But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the image which you have set up.
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Jerome
AD 420
a phrasing which admirably avoids the idea, "If He is not able," which would be inconsistent with what they had just asserted, "He is able to deliver us" ---- but rather they say, "If He does not will to do so." Thereby they indicate that it will not be a matter of God's inability but rather of His sovereign will if they do perish.
