Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 4:16

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 267, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3715 (In-Text, Margin)

... the heat of youthful passion to tempt young men and maidens and “sets on fire the wheel of our birth.” He thus fulfils the words of Hosea, “they are all adulterers, their heart is like an oven;” an oven which only God’s mercy and severe fasting can extinguish. These are “the fiery darts” with which the devil wounds men and sets them on fire, and it was these which the king of Babylon used against the three children. But when he made his fire forty-nine cubits high he did but turn to his own ruin[Daniel 4:16] the seven weeks which the Lord had appointed for a time of salvation. 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 ...