Daniel 4:3

3 And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

Daniel 4:3 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:3

How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders!
&c.] They are great, very great, exceeding great; so great that it cannot be said, nor even conceived how great they are, what a display of wisdom, power, and goodness is in them; they are wonderful beyond expression and conception; and so strong and mighty as not to be resisted and made void by all the powers of nature, earth, or hell; and if this may be said of his works of providence, and his miracles of that, how much more of his works and miracles of grace! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;
Nebuchadnezzar's reign, though a long one, had an end, and so have all others; but the kingdom of God is for ever; the kingdom of providence, and also of grace; the kingdom of his Son, the Messiah, as in ( Daniel 2:44 ) from whence Nebuchadnezzar had learnt this: and his dominion is from generation to generation;
or, "with generation and generation" ^F1; it goes along, and continues with all generations, and will do so to the end of time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (rdw rd Me) "cum generatione et generatione", Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis; "cum omni aetate", Piscator.

Daniel 4:3 In-Context

1 I Nabuchodonosor was thriving in my house, and prospering.

2 I saw a vision, and it terrified me, and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.

3 And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

4 So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers, Chaldeans came in: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof;

5 until Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God; to whom I said,