Daniel 2:45
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What does Daniel 2:45 mean?
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of
the
mountain without hands (See Gill on Daniel
2:34) and that it brake in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay, the silver,
and the gold;
of which the image was made he had seen in his dream; and which
represented the several monarchies of the world in succession,
and described their nature, condition, and circumstances, and the
ruin of them; (See Gill on Daniel
2:35) the great God hath made known to the king
what shall come to pass
hereafter;
after his own death, and in his own monarchy; and what will be
the fate of succeeding ones; what will come to pass in each of
the ages of time, and what will be done in the last days; what an
everlasting kingdom there will be, when the kingdoms of this
world shall be no more; and this the "great" God, who is great in
knowledge as well as power, made known to him, which none else
could; and by which he appears to be great, and above all gods,
as Nebuchadnezzar afterwards owns; and which Daniel here suggests
to him; see ( Isaiah 45:21
) ( Isaiah
46:9 Isaiah 46:10
) : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation
thereof sure;
this is certainly the dream the king had dreamed, for the truth
of which he appeals to him; and the interpretation of it given
would be most surely and faithfully accomplished, on which he
might depend; for since the dream had been so distinctly related
to him, he had no room to doubt of the true interpretation of it.
