Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Daniel 3:11
And whoso falleth not down and worshipeth, [that] he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth,…. The image; the above is the decree, this that follows the sanction of it:
that he should be cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace;
[See comments on Da 3:6].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Dan 3:11. Burning fiery furnace Another cruel method of punishment among the Chaldeans; see Jer 29:22. Burning alive is still inflicted, as Shaw tells us, on Jews and Christians, for capital crimes, at Algiers: see also Psa 21:9. Mr. Bruce, vol. 1: p. 516 has given us the following narrative: “Phineas, an Arabian prince from Medina, having beat St. Aretas, the governor of Najiran, began to persecute the Christians by a new species of cruelty, by ordering certain furnaces or pits full of fire to be prepared, into which he threw as many of the inhabitants of Najiran as refused to renounce Christianity. Mohammed, in his Koran, mentions this tyrant by the name of the Master of the fiery pits, without either condemning or praising the execution; only saying, the sufferers shall witness against him at the last day.”
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Dan 3:11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, [that] he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Ver. 11. And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast, &c. ] This with a graceless man is a swaying argument; he will rather turn than burn; as he came not frying into the world, as one said in Queen Mary’s days, so he cannot go frying out of it. Epicurus in word confessed a God, but in deed denied him, because Anaxagoras was put to death for denying God at Athens, where Epicurus flourished. a
a Aug., De Civ. Dei, lib. xviii, cap. 41.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Dan 3:6 – falleth Dan 6:7 – he shall Act 5:23 – The prison
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Dan 3:11. They reminded him also of the penalty he had attached to the decree. This was all in a pretense of concern for the dignity of the kings decree, but that was not the real point of tlieir interest as we shall see.