The Integrity of the Miracle
This testimony was received. For since the king's dream was interpreted, and he was worshiped by this king as a god, and he was called Belteshazzar by the name of the god among the Persians (Dan 5:13), so that it might not be thought—because of the name of Belteshazzar being attached to him—that the fire's energy had ceased, God manages that Daniel not be brought into the middle, so that the wonder might be pure in its piety. And these things indeed are to this much; but may it be for us, through the prayers and intercessions of those who bore witness, to take up the same zeal, to be worthy of the same praises, and to obtain the same kingdom, by the grace and philanthropy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom the glory and the power belong unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Greek
μαρτύριον τοῦτο παραληφθῆναι. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ τὸ ὄναρ τοῦ βασιλέως ἡρμήνευσε, καὶ ὡς θεὸς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως προσεκυνήθη, καὶ ἐκλήθη Βαλτασὰρ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ παρὰ Πέρσαις, ἵνα μὴ νομισθῇ διὰ τὸ ἐνεγκάμενον αὐτῷ ὄνομα τοῦ Βαλτασὰρ πεπαῦσθαι τοῦ πυρὸς τὴν ἐνέργειαν, οἰκονομεῖ Θεὸς μὴ προαχθῆναι τὸν ∆ανιὴλ εἰς μέσον, ἵνα ἀκέραιον ᾖ τῆς εὐσεβείας τὸ θαῦμα. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν εἰς τοσοῦτον· εἴη δ' ἡμᾶς, εὐχαῖς καὶ πρεσβείαις τῶν μαρτυρησάντων, τὸν αὐτὸν ζῆλον ἀναλαβόντας, τῶν αὐτῶν ἐπαίνων ἀξιωθῆναι, καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς βασιλείας τυχεῖν, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.
About this text
The three young men in the furnace: defying a king, unharmed by fire, singing in the flames.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 65 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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