Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said ... unto him, I have found a man - like all courtiers, in announcing agreeable tidings, he ascribes the merit of the discovery to himself (Jerome). So far from it being a discrepancy that he says nothing of the previous understanding between him and Daniel, or of Daniel's application to the king for "time," by means of some courtier (Daniel 2:15-16), it is just what we should expect. Arioch, the chief of the executioners, would not dare to tell an absolute despot that he had stayed the execution of his sanguinary decree, on his own responsibility; but would, in the first instance, secretly stay it until Daniel had got, by application from the king, the time required, without Arioch seeming to know of Daniel's application as the cause of the respite; then, when Daniel had received the revelation, Arioch would in trembling haste bring him in, as if then for the first time he had "found" him. The very difficulty, when cleared up, is a proof of genuineness, as it never would be introduced by a forger.