John Trapp on Daniel 6:7

Ver. 7. All the Preſidents of the Kingdom] Not all neither: for Daniel would ſooner have dyed a thouſand deaths, then have voted ſuch a groſſe impiety. But he was one of the moſt that knew leaſt of the Council, and it was he againſt whom hac endebatur faba, this plot was laid; though it proved at laſt to be againſt themſelves.

The Governours and the Princes, the Counſellors and the Captains] A rabble of rebels conſpiring againſt heaven. Non numeranda ſunt ſuffragia, ſed expendenda.

To eſtabliſh a royal ſtatute] But a very irreligious and injurious one: the like whereunto was that prohibition in France of Henry the third, Polan. in locum. Heyl. Geog. that it ſhould not be lawful for houſholders to pray with their families: and that of the Jeſuites at Dola forbidding the common people to ſay any thing at all of God, either in good ſort or in bad.

That whoſoever ſhall ask a petition of any god or man] What not of their own gods? nor yet of Cyrus, who was compartner with Darius in the Kingdom? But like enough theſe complotters might think hereby the rather to ingratiate with the old dotard Darius who feared the virtue and valour of his Nephew and colleague Cyrus; and would ſay with tears, as Xenophon reporteth, that Cyrus was more glorious then he, and had more applauſe of the people.