John Trapp on Daniel 6:1

CHAP. VI.

Ver. 1. IT pleaſed Darius] Chald. Pulobrum fuit coram Dario. Order, he knew, muſt be obſerved, or the kingdom could not continue. Himſelf alſo was ancient and needed Aſſiſtants. It was honour and work enough for him illos judicare qu[illegible: 1 letter]s conſtituit judices aliorum (as Petr. Bleſenſis ſaith that our Henry the ſecond did) to judge thoſe whom he had made Judges of others. The great Turk doth ſo to this day, whence few of his Grandees (his Viſiers eſpecially or chief Officers) dye in their beds.

An hundred and twenty Princes] For his 120 Provinces, which afterward came to be 127, Eſth. 1.1. Monarchs will ever be adding.