Promotion has not eroded it or seduced him to love other things more than his God. So as the chapter opens we find him reading his Bible. It would not have been a single volume like our printed Bibles today, but a collection of scrolls, or ‘books’, as it is translated in many versions. Daniel was a great prophet and had had many remarkable visions and revelations, but he never outgrew the need to read his Bible. His example is worth noting. On this particular occasion he is reading from the scrolls