Median] In that there wer Parsin partners, not of Madai onely, but also of Elam: we must know, that Cyrus King of Paras or Elam, was fellow in Empire with Darius: and of that we have expresse warrant, 2 Chron. 36. 20. where the Jews are servants to the Chaldeans untill Paras reigneth. being] Chald. he as the sonne of, &c. about] Or, now. threescore and two year old] Darius being 6. at the fall of Babel, which Empire lasted 70 years, falleth to be born at the eight of Nebuchadnezzar, when he carried the King Jeconiah captive, and all the Nobles, and ten thousand valiant men, and all Jerusalem, and all saving the base of the land; and had carried away all the treasure of the house of the Lord, and brake all the vessels of the Temple which King Solomon made: see 2 King. 24. 13, 15. Then Madai, who with Elam must revenge the cause of Judah, had a Prince born. To what better purpose should Daniel tell the Kings age, then to shew how God provided a remedy when he stroke?