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Daniel and the Lions

A pit sealed with a stone, a man standing among hungry lions, a light in the dark that stops their mouths, and at dawn the stone rolled back. Scroll to watch it.

And the king exceedingly rejoiced, and commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den of lions; and the lions had done him no hurt, because he trusted and had believed in his God.

Daniel 6:23, as St Cyprian of Carthage gives it

The Babylonians gloried over Daniel and cast him into the den of lions, and Daniel came up victorious, and they were cast instead of him into the den.

Aphrahat, Select Demonstrations