The Book of Daniel and the Persecuted

from The Telegraph:
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These are the "Hebrew children" thrown into the burning fiery furnace. Their hats are mentioned in the Bible, and here resemble Daniel's on the pyx, but curlier, like the Phrygian cap of liberty embraced by the French Revolutionaries.

The burning fiery furnace and the lions' den appealed to early Christians because their images of faith met the terrible persecutions that periodically swept the Roman Empire.
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