OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 1:21

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Daniel continued serving even to the first year of King Cyrus.

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Verse 21. Cyrus; and also to the third, (Calmet. 10) and of course during the whole of the captivity. Worthington.—He was maintained in power by the conqueror of Babylon. Calmet. 6:18 and 14:1. He first displayed his sagacity in the cause of Susanna, (Calmet. 13. Calmet.) whose history was placed at the head of the book, in Theodotion, (Saint Jerome in Isai. iii. 1) as in its natural order. Calmet.

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