sealed it with his own signet seals were in common use alike among the Assyrians, Babylonians (cf. Hdt. i. 195, -every one has a seal"), and Persians; and numbers, especially from Babylonia and Assyria, have been brought to European museums during the past half century. The signet cylinder of Darius Hystaspis represented the king as engaged in a lion hunt (Rawlinson, Anc. Mon.iii. 226, 227). Cf. (in Israel) 1 Kings 21:8; and (in Persia) Esther 3:12; Esther 8:8; Esther 8:10.

that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel(R.V.)] i.e. that nothing might be done, either by the king, or by anyone else, to rescue Daniel. The word, meaning properly will, purpose, is here used in the weakened sense of thing, which it has in the Aramaic of Palmyra (Lidzbarski, Handbuch der Nordsemitischen Epigraphik(1898), p. 464, l. 6, -about these things"), as well as constantly in Syriac, as Sir 32:19 (Pesh.) -Do not anythingwithout counsel."

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