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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Verses 17 and 18 may be understood and translated in two radically different ways. The first takes the If it be so as meaning “If we are thrown into the fire” or “If the king’s sentence is carried out” and pictures the three young men as being perfectly confident that God will be able to deliver them. This understanding is clearly brought out in the NIV rendering of these verses as well as in FRCL. The second possibility, reflected in TEV, NAB, NRSV, and NJB, indicates some doubt on the part of the
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