Dànyǐlǐshū 4:31

31 Zhè huà zaì wáng kǒu zhōng shàng wèi shuō wán , yǒu shēngyīn cóng tiān jiàng xià , shuō , Níbùjiǎnísǎ wáng a , yǒu huà duì nǐ shuō , nǐde guó wèi líkāi nǐ le .

Dànyǐlǐshū 4:31 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice
from heaven
Before the king had done speaking in the above boasting manner, an articulate voice from heaven was heard by him, and all about him, formed by the angels, and much like what the Jews call Bath Kol; see ( Acts 12:21-23 ) , so Abydenus ^F7, in the account he gives of Nebuchadnezzar's oration to the people, relates, that when the king had spoke it, (paracrhma hfanisto) , immediately he disappeared:

saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken, the kingdom is
departed from thee;
that is, the administration of it; for he was not deposed, or declared to be no longer king; his office was not taken away from him, and another king set upon the throne; only the administration was taken into other hands, either of his wife or son, or his nobles; he being unfit for it, till such time as his reason returned to him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 457.)

Dànyǐlǐshū 4:31 In-Context

29 Guō le shí èr gè yuè , tā yóuxíng zaì Bābǐlún wánggōng lǐ ( yuánwén zuò shang ) .

30 Tā shuō , zhè dà Bābǐlún bú shì wǒ yòng dà néng dàlì jiàn wèi jīng dōu , yào xiǎn wǒ wēiyán de róngyào ma .

31 Zhè huà zaì wáng kǒu zhōng shàng wèi shuō wán , yǒu shēngyīn cóng tiān jiàng xià , shuō , Níbùjiǎnísǎ wáng a , yǒu huà duì nǐ shuō , nǐde guó wèi líkāi nǐ le .

32 Nǐ bì beì gǎn chū líkāi shìrén , yǔ yĕdì de shòu tóngjū , chī cǎo rú niú , qiĕ yào jīngguò qī qī . dĕng nǐ zhīdào zhìgāo zhĕ zaì rén de guó zhōng zhǎngquán , yào jiāng guó cì yǔ shuí jiù cì yǔ shuí .

33 Dāngshí zhè huà jiù yìngyàn zaì Níbùjiǎnísǎ de shēnshang , tā beì gǎn chū líkāi shìrén , chī cǎo rú niú , shēn beì tiān lòu dī shī , tóufa cháng cháng , hǎoxiàng yīng maó . zhǐ jiǎ cháng cháng , rútóng niǎo zhuǎ .