John Trapp on Daniel 6:4

Ver. 4. Then the Preſidents and Princes ſought] Chald. Were ſeeking, they made it their buſineſſe ſo to do. Envious men are alwayes in excubiis, ſet in their watch, to obſerve where they may faſten their fangs, and do moſt miſchief. See Prov. 27.4. with the Note.

But they could find none occaſion] His innocency thratled their envy, and made them, ſith they could not come at his heart, to feed upon their own.

Nor fault] Neque in facto, nec in ſigno: and yet they waited for his halting, as Pſal. 38.16, 17. and watched as eagerly for it, as a dog doth for a bone. A blameleſſe behaviour diſappointeth malice, and maketh it drink up the moſt part of its own venom.

Foraſmuch as he was faithful] Homo quadratus, a ſquare-dealing man, and ſuch as againſt whom lay no juſt exception. Homo virtuti ſimillimus, as Paterculus ſaith of Cato Major, A man as like Virtue her ſelf as could be poſſible.