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Chapter VII.
Those, therefore, who
were possessed of power along with him, stimulated by envy, because a
foreigner belonging to a captive nation had been placed on a footing of
equality with them, constrain the king, who had been corrupted by
flattery, to enact that divine honors should be paid to him for the
next thirty days, and that it should not be lawful for any one to pray
to a god except the king. Darius was easily persuaded to that, through
the folly of all kings who claim for themselves divine honors. In these
circumstances, Daniel being not unacquainted with what had happened,
and not being ignorant that prayer ought to be addressed to God, and
not to man, is accused of not having obeyed the king’s
commandment. And much against the will of Darius, to whom he had always
been dear and acceptable, the rulers prevailed that he should be let
down into a den.336
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“lacum”: twice used before in the sense of
pit. | But no harm came
to him when thus exposed to the wild beasts. And on the king
discovering this, he ordered his accusers to be given over to the
lions. They, however, did not pass through a similar experience, for
they were instantly devoured to satisfy the hunger of the savage
beasts. Daniel, who had been famous before, was now esteemed still more
famous; and the king, repealing his former edict, issued a new one to
the effect that, all errors and superstitions being abandoned, the God
of Daniel was to be worshiped. There exists also a record of visions of
Daniel, in which he revealed the order of events in coming ages,
embracing in them also the number of the years, within which he
announced that Christ would descend to earth (as has taken place), and
clearly set forth the future coming of Antichrist. If any one is eager
to inquire into these points, he will find them more fully treated of
in the book of Daniel: our design is simply to present a connected
statement of events. Darius is related to have reigned eighteen years;
after which date Astyages began to rule over the
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