Daniel 4:13

“I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, etc.] The king goes on to relate what other things presented themselves to his imagination in his dream, concerning this tree which signified himself: and, behold, a watcher: which Saadiah interprets of Bath Kol; but Aben Ezra, Jarchi, Jacchiades, and Ben Melech of an angel; so called because incorporeal, ever watches, and never sleeps, and is always attentive to, and observant of, the commands of God so the angels in the fragment of Enoch are called “egregori”, watchers; and the same word is here used in the Alexandrian copy. Somef153 render it “an enemy”, “an holy one”: according to the sense of the word in (<092816>1 Samuel 28:16), and produce…”

“watcher and an holy one--rather, "even an holy one." Only one angel is intended, and he not one of the bad, but of the holy angels. Called a "watcher," because ever on the watch to execute God's will [JEROME], (Psa 103:20-21). Compare as to their watchfulness, Rev 4:8, "full of eyes within . . . they rest not day and night." Also they watch good men committed to their charge (Psa 34:7; Heb 1:14); and watch over the evil to record their sins, and at God's bidding at last punish them (Jer 4:16-17), "watchers" applied to human instruments of God's vengeance. As to GOD (Dan 9:14; Job 7:12; Job 14:16; Jer 44:27). In a good sense (Gen 31:49; Jer 31:28). The idea of heavenly "watchers" under the…”

“I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed - In the visions that passed before me as I lay upon my bed, Daniel 4:10. And, behold, a watcher and an holy one - Or rather, perhaps, “even a holy one;” or, “who was a holy one.” He evidently does not intend to refer to two beings, a “watcher,” and “one who was holy;” but he means to designate the character of the watcher, that he was holy, or that he was one of the class of “watchers” who were ranked as holy - as if there were others to whom the name “watcher” might be applied who were not holy. So Bertholdt, “not two, but only one, who was both a watcher, and was holy; one of those known as watchers and as holy ones.” The copulative ו (v) and…”

“A watcher - A holy angel, the instrument of God, to execute God's judgments which the angels watch constantly to perform. Daniel 4:17”

“4:13 a holy one: The term holy is not widely used in the Semitic languages outside