Daniel 4:25

25 serás expulso do meio dos homens, e a tua morada será com os animais do campo, e te farão comer erva como os bois, e serás molhado do orvalho do céu, e passar-se-ão sete tempos por cima de ti; até que conheças que o Altíssimo tem domínio sobre o reino dos homens, e o dá a quem quer.

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 E quanto ao que viu o rei, um vigia, um santo, que descia do céu, e que dizia: Cortai a árvore, e destruí-a; contudo deixai na terra o tronco com as suas raízes, numa cinta de ferro e de bronze, no meio da tenra relva do campo; e seja molhado do orvalho do céu, e seja a sua porção com os animais do campo, até que passem sobre ele sete tempos;

24 esta é a interpretação, ó rei é o decreto do Altíssimo, que é vindo sobre o rei, meu senhor:

25 serás expulso do meio dos homens, e a tua morada será com os animais do campo, e te farão comer erva como os bois, e serás molhado do orvalho do céu, e passar-se-ão sete tempos por cima de ti; até que conheças que o Altíssimo tem domínio sobre o reino dos homens, e o dá a quem quer.

26 E quanto ao que foi dito, que deixassem o tronco com as raízes da árvore, o teu reino voltará para ti, depois que tiveres conhecido que o céu reina.

27 Portanto, ó rei, aceita o meu conselho, e põe fim aos teus pecados, praticando a justiça, e �s tuas iniqüidades, usando de misericórdia com os pobres, se, porventura, se prolongar a tua tranqüilidade.