Chapter 31

¹ Therefore, so that in all things the dignity of the holy Scriptures may be preserved and the pure mouth of the blessed prophets may be shown to be pure, let us compare word with word and set phrase beside phrase.

² For when the elders at that time wished to gratify their own lust through wicked words and said shamelessly, “We saw them lying together,” the blessed Daniel set in order what had been spoken by these men so foully and so wickedly, asking them, “Under what tree did you see them keeping company with each other?” For the notion of “keeping company” is one thing, and that of intercourse another.