John Trapp on Daniel 6:3

Ver. 3. Then this Daniel was preferred above the Preſidents] Chald. He became a conquerour over thoſe Exarehes: ſo that he might have been called as Charles the Great once was, Pater Orbis, the Worlds Father; or as Titus, the Worlds Darling; Orbis deliciae. Mirabiliae mundi. or as Othe the third, the Worlds wonder. He was indeed no leſſe: and that, Darius well found by him. Whether he took him with him into Media, as Hierom, out of Joſephus, relateth, I have not to ſay. If he did, it ſeemeth that after the death of Darius, he returned again to Babylon, and there ſerved King Cyrus, verſe 28.

Becauſe an excellent ſpirit was in him] Not only of Prophecy, but of prudence, juſtice, zeal, and other virtues, which, if a Governour want, he is as a Sun without light, a bird without wings, a Maſter of a ſhip without an helm, &c.

And the King thought to ſee him over the whole realm] Thus dignity waiteth upon deſert, and envy upon dignity, which made David love his hook the better after he had ſeen the Court; and Daniel was never fond of this great preferment whereby, for his own particular, he got nothing, niſi ut turbatior viveres, occupatior interiret, Feriunt ſummos fulmina montes. (as he ſaid) but vanity and vexation of ſpirit. High-ſeats are never but uneaſy: neither want there thoſe, that are lifting at them, and labouring to overturn them.