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Daniel 3:25 (WEB)
Then Azarias stood, and prayed like this. Opening his mouth in the midst of the fire he said,

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Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies V.5Book V
“Now this is the Son of God, as the Scripture represents Nebuchadnezzar the king as having said, “Did not we cast three men bound into the furnace? and, lo, I do see four walking in the midst of the fire, and the fourth is like the Son of God.”” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 19–25.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians IV.7Discourse IV
“…which I shall speak afterwards; and in the Proverbs, ‘Before the hills He begat me;’ and in Daniel, ‘And the form of the Fourth is like the Son of God;’ and many others.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 25, LXX.; Dan. iii. 25.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14Book I
“The heathen king saw in the fire, together with the three Hebrew children, the form of a fourth, like as of an angel, and because he thought that this angel excelled all angels, he judged Him to be the Son of God, Whom he had not read of, but in Whom he believed.” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 25.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 79
“Who ever entered the furnace of the King of Babylon without being burned?” — editor's note: Cf. Dan. iii. 25.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 130
“And as then a fourth bearing a form like the son of God slackened the terrible heat and cooled the flames of the blazing fiery furnace, until, menacing as they looked, they became quite harmless, so is it now with the virgin soul.” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 25.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.10Book IV
“It was He who was seen by the king of Babylon in the furnace with His martyrs: “the fourth, who was like the Son of man.”” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 25.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.21Book IV
“He saved the lives of the three brethren, who had agreed to lose them for God’s sake; but He destroyed those of the Chaldæans, when they had preferred to save them by the means of their idolatry.” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 25, 26.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 91
“And who else save the three men Ananias, Azariah, and Mishael, ever walked about unharmed in flames that blazed and did not burn?” — editor's note: Dan. iii. 23–27.
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