Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 8:2

2 And I saw in a vision (and it came to pass when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam ) and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai .

In his mind and thoughts, not bodily, and was by the River Vlai; some think he was locally there, being sent thither in Embassy by Cyrus; but Daniel was now at Babylon, when it was besieged and taken, Dan. 5. he was only there in Spirit, as the Prophet Ezekiel saith he was in Ierusalem, Ezek. 8.1. Now Daniel had this Vision at Susan, because their deliverance was to come by Cyrus the Persian, or Elamite, for Elam is Persia. This City was called Sushan, i. e. a Lilly, for the pleasantness of it; such names they give also their Cities in China.

A River whose waters were so wholesome, that they were carried far, and the king drank of no other.

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