Dànyǐlǐshū 4:16

16 Shǐ tāde xīn gǎibiàn , bù rú rén xīn . gĕi tā yī gè shòu xīn , shǐ tā jīngguò qī jī ( qī huò zuò nián . bĕn zhāng tóng ) .

Dànyǐlǐshū 4:16 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:16

Let his heart be changed from man's
Not as to the substance, but as to the quality: and let a beast's heart be given unto him;
from a human heart, let it be changed into a brutal one; let him be deprived of the use of reason, and have no more exercise of it than a brute has; let him be wholly governed by the animal senses, and behave and act as a beast does; be as senseless, stupid, and savage, as that: and such a heart Nebuchadnezzar had; not that his rational soul departed from him, then he must have died; but the powers of it were sadly vitiated and depraved; his understanding, imagining himself to be a beast, not a man; his judgment, in not distinguishing the actions of a beast from those of a man; his memory of things past utterly failed; he forgot what he had been, and was; his will, inclination, and fancy, were towards brutal things, and ran upon deserts, fields, and grass; and he shunned the society of men: and let seven times pass over him:
while in this condition; let him remain so long in it; not seven months, as Abarbinel, and others; nor seven half years, or three years and a half, as some in Theodoret; dividing the year into two parts, summer and winter; and suppose, that seven of these seasons passed over him before he recovered; but seven years are meant, as Jarchi, Saadiah, and Jacchiades, as the phrase is used in ( Daniel 7:25 ) ( 12:7 ) , so many years the temple of Solomon was building, which Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed, and so long this madness must remain upon him: no notice is taken of this affair by Heathen writers, only Abydenus ^F14 says, that being under a divine afflatus, he foretold the destruction of the Babylonian empire by a Persian mule (meaning Cyrus), and by a Mede, and immediately, (hfanisto) , he disappeared; which some have understood of this time of his madness, which quickly followed upon this dream.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 457.

Dànyǐlǐshū 4:16 In-Context

14 Dàshēng hūjiào shuō , fá dǎo zhè shù . kǎn xià zhīzǐ . yáo diào yèzi . pāo sǎn guǒzi . shǐ zǒushòu líkāi shù xià , fēiniǎo duǒ kāi shùzhī .

15 Shù dūn què yào liú zaì dì neì , yòng tiĕ juān hé tóng juān gū zhù , zaì tiānyĕ de qīngcǎo zhōng ràng tiān lòu dī shī , shǐ tā yǔ dì shang de shòu yītóng chī cǎo ,

16 Shǐ tāde xīn gǎibiàn , bù rú rén xīn . gĕi tā yī gè shòu xīn , shǐ tā jīngguò qī jī ( qī huò zuò nián . bĕn zhāng tóng ) .

17 zhè shì shǒu wàng zhĕ suǒ fā de méng , shèng zhĕ suǒ chū de líng , hǎo jiào shìrén zhīdào zhìgāo zhĕ zaì rén de guó zhōng zhǎngquán , yào jiang guó cì yǔ shuí jiù cì yǔ shuí , huò lì jí bēiwēi de rén zhí zhǎng guó quán .

18 Zhè shì wǒ Níbùjiǎnísǎ wáng suǒ zuò de mèng . bǎi tí shā sǎ a , nǐ yào shuō míng zhè mèng de jiǎngjiĕ . yīnwei wǒ guó zhōng de yīqiè zhé shì dōu bùnéng jiāng mèng de jiǎngjiĕ gàosu wǒ , wéidú nǐ néng , yīn nǐ lǐtou yǒu shèng shén de líng .