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John Gill's Exposition on Daniel 3:27
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, etc.] Either by the order of the king, or of their own accord, to see the miracle that was wrought: saw these men; saw them walking in the furnace, saw them come out of it at the king’s call, and saw them when they were out, and examined them thoroughly; so that they had ocular demonstration, full proof and conviction, of the truth of what was done: upon whose bodies the fire had no power; to blister, scorch, burn, and consume them, as it has usually over the bodies of men, or any creature: nor was an hair of their head singed; which is easily done with the weakest flame; and this must be understood of the hair of their eyebrows and beards also; (see <422118>Luke 21:18): neither were their coats changed; neither the substance, nor form, nor colour of them, but were just as they were when cast into the furnace; the same holds good of all their other garments, their interior ones, with their turbants, shoes, and stockings: nor the smell of the fire had passed on them; as will upon persons that stay at any time in a place where there is much fire and smoke; and especially where much combustible things are burnt, as pitch, sulphur, and the like, as in furnaces; and very probably in this, which had been so vehemently heated; and yet there was no smell of it on their garments; all which serve to make the miracle the more wonderful.
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