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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 5. "Therefore those men said: 'We will not find any pretext against Daniel, except perhaps in the law of his God.'" Blessed indeed is a life so led that even enemies can find no cause for accusation, except perhaps in matter pertaining to God's law.
Hippolytus of Rome
For then how many were they who pretended to be friends with Daniel, who wickedly hated him in heart? They falsely-sent gifts with other intentions and they ordered to give befitting gifts, wishing to test his sincerity, in order to have for the king a future pretext against him that they might appeal to the king that he was obliging himself to the king's possessions, and he in this way be killed as a plotter. And so at all times they resourcefully sought a cause against him. …
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