Daniele 5:21

21 fu cacciato di tra i figliuoli degli uomini, il suo cuore fu reso simile a quello delle bestie, e la sua dimora fu con gli asini selvatici; gli fu data a mangiare dell’erba come ai buoi, e il suo corpo fu bagnato dalla rugiada del cielo, finché non riconobbe che l’Iddio altissimo, domina sul regno degli uomini, e ch’egli vi stabilisce sopra chi vuole.

Daniele 5:21 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:21

And he was driven from the sons of men
From their company, and from conversation with them; his madness was of that kind, that he chose rather to be with beasts than men; it drove him from men, and made him more desirous of being with beasts; or it was so intolerable, that his family, friends, and courtiers, were obliged to remove him from them, from his palace and court, and from all conversation with men, which he was incapable of through his frenzy and madness: and his heart was made like the beasts;
to have the same affections and desires as they have; to crave the same things they did, and like what they liked, and live as they lived: or, "he put his heart with the beasts" ^F24; either Nebuchadnezzar himself chose to be with them, and delighted in a beastly life; or God did it; he put such a heart into him, or so disposed it, that it became brutish; though to read the words impersonally, as before, seems best: and his dwelling was with the wild asses;
in a wilderness or field; or rather in some enclosed place, in one of his parks, where such creatures were kept for hunting; among these he dwelt, as being like them, having lost the use of his reason, and so was become stupid and sottish as they: and they fed him with grass like oxen;
as they are fed, and which he chose above any other food: and his body was wet with the dew of heaven;
being without clothes, and lying naked in some open place all night: till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and
that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will:
till he came to his senses, and was brought to see and own the sovereign dominion of the one, true, and living God, over all the kingdoms of the earth, and that they are at his dispose; ( Daniel 4:32 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (ywv atwyx Me hbblw) "cor ejus cum bestiis posuit", Vatablus, Calvin; "animum suum cum bestis posuit", Cocceius.

Daniele 5:21 In-Context

19 e a motivo della grandezza ch’Egli gli aveva dato, tutti i popoli, tutte le nazioni e lingue temevano e tremavano alla sua presenza; egli faceva morire chi voleva, lasciava in vita chi voleva; innalzava chi voleva, abbassava chi voleva.

20 Ma quando il suo cuore divenne altero e il suo spirito s’indurò fino a diventare arrogante, fu deposto dal suo trono reale e gli fu tolta la sua gloria;

21 fu cacciato di tra i figliuoli degli uomini, il suo cuore fu reso simile a quello delle bestie, e la sua dimora fu con gli asini selvatici; gli fu data a mangiare dell’erba come ai buoi, e il suo corpo fu bagnato dalla rugiada del cielo, finché non riconobbe che l’Iddio altissimo, domina sul regno degli uomini, e ch’egli vi stabilisce sopra chi vuole.

22 E tu, o Belsatsar, suo figliuolo, non hai umiliato il tuo cuore, quantunque tu sapessi tutto questo;

23 ma ti sei innalzato contro il Signore del cielo; ti sono stati portati davanti i vasi della sua casa, e tu, i tuoi grandi, le tue mogli e le tue concubine ve ne siete serviti per bere; e tu hai lodato gli dèi d’argento, d’oro, di rame, di ferro, di legno e di pietra, i quali non vedono, non odono, non hanno conoscenza di sorta, e non hai glorificato l’Iddio che ha nella sua mano il tuo soffio vitale, e da cui dipendono tutte le tue vie.