Daniel 4:25

25 Usted será expulsado de la sociedad humana y vivirá en el campo con los animales salvajes. Comerá pasto como el ganado y el rocío del cielo lo mojará. Durante siete períodos de tiempo vivirá de esta manera hasta que reconozca que el Altísimo gobierna los reinos del mundo y los entrega a cualquiera que él elija.

Daniel 4:25 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:25

That they shall drive thee from men
From conversation with men, as unfit for it; from his court and palace, from his nobles and princes. Saadiah interprets this of the angels: it may be rendered impersonally or passively, as in ( Daniel 4:33 ) , "thou shalt be driven from men" ^F18; not by his family, his wife and children; or by his nobles, who are afterwards said to seek him; but by the most high God, and to show his power over him; and it may be by means of his ministering angels; or he was driven by his own fancy and imagination, which was suffered of God to prevail over him, judging himself not a man, but a beast; and so it was most agreeable to him to live with beasts, and not men:

and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field;
in the open air, or in some den and cavern, instead of being in his court, and among his nobles; a strange change of condition indeed! and in which he was preserved by divine Providence:

and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen;
imagining himself to be a beast, he should choose this sort of food, and eat it, and feed upon it with a gust, as if he had really been one; and besides, having no other food, would be obliged to eat this, as well as his degenerate and depraved imagination led him to it:

and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven;
strip him of his clothes, and leave him naked; so that he should have nothing to shelter him from the dew and rain, and other inclemencies of the heavens; and this his frenzy might lead him to do of himself:

and seven times shall pass over thee;
which some understand of weeks, others of months, others of the seasons of winter and summer; but it is best to interpret it of seven whole years; (See Gill on Daniel 4:16):

till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and
giveth it to whomsoever he will;
this was done, as for the instruction of men in general, so of Nebuchadnezzar in particular; that his proud heart and haughty spirit might be brought down, and be made to acknowledge that there was a God higher than he, that judgeth in the earth, and that rules and overrules, and disposes of all things in it according to his will and pleasure; see ( Daniel 4:17 )

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (Nyrrj Kl) "truderis", Michaelis.

Daniel 4:25 In-Context

23 »”Luego usted vio a un mensajero, un santo que descendía del cielo y decía: ‘Talen el árbol y destrúyanlo, pero dejen en la tierra el tocón con las raíces, sujeto con una faja de hierro y bronce, y rodeado por la hierba tierna. Que lo moje el rocío del cielo. Que viva con los animales del campo durante siete períodos de tiempo’.

24 »”Esto es lo que significa el sueño, su Majestad, y lo que el Altísimo ha declarado que le sucederá a mi señor, el rey.

25 Usted será expulsado de la sociedad humana y vivirá en el campo con los animales salvajes. Comerá pasto como el ganado y el rocío del cielo lo mojará. Durante siete períodos de tiempo vivirá de esta manera hasta que reconozca que el Altísimo gobierna los reinos del mundo y los entrega a cualquiera que él elija.

26 Sin embargo, quedaron en la tierra el tocón y las raíces del árbol. Esto significa que usted recibirá nuevamente el reino cuando haya reconocido que es el cielo el que gobierna.

27 »”Rey Nabucodonosor, por favor, acepte mi consejo. Deje de pecar y haga lo correcto. Apártese de su perverso pasado y sea compasivo con los pobres. Quizá, entonces, pueda seguir prosperando”.