Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask [a petition] of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing [is] true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Ver. 12. Hast thou not signed a decree?] But should "wickedness be established by a law?" Psa 94:20 See on Daniel 6:7. So in France there was published an edict whereby the people were forbidden on pain of death to have in their houses any French book wherein the least mention was made of Jesus Christ. a
a Dr Arrowsmith's Tact. Sacr., p. 89.