John Trapp on Daniel 6:8
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Daniel6:8
Ver. 8. Now O King eſtabliſh the decree] Confirm it, that it may receive the force of Law.
According to the Law of the Medes and Perſians that altereth not] This was too much to be given to any law made by man, ſo mutable a creature. I have read of a people whoſe laws laſted in force but for three dayes at utmoſt: This was a fault in the other extream. The Perſians laws were therefore irrepealable, becauſe they worſhipped Truth for a goddeſſe, to whom Inconſtancy and Change muſt needs be oppoſite and odious. But this was no good reaſon neither; unleſs the Lawmakers ſhall be ſuppoſed ſuch as cannot erre, nor will any thing unjuſt: which can be truely attributed to none but God only.
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