Dànyǐlǐshū 2:38

38 Fán shìrén suǒ zhù zhī dì de zǒushòu , bīng tiānkōng de fēiniǎo , tā dōu jiāofù nǐ shǒu , shǐ nǐ zhǎng guǎn zhè yīqiè . nǐ jiù shì nà jīn tóu .

Dànyǐlǐshū 2:38 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 2:38

And wheresoever the children of men dwell
Not in every part of the habitable world, but in every part of his large dominion inhabited by men: the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven, hath he given
into thine hand;
all parks, chases, and forests (so that none might hunt or hawk without his permission), as well as the persons and habitations of men, were at his dispose; showing the despotic power and sovereign sway he had over his subjects: and hath made thee ruler over all:
men, beasts, and fowl: he not only conquered the Egyptians, Tyrians, and Jews, and other nations about them; but, according to Megasthenes ^F12 he exceeded Hercules in strength, and conquered Lybia and Iberia, and carried colonies of them into Pontus; and, as Strabo ^F13 says, carried his arms as far as the pillars of Hercules: thou art this head of gold;
or who was represented by the golden head of the image he had seen in his dream; not he personally only, but his successors Evilmerodach and Belshazzar, and the Babylonish monarchy, as possessed by them; for this refers not back to the Assyrian monarchy, from the time of Nimrod, but to its more flourishing condition in Nebuchadnezzar and his sons; called a "head", because the first of the monarchies; and golden, in comparison of other kingdoms then in being, and because of the riches of it, which the Babylonians were covetous of; hence Babylon is called the golden city, ( Isaiah 14:4 ) and it may be, because not so wicked and cruel to the Jews as the later monarchies were: from hence the poets have been thought by some to have taken their notion of the golden, silver, and iron ages, as growing worse and worse; but this distinction is observed by Hesiod, who lived many years before this vision was seen.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Apud Euseb. Prepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 456.
F13 Geograp. I. 15. p. 472.

Dànyǐlǐshū 2:38 In-Context

36 Zhè jiù shì nà mèng . wǒmen zaì wáng miànqián yào jiǎngjiĕ nà mèng .

37 Wáng a , nǐ shì zhū wáng zhī wáng . tiān shǎng de shén yǐ jiāng guódù , quánbǐng , nénglì , zūnróng dōu cìgĕi nǐ .

38 Fán shìrén suǒ zhù zhī dì de zǒushòu , bīng tiānkōng de fēiniǎo , tā dōu jiāofù nǐ shǒu , shǐ nǐ zhǎng guǎn zhè yīqiè . nǐ jiù shì nà jīn tóu .

39 Zaì nǐ yǐhòu bì Lìng xīng yī guó , bú jí yú nǐ . yòu yǒu dì sān guó , jiù shì tóng de , bì zhǎng guǎn tiān xià .

40 Dì sì guó , bìjiān zhuàng rú tiĕ , tiĕ néng dá suì kèzhì bǎi/bó wù , yòu néng yē suì yīqiè , nà guó yĕ bì dá suì yēzhì liè guó .