Daniel 3:12 (WEB)
There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Basil the Great
“I was taught too by the children at Babylon, that, when there is no one to support the cause of true religion, we ought alone and all unaided to do our duty.” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 12 seqq.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…run far away from the turning point, but let us philosophize within our proper bounds, and not be carried away into Egypt, nor be swept down into Assyria, nor sing the Lord’s song in a strange land, by which I mean before any kind of audience, strangers or kindred, hostile or friendly, kindly or the reverse, who…” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 12.
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Tertullian
“Wherefore the brotherhood of the three also, when the dedication of the royal image was the occasion of the citizens being pressed to offer worship, knew well what faith, which alone in them had not been taken captive, required,—namely, that they must resist idolatry to the death.” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 12.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 29.