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Daniel 5:19Dan.5.19

And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

KJV

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

et à cause de la grandeur qu'il lui avait donnée, tous les peuples, les nations, les hommes de toutes langues étaient dans la crainte et tremblaient devant lui. Le roi faisait mourir ceux qu'il voulait, et il laissait la vie à ceux qu'il voulait; il élevait ceux qu'il voulait, et il abaissait ceux qu'il voulait.

KJV

And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Patristic reading

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  • Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)

    Epistula I ad Corinthios

    ς Dan. 6, 16 εὐκλεῶς ἤνεγκαν. τί γὰρ εἴπωμεν, ἀδελφοί; Δανιὴλ ὑπὸ τῶν φοβουμένων τὸν θεὸν ἐβλήθη εἰς Dan. 5, 19 ff λάκκον λεόντων; ἢ Ἀνανίας καὶ Ἀζαρίας καὶ Μισαὴλ ὑπὸ τῶν θρησκευόντων τὴν μεγαλοπρεπῆ καὶ ἔνδοξον θρησκείαν τοῦ ὑψίστου κατείρχθησαν εἰς κάμινον πυρός; μηθαμῶς τοῦτο…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    ebat interficiebat, et quos volebat percutiebat; quos volebat exaltabat, et quos volebat humiliabat (Dan. V, 19) ? Si in hujusmodi honoribus et percussionibus, [Col. 0648D] exaltatione et humiliatione non est Dei providentia nec praeceptum, sed eorum voluntas, qui percutiunt quo…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)

    cessat. Unde et apud Danielem Nabuchodonosor percutere, humiliare et occidere dicitur quos volebat (Dan. V, 19) , cor cujus tamen non nisi in manu Dei erat. Tondetur, dum ea, quae inter tentationes succreverat superfluitate, promptae ferro discretionis et geminae forcipe charitat…

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