No hurt — See how the God of nature can when he pleases control the powers of nature! The Son of God — Probably he had heard David speak of him. Jesus Christ, the Angel of the covenant, did sometimes appear before his incarnation. Those who suffer for Christ, have his gracious presence with them in their sufferings, even in the fiery furnace, even in the valley of the shadow of death, and therefore need fear no evil.
Verse 25. _IS LIKE THE SON OF GOD._] A most improper translation. What notion could this idolatrous king have of the _Lord Jesus_ _Christ_? for so the place is understood by thousands. בר אלהין _bar_...
HE ANSWERED AND SAID, LO, I SEE FOUR MEN LOOSE - From the fact that he saw these men now loose, and that this filled him with so much surprise, it may be presumed that they had been bound with somethi...
CHAPTER 3 THE IMAGE OF GOLD _ 1. The image of gold (Daniel 3:1)_ 2. The faithful three (Daniel 3:8) 3. The miraculous deliverance (Daniel 3:19) 4. The worshipping king ...
DANIEL 3. THE GOLDEN IMAGE AND THE FIERY FURNACE. Nebuchadnezzar made a colossal image of gold and commanded the people to worship it. The three friends of Daniel refused to comply with the order. The...
LO,. SEE FOUR MEN LOOSE, WALKING IN THE MIDST OF THE FIRE. No wonder the king was astonished. It was wonderful that the men were not consumed at once, but freed from their fetters, they walked unhurt...
THE SON OF GOD. a son of God (no Art.): i.e.. superhuman being, or an angel. Compare Daniel 3:28, and see App-23. Nebuchadnezzar could know nothing of N.T. revelation....
_loose_ the fire had burnt away the fetters, but left the bodies of the three youths untouched. _form_ ASPECT, APPEARANCE, as Daniel 2:31. is _like the Son of God is like_ A SON _of_(the) GODS, i.e....
The three youths delivered from the flames....
IS LIKE THE SON OF GOD— Rather _like a Son of God,_ or _of the gods:_ in agreement with the Hebrew, LXX, and Syriac; that is to say, "Like a divine and glorious person, sent from the powers above to r...
d. PERFECT DELIVERANCE TEXT: Daniel 3:19-25 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and command...
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. LO, I SEE FOUR MEN - "four," whereas but...
3:25 God. (d-34) Or 'of the gods.' _ Elah_ , Aramaic, in the plural, corresponding to the Hebrew _ Elohim_ . see ch. 2.11....
THE SON OF GOD] RV 'a son of the gods,' a heavenly being, called an angel in v.,28. Nebuchadnezzar could not have used the expression in the definite Christian sense suggested by AV. 29. Made a dungh...
THE GOLDEN IMAGE AND THE FIERY FURNACE Nebuchadnezzar sets up a colossal golden image, and summons to its dedication all the officials of his empire, who are commanded to fall down and worship the ima...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 3 V1 King Nebuchadnezzar set up a gold image. It was 30 metres high and 3 metres wide. He set it up on the plain called Dura, in the d...
THE SON OF GOD. — These words, let us remember, are uttered by a heathen king, who calls this same Person, in Daniel 3:28, “an angel” of the God whom the three children worshipped. Probably Nebuchadne...
עָנֵ֣ה וְ אָמַ֗ר הָֽא ־אֲנָ֨ה חָזֵ֜ה גֻּבְרִ֣
THE IDOL OF GOLD, AND THE FAITHFUL THREE REGARDED as an instance of the use of historic fiction to inculcate the noblest truths, the third chapter of Daniel is not only superb in its imaginative gran...
LOYALTY REWARDED Daniel 3:19-30 It is only when we reach the fire that we become aware of the presence of the divine Companion, walking beside us as if treading the dew-besprinkled glades of Paradise...
The next story is of the pride of Nebuchadnezzar in setting up in the plain of Dura a great golden image. This may have been connected with the interpretation of the dream Daniel had given. The head o...
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the (k) Son of God. (k) For the angels were called the sons...
Probably the impious wretch was struck with astonishment at the distinguishing providence of God, that while God's servants received no hurt, the very heat of the furnace struck dead those who had lai...
