Wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the
decree.
] Moved to it by the number and importunity of his principal men;
and chiefly through affectation of deity, which this law gave
him; and that he might have an opportunity of ingratiating
himself into his new subjects by his munificence and liberality,
not being aware of the snare laid for his favourite, Daniel.
Daniel 6:9
