John Trapp on Daniel 3:11-12

Ver. 11. And whoſo falleth not down and worſhippeth, that he ſhould be caſt, &c.] This with a graceleſs man is a ſwaying argument: he will rather turn then burn: as he came not frying into the world (as one ſaid in Queen Maries dayes) ſo he cannot go frying out of it.Aug. de [illegible: 1 letter]iv. D. lib. 18. c. 41. Epicurus in word confeſſed a God (but indeed denyed him) becauſe Anaxagoras was put to death for denying God at Athens, where Epicurus flouriſhed.

Lib. 15.Ver. 12. There are certain Jews] Everywhere ſpoken againſt, as were afterwards Chriſtians, odio humani generis, ſaith Tacitus, hated for their religion.

Whom thou least ſet over the affaires] This was it that irked theſe ſpiteful accuſers. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outragious: but who is able to ſtand before envy? Prov. 27.4.

Shadrach, Meſhac, and Abednego] Whom though thou haſt highly preferred, and by calling them by the names of thy gods engaged them to thy religion, yet will they not yeild to it, but be ſingular and refractory.

Theſe men, O King, have not regarded thee] Chald. have ſet no regard upon thee. This was ever unicum crimen eorum qui crimine vacabant.