Daniel 2:8 (WEB)
The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.
Fathers and councils · 1
“…for fear it should be set down to the account of custom; (lust) on which he would sit in judgment though absent, for fear the culprit should “gain the time;” (lust) which he had condemned after calling to his aid even “the Lord’s power,” for fear the sentence should seem human.” — editor's note: Comp. Dan. ii. 8.
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