And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cyrus; and also to the third, (Chap. x) and of course during the whole of the captivity. (Worthington)
He was maintained in power by the conqueror of Babylon, chap. vi. 18., and xiv. 1. He first displayed his sagacity in the cause of Susanna, (Chap. xiii.; Calmet) whose history was placed at the head of the book, in Theodotion, (St. Jerome in Isaias iii. 1.) as in its natural order. (Calmet)
In the later discussion we shall explain how it was that Daniel who is here described as having continued till the first year of king Cyrus afterwards held office in the third year of that same Cyrus and is even recorded to have lived in the first year of Darius.
