Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 3:29

29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort.

Observe here, that though he doth not resolve to worship the true God, nor command others to do it, yet he would not allow the God of the Jewes to be evil spoken of, this was all that he came up to. He was resolved to hold fast to the Religion Established, his own Idols, nay the great golden Idol, which had been slur[illegible: 1 letter]'d and slighted by these three Worthies, he would not take down and relinquish; this was the best quarter the true God could get among them, not to be spoken amiss of under great penalty; though he confessed, no god else could deliver after that strange sort. Bel could not preserve his men out of the Furnace, God preserves his servants in the Furnace. All was one for that, Bel should be his God still.

Marginal references: Chald. a de [illegible: 1 letter]is made by; Chald. error.; [illegible: 2 letters]ap. 2.5.; [illegible: 1 letter]hald. made [illegible: 1 word].