John Trapp on Daniel 1:20

Ver. 20. And in all matters of wiſdom] God will honour them that honour him: his gifts and graces he giveth to pure ſouls, and according to their ſtudy of purity, as to Daniel chiefly.

He found them ten times better] Maſters of knowledge, skilled uſque ad apices literarum, Mr. Fuller. and therefore highly favoured by the King, who was himſelf a great Philoſopher. Daniel was a Leviathan of learning both divine, and humane, as one ſaith of Archbiſhop Ʋſſier, Ʋnicum iſtius aetatis miraculum & Muſarum delicium, as Eraſmus ſaith of Alciat, the Miracle of his age, and the Muſes darling: one that better deſerved, for his learning, to be called Magnus then ever Albertus did. The perfection even of humane Arts is to be found in the Church: ſee my common place of A[illegible: 1 letter]ts.