Thus out of the mouths of blasphemers and contemners of God can the Lord ordain praise: yet all this did not draw off this king from his idolatry, for he saith, the God of Shadrach, & c., not his God. Wonders will not work conversion till God work upon the heart, Deuteronomy 29:24. He blesseth God for four things.
1. For sending his angel to deliver his servants that trusted in him.
2. That they changed the king's commandment, i.e. frustrated it, and make it void, and convinced the king, and brought him to a better mind.
3. Therefore yielded their bodies to the fire, and to his fury, by passive obedience, rather than not obey God actively, by worshipping any false god,
4. But only the true, whom they chose to be their own God. Observe also here the power of faith, it quencheth the violence of fire, Hebrews 11:34; and the presence of God with his people, even in the fire, and in fiery trials, Isaiah 43:2 1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 4:12.