Daniel 13
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Daniel 13:3
It is well to make use of this testimony in order to exhort parents to educate with the divine law and testimony of God not only their sons but also their daughters. — STROMATEIS 10 (VIA ON DANIEL 13:3)
Daniel 13:5
A Hebrew informed us that they were Achiah and Zedekiah, those whom "the king of Babylon roasted in the fire because their conduct in Israel was an outrage, having committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors." — STROMATEIS 10 (VIA ON DANIEL 13:5a)
Daniel 13:7
"In the morning" Susanna went to take a walk. It is not at all out of place (in order to pacify those who find examples in the sacred writing for everything that we do) to take a walk at a time such as this, for example, since back then one did well to take a walk in order to keep his own body healthy. — STROMATEIS 10 (VIA ON DANIEL 13:8b-9)
Daniel 13:8-9
The Greek word pathos is better rendered for us with the term "disturbance" rather than with the term "passion." Therefore this disturbed and covetous desire stimulated, or rather it churned violently, in the heart of the elders. But because their souls were like plowed soil and they could only think about getting what they desired, their own feelings became perverted, and, once perverted, their eyes were turned toward earth so that they did not see the celestial truths, and they forgot about sound judgment, they forgot about God, about honesty, about the nature oriented toward the good inborn in every person. — STROMATEIS 10 (via ON DANIEL 13:8b-9)
Daniel 13:22
He calls sin death. In the same way, therefore, that for the one who commits adultery, adultery is death, so every sin that leads to death must be called death. And we are convinced that we die every time we sin mortally, whereas we rise again and recover life every time we do works worthy of life. — STROMATEIS 10 (VIA ON DANIEL 13:22)
Daniel 13:56
Let us pay attention, just as Joshua says, so that we can prevail over the Canaanites, because if they prevail over us and hold us captive, they may turn us from Israelites to Canaanites, just as it happened to him who was won over by the enticements of the flesh, to which the prophet said, "Race of Canaan and not of Judah, beauty has seduced you." Let it not happen to us, therefore, that we hear, "race of Canaan," because "cursed is the son of Canaan; he will be a servant to his brothers." May the Lord instead grant that we may be children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, heirs according to the promise and brought forth from stones so that we may be children of Abraham, in Christ Jesus our Lord. — HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 22:6