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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verses 30, 31. "On that same night Belshazzar, King of the Chaldeans, was slain, and Darius the Mede succeeded to his kingdom at the age of sixty-two." Josephus writes in his tenth book of the Jewish Antiquities that when Babylon had been laid under siege by the Medes and Persians, that is, by Darius and Cyrus, Belshazzar, King of Babylon, fell into such forgetfulness of his own situation as to put on his celebrated banquet and drink from the vessels of the Temple, and even while he was besieged he found leisure for banqueting. …
Hippolytus of Rome
In the same night king Belshazzar the Chaldean was killed and Darius the Mede received the kingdom being sixty-two years old. [Daniel 5:29-31] After the interpretation had been solved by Daniel, just as Scripture encompasses all things, in the same night the phrase was fulfilled and the kingdom of the Babylonians passed to the Medes, just as was spoken by Daniel, "He appoints kings and removes them knowing what is in darkness and light is with him" [Daniel 2:21, 22]
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