The Persian Daniel Chapter Six

The book of daniel is written in the form of chapters. The aromaic sections have a chaastic or book ended pattern, which can help us to get a firmer grip upon their more particular and overarching themes. Chapters four and five both concern the humbling perienced by two contrasted kings. And chapters three and six involve idolatrous decrees resisted by faithful jews who were then miraculously delivered from a death sentence. At the end of chapter five, darius was to receive the kingdom at the age of 62. That we have the age of a pagan king given in such a manner, is itself very strange as it is seemingly entirely incidental to the narrative.