Dànyǐlǐshū 5:8

8 Yúshì wáng de yīqiè zhé shì dōu jìnlái , què bùnéng dòu nà wén zì , yĕ bùnéng bǎ jiǎngjiĕ gàosu wáng .

Dànyǐlǐshū 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:8

Then came in all the king's wise men
The whole college of them, the persons before described; over whom, in Nebuchadnezzar's time, Daniel was the chief of the governors, ( Daniel 2:48 ) , these came in readily, in hope of getting both riches and honour: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the
interpretation thereof;
for if they could not do the former, it must be impossible to do the latter; of the reason of which, various are the conjectures ^F16: as that, though these words were written in Chaldee, yet in characters, as the Samaritan or Phoenician, they did not understand; or were written without points, and so they knew not which were the proper ones to put to them; or they were written according to the position of the letters of the alphabet, called "athbash", of which (See Gill on Jeremiah 25:26), or the words were placed so as to be read backward, or else downward, and not straightforward; or they were all in one word; or only the initial letters of words; but the true reason was, that it was so ordained by the Lord, that they should not be able to read and interpret them; this being reserved for another man, Daniel, that he might have the honour, and God the glory.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Vid. Jac. de Clerice Dissertat. de Epulo Belshazzar, in Thesaur. Theolog. Philol. vol. 1. p. 885.

Dànyǐlǐshū 5:8 In-Context

6 Jiù biàn le liǎnsè , xīnyì jīng huáng , yào gú hǎoxiàng tuō jié , shuāng xī bǐcǐ xiāng pèng ,

7 Dàshēng fēnfu jiāng yòng fǎshù de hé Jiālèdǐ rén bìng guān zhào de lǐng jìnlái , duì Bābǐlún de zhé shì shuō , shuí néng dòu zhè wén zì , bǎ jiǎngjiĕ gàosu wǒ , tā bì shēn chuān zǐ paó , xiàng daì jīn liàn , zaì wǒ guó zhōng wèi liè dì sān .

8 Yúshì wáng de yīqiè zhé shì dōu jìnlái , què bùnéng dòu nà wén zì , yĕ bùnéng bǎ jiǎngjiĕ gàosu wáng .

9 Bǎi shā sǎ wáng jiù shén jīng huáng , liǎnsè gǎibiàn , tāde dàchén yĕ dōu jīngqí .

10 Taì hòu ( huò zuò huáng hòu xià tóng ) yīn wáng hé tā dàchén suǒ shuō de huà , jiù jìnrù yàn gōng , shuō , yuàn wáng wàn suì . nǐ xīnyì búyào jīng huáng , liǎnmiàn búyào biàn shǎi .