Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 6:5

5 Then said these men , We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God .

These proud envious Courtiers.

Pliny said of old, it is the custom of Courtiers to study how to make innocent men faulty, and Scripture, and experience tells us that the most religious are accounted most dangerous to the Government, and that debauchery is loyalty: and that Flatterers ought to be the best Favorites, Ezra 4.12, 13, 14. Nehem. 6.5, 6, 7. Esther 3.8. Dan. 3.12. and this text, are plain proofs of it; besides the experience of every age to this day, This was for the honour of Daniels integrity, and for a brand of infamy upon his malicious enemies.