Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 3:6

6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace .

This was a punishment usual among the Chaldeans, to scorch, rost and burn offenders with fire, Ier. 29.22. see 2 Maccah. 7.3. And this the King of Moab imitated, 2 Kings 3.27. Amos 2.1. This shewes the hellish malice and cruelty of wicked men, especially against those that cross their pride and superstition, which was visible in the tortures Christians were put to in the 10 persecutions, and in the fires which Antichrist hath kindled in all his Reign, against the witnesses of Iesus; witness the book of Acts and Monuments; whom they cannot allure with their gawdery, they fright with their fires and massacres, as ye see the effects of both in the verse following