8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 6-10)Daniel’s adversaries could have no advantage against him from any law now in being; they therefore contrive a new law, by which they hope to ensnare him, and in a matter in which they knew they should be sure of him; and such was his fidelity to his God that they gained their point. Here is, I. Darius’s impious law. I call it Darius’s , because he gave the royal assent to it, and otherwise it woul...
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