Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Ver. 19. Then the king arose very early in the morning.] He had lain all night on a bed of thorns, through trouble of mind, and was glad to get up, especially since sleep (the parenthesis of men's griefs and cares) was quite gone from him.
And went in haste.] Chald., With perturbation.
Unto the den of lions.] Quo venit Leo, et liberavit leonem de ore leonis a (say the Jewish doctors by a kind of riddle), whither came God, and delivered this Coeur-de-lion out of the mouth of the lions.
a Galatin., lib. v. cap. 8.