And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.
Fire destroyed those who cast them in, yet left the three men and their bonds intact. They fell bound into the furnace, lay there unbound and alive, the Hebrew text ends here. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic versions insert sixty-seven verses of their song, which are not in our Hebrew.
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The king's command was so sharp and urgent that the furnace was heated beyond all ordinary measure; the heat was such that the very servants who brought the three men to the mouth of it perished by the flames. This excess itself shows the miracle, that they survived at all in such a conflagration.
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Commenting on Daniel 3:22-23
They fell down, not cast down, those who brought them to the furnace perished by the flames themselves. The Septuagint, Syrian, Arabic, and Vulgate add the Prayer of Azarias and the Song of the Three, long sung in Church liturgies, but this is absent from the Chaldee text.
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