Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel 2.30.1–4
About this date: A broad attributed range; literary setting is not historical verification.
Hippolytus addresses the three youths in the furnace and says ‘remember me, I entreat you,’ asking for the same lot of martyrdom. This is petitionary address within biblical commentary. Whether it is devotional invocation or rhetorical apostrophe remains debated.
Reception
patristic
Sources and further reading
- Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel
Passage checked in text and page image; date is the translator’s estimate.