Daniel 2:38

38 nas tuas mãos ele pôs a humanidade, os animais selvagens e as aves do céu. Onde quer que vivam, ele fez de ti o governante deles todos. Tu és a cabeça de ouro.

Daniel 2:38 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 2:38

And wheresoever the children of men dwell
Not in every part of the habitable world, but in every part of his large dominion inhabited by men: the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven, hath he given
into thine hand;
all parks, chases, and forests (so that none might hunt or hawk without his permission), as well as the persons and habitations of men, were at his dispose; showing the despotic power and sovereign sway he had over his subjects: and hath made thee ruler over all:
men, beasts, and fowl: he not only conquered the Egyptians, Tyrians, and Jews, and other nations about them; but, according to Megasthenes ^F12 he exceeded Hercules in strength, and conquered Lybia and Iberia, and carried colonies of them into Pontus; and, as Strabo ^F13 says, carried his arms as far as the pillars of Hercules: thou art this head of gold;
or who was represented by the golden head of the image he had seen in his dream; not he personally only, but his successors Evilmerodach and Belshazzar, and the Babylonish monarchy, as possessed by them; for this refers not back to the Assyrian monarchy, from the time of Nimrod, but to its more flourishing condition in Nebuchadnezzar and his sons; called a "head", because the first of the monarchies; and golden, in comparison of other kingdoms then in being, and because of the riches of it, which the Babylonians were covetous of; hence Babylon is called the golden city, ( Isaiah 14:4 ) and it may be, because not so wicked and cruel to the Jews as the later monarchies were: from hence the poets have been thought by some to have taken their notion of the golden, silver, and iron ages, as growing worse and worse; but this distinction is observed by Hesiod, who lived many years before this vision was seen.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Apud Euseb. Prepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 456.
F13 Geograp. I. 15. p. 472.

Daniel 2:38 In-Context

36 “Foi esse o sonho, e nós o interpretaremos para o rei.

37 Tu, ó rei, és rei de reis. O Deus dos céus concedeu-te domínio, poder, força e glória;

38 nas tuas mãos ele pôs a humanidade, os animais selvagens e as aves do céu. Onde quer que vivam, ele fez de ti o governante deles todos. Tu és a cabeça de ouro.

39 “Depois de ti surgirá um outro reino, inferior ao teu. Em seguida surgirá um terceiro reino, reino de bronze, que governará toda a terra.

40 Finalmente, haverá um quarto reino, forte como o ferro, pois o ferro quebra e destrói tudo; e assim como o ferro despedaça tudo, também ele destruirá e quebrará todos os outros.