Daniel 6:5

Pliny said of old, it is the custom of courtiers to study how to make innocent men faulty, and Scripture and experience tell us that the most religious are accounted most dangerous to the government, and that debauchery is loyalty; and that flatterers ought to be the best favourites. Ezra 4:12 Nehemiah 6:5 Esther 3:8 Daniel 3:12, and this text, are plain proofs of it, besides the experience of every age to this day. This was for the honour of Daniel's integrity, and for a brand of infamy upon his malicious enemies.