in Julian’s time, a the Leonine... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Daniel 3:25

walking: Isaiah 43:2 they have no hurt: Chal, there is no hurt in them, Psalms 91:3-1 Samuel :, Mark 16:18, Acts 28:5, 1 Peter 3:13 the Son of God: Or, as bar elahin may be rendered, "a son of the gods," i.e., a divine person or angel. Daniel 3:18, Daniel 3:28, Job 1:6, Job 38:7, Psalms 34:7, Proverbs 30:4, Luke 1:35, John 19:7, John 19:8, Romans 1:4 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:33 - Fill four 2 Kings 1:10 - consumed Daniel 6:23 - because Matthew 2:13 - until Matthew 14:33 - Of Acts 12:7 - And... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Daniel 3:25

He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.No hurt — See how the God of nature can when he pleases control the powers of nature! The Son of God - Probably he had heard David speak of him. Jesus Christ, the Angel of the covenant, did sometimes appear before his incarnation. Those who suffer for Christ, have his gracious presence with them in their sufferings, even in the fiery... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 3:25

25. The construction of the Babylonian furnace in which there is monumental evidence that high criminals were sometimes executed is not well understood. There seems to have been a side door into which the king could look. Within the fires the astonished king sees not only three men walking unharmed, but another with them, “and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.” Was this fourth Gibil-Nusku, the god of fire and the “messenger” of Bel, who thus expresses the good will of the... read more

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