Bel and the Dragon
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Of that scepticism which followed the refinements of rabbinism there is no trace, either here, or in Susanna, or in Bel and the Dragon.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford
In Θ, Bel and the Dragon is apparently assumed to be by the same writer as the rest of the Book of Daniel.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford
These two, like Bel and the Dragon, are always worshipped in the same chapter; they hunt in couples, what one doth at the head, the other scores up at the heels.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Jerome, notwithstanding, in his Preface names these additions in the order, Susanna, The Three, Bel and the Dragon; yet in the immediately following "capitula Danihelis," it stands as in the text after chap. xii.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford
It may be said that resistance to idolatry, securing divine deliverance, is, as in Bel and the Dragon, the "motif" of the piece.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford
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