Daniel 3:8-12

It is very evident, that the whole design of this new dunghill God set up, was, with a view to criminate the faithful Jews. And as upon the late occasion, at the instance of Daniel; those three men were advanced to high honors in Babylon, against those the deadly bow was leveled. I pray the Reader to remark with me two things, which, though the Holy Ghost hath not explained, the Lord the Spirit certainly intended the faithful should not overlook. The one is, that Daniel, though by the Chaldeans called Belteshazzar, in relation to their idol god Bel; yet, carefully avoids it in the history, as if despising it, and keeps close to his own real name, in honour of the God of Israel. And the other is, that in this accusation of Daniel's companions, Daniel himself is not mentioned. There is no way of accounting for this, but by supposing what is likely to be the case; that Daniel at this time might be absent from the Babylonish court.