Being now prepared, he goes to Arioch to go in with him to the king; and bid him stay his hand, and not destroy the wise men of Babylon. Arioch might plead the king's command, Daniel tells him that was because they could not tell the king's dream: come, saith he, I will show that; by that I take away the ground of thy commission to destroy. Quest. Did Daniel do well in desiring to have them spared, who deserved to die for their unlawful arts, diviners, necromancers, &c.? Answ. Two things are usually answered to this:
1. They were not all such, some were innocent, studied arts and sciences lawful and laudable.
2. Those that were otherwise, he pleaded not for them as such, but for justice, that they ought not to die unjustly; and that was their case and cause.