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The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed. The smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
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Verse 94. Smell, such as is felt when people, ( Bible.) or their garments, come too near the fire. Pagans have sometimes walked through fire; but they first anointed their feet with certain preservatives, as Servius (in Æn. xi.) remarks from Varro. Calmet.—Here the fire burnt only the bands, (verse 23, 92. Bible.) God making his creatures afford comfort to his servants, as was the case when the Goths attempted to burn S. Benedict. Saint Gregory Dial. iii. 18. Worthington.
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