_A FURNACE AND MEN IN IT_ ‘These three men … I see four men.’ Daniel 3:23; Daniel 3:25 (_A sermon to children_) This very interesting subject is very easily divided. I. THE THREE IN THE FURNACE.—...
_COMMUNION IN THE FURNACE_ ‘And the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.’ Daniel 3:25 I. WHAT AN UNEXPECTED GREETING MUST THIS HAVE BEEN TO THE THREE CHILDREN!—What a joyful surprise! What a...
After this general picture, we have, historically, the characteristic features of these empires, marking the condition into which they fall, through their departure from God-primarily and principally...
HE ANSWERED AND SAID, LO, I SEE FOUR MEN LOOSE,.... Not bound as the three were, when cast in; but quite at liberty in their hands and feet, and separate from one another. As this fiery furnace may be...
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Ver. 25. _Walking in the midst of the fire....
_Then Nebuchadnezzar was astonied, and rose up in haste _ Some have thought there is something wanting between this and the preceding verse, expressive of the reason of Nebuchadnezzar's astonishment....
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, no longer bound as they had been cast in, WALKING IN THE MIDST OF THE FIRE, not leaving it, but waiting for God's time to leave them out, AND THEY HAVE...
The Miraculous Preservation of God's Servants...
THEY HAVE NO HURT: Cald. there is no hurt in them...
19-27 Let Nebuchadnezzar heat his furnace as hot as he can, a few minutes will finish the torment of those cast into it; but hell-fire tortures, and yet does not kill. Those who worshipped the beast...
I SEE; the fire gave light to see them, though it had no power of heat to burn them. LIKE THE SON OF GOD; a Divine, most beautiful, and glorious countenance; either of a mere angel, or rather of Jesus...
Daniel 3:25 Look H1888 answered H6032 (H8750) H560 (H8750) I H576 see H2370 (H8751) four...
‘Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and he rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counsellors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the heart of the fire?” They answered and said to the...
Daniel 3:25 This narrative may be assumed to set forth in lively type or emblem the security of God's saints in the hour of their greatest peril, together with the reason of that security. Fire repres...
Daniel 3:24 There are two aspects of life: one, the common, the ordinary, the prosaic aspect; and the other, the Divine, the glorified, the Christian aspect; and that which alone can give you this se...
Daniel 3 I. We have here a specimen of religious intolerance. II. We see here how religious intolerance is to be met. These three young men simply refused to do what Nebuchadnezzar commanded, or, in...
CONTENTS: Pride of Nebuchadnezzar and his punishment. The image of gold. The three Jews refuse to worship the image. Fiery furnace proven harmless. The king convinced. CHARACTERS: God, Nebuchadnezzar...
Daniel 3:1. _An image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits._ As the breadth of this image was only six cubits, which is four short of the human proportion, it is conjectured that the pedestal w...
_Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire._ CONSOLATION IN THE FURNACE The narrative of the glorious boldness and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champi...
_That they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated._ THE FIERY FURNACE I. THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO BE MADE. This Oriental despot was then in the zenith of his g...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar commands all peoples under his rule to worship a golden image. Daniel’s friends refuse, out of loyalty to their God. When God delivers them from the fiery furn...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:24 Daniel’s friends were joined in the fire by a FOURTH individual, who had the appearance of a divine being LIKE A SON OF THE GODS. This was either a physical appearance of Ch...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XIII.—THE FIERY FURNACE (Chap. Daniel 3:8) God has never left Himself without a witness. An Enoch and a Noah found on the eve of the Flood; an Abraham in Chaldea, and a Lot in Sodo...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 3:1 THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE. DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose heigh
Now in chapter 3 we find Nebuchadnezzar defying the revelation of God. Remember in his dream he saw the image with the head of gold, "thou art the head of gold," but it had a chest of silver for the B...
1 Peter 3:13; Acts 28:5; Daniel 3:18; Daniel 3:28; Isaiah 43:2;...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S IMAGE OF GOLD Daniel 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Daniel in Babylon. (1) How Daniel came to be in Babylon. When Jerusalem was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel and the three Heb...