OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 3:92

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He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

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Verse 92. The son, or rather ( Bible.) “a son;” νιω. Lowth’s Gram.—He supposed this was some angel or petty god, like Hercules. Carthus.—It was the same angel who descended ( Worthington.) with them verse 49. Some have taken him for Jesus Christ. But Saint Augustine observes, that most of these apparitions were made by angels, (Trin. iii. 11.) who are often styled “sons of God.” Job 1:6. Tirinus. Calmet.

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