Daniel 4:15

15 Pero dejen en la tierra el tocón con las raíces,
sujeto con una faja de hierro y bronce
y rodeado por la hierba tierna.
Que lo moje el rocío del cielo,
y que viva con los animales salvajes entre las plantas del campo.

Daniel 4:15 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:15

Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth
Let him not be utterly destroyed, or his life taken away; but let him continue in being; though in a forlorn condition, yet with hope of restoration; for a tree may be cut down to the stump, and yet revive again, ( Job 14:7-9 ) and let his kingdom remain: even with a band of iron and brass;
which some think was done to preserve it and to show that his kingdom remained firm and immovable; but that is meant by the former clause, ( Daniel 4:26 ) , rather the allusion is to his distracted condition afterwards related; it being usual to bind madmen with chains of iron or brass, to keep them from hurting themselves and others, as in ( Mark 5:4 ) : in the tender grass of the field;
where his dwelling should be, not in Babylon, and in his fine palace, living sumptuously as he now did; but in the field, grazing there like a beast, and like one that is feddered and confined to a certain place: and let it be wet with the dew of heaven;
suggesting that this would not only be his case in the daytime; but that he should lie all night in the field, and his body be wet all over with the dew that falls in the night, as if he had been dipped in a dyer's vat, as the word ^F13 signifies; and Jarchi says it has the signification of dipping; and not be in a stately chamber, and on a bed of down, but on a plot of grass, exposed to all the inclemencies of the air: and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth;
instead of feeding on royal dainties, as he had all his days, let him eat grass like the beasts of the field, as it seems he did.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (ebjuy) "tingatur", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster; "intingatur", Junius & Tremellius; "tingetur", Piscator, Michaelis.

Daniel 4:15 In-Context

13 »”Luego mientras soñaba, vi a un mensajero,
un santo que descendía del cielo.

14 El mensajero gritó:
‘¡Talen el árbol y córtenle las ramas!
¡Sacúdanle las hojas y desparramen su fruta!
Espanten los animales salvajes que están bajo su sombra
y las aves que están en sus ramas.

15 Pero dejen en la tierra el tocón con las raíces,
sujeto con una faja de hierro y bronce
y rodeado por la hierba tierna.
Que lo moje el rocío del cielo,
y que viva con los animales salvajes entre las plantas del campo.

16 Durante siete períodos de tiempo
que tenga la mente de un animal salvaje,
en lugar de una mente humana.

17 Pues esto es lo que decretaron los mensajeros;
es lo que ordenan los santos,
para que todos sepan
que el Altísimo gobierna los reinos del mundo
y los entrega a cualquiera que él elija,
incluso a las personas más humildes’.