Daniel 4:37 (WEB)
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are right and his ways just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Fathers and councils · 4
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.31Book VII
“In a word, to distinguish those things from the objects of sense, which have no true reality, they say of God that “His works are truth;” thus making a distinction between the works of God and the works of God’s hands, which latter are of an inferior sort.” — editor's note: Dan. iv. 37.
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Jerome
“Nebuchadnezzar also, the king of Babylon, recovered his reason, even after he had been made like the beasts in body and in heart and had been compelled to live with the brutes in the wilderness.” — editor's note: Dan. iv. 33–37.
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Tertullian
“Thus that Babylonish king, after being exiled from human form in his seven years’ squalor and neglect, because he had offended the Lord; by the bodily immolation of patience not only recovered his kingdom, but—what is more to be desired by a man—made satisfaction to God.” — editor's note: Dan. iv. 33–37. Comp. de Pæn. c. 12. [I have removed an ambiguity by slightly touching the text here.]
Read the whole comment“…other God than the Creator, who both blessed all things (that He had made), as you find in Genesis, and is Himself “blessed by all things,” as Daniel tells us.” — editor's note: Dan. ii. 19, 20; iii. 28, 29; iv. 34, 37.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.31.