[1] If, instead of showing them his treasures, he had related
to these idolatrous Chaldeans, who were worshippers of the
sun, the account of his marvellous cure, and especially the
miracle by which the shadow was made to go ten degrees
backward on the dial, he might have been the means of
bringing them to the knowledge of the true God who made the
heavens, and of convincing them that He was master even of
that glorious luminary, which they ignorantly adored
instead of its Creator.--_Bather._