And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, [that] he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
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 than burn; as he came not frying into the world, as one said in Queen Mary's days, so he cannot go frying out of it. Epicurus in word confessed a God, but in deed denied him, because Anaxagoras was put to death for denying God at Athens, where Epicurus flourished. a
a Aug., De Civ. Dei, lib. xviii, cap. 41.