Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
They kept on all their garments, cloaks, turbans, breeches, shoes, inner tunics, whether through haste or design, to magnify their torment; but the Lord meant it to make the miracle more visible to all who witnessed it.
AI summary
The enumeration names three layers of Babylonian dress: the סרבּלין are under-garments worn next the body like our shirts; the פּטישׁא are turbans for the head; the כּרבּלא are mantles thrown over all; with לבוּשׁ marking whatever other pieces remained beneath and between.
AI summary
Rage blinds a man to reason; Nebuchadnezzar had known the true God, yet pride made him furious at these young men's refusal, and fury changed his very face into the likeness of a wild beast. His anger did not cool his judgment, it burned away all that remained of his wisdom.
AI summary
Commenting on Daniel 3:19-27