ALso I, in the first year] These are the words of the Angel who was mentioned in the former Chapter: his meaning is, I have been assisting to the destruction of Nebuchadnezzars progenie by Darius, and so have beaten down the Chaldeans Empire. Daniel 5:31. So that by the Angel the golden head was broken to powder: by the petition of the watcher, the axe was laid to the root of the tree, and the Lion pluckt, and Belshazzar slain: that the stones power might be known, and the Highest might be seen to sit upon the fiery throne, with bookes open: and the hand-writing might be seene to come from God: and Michael to stand up. We are likewise to regard Christ the Governour through all these Kings, that shall reign before the building up of the Temple. So this Angelique Oration may be unto us as a book of the warres of God: even to call profane writers to the use of holy stories, and proof of the Gospel, which after these so many particulars, was in the set time to be shewed. Darius the Mede] Chap. 9. 1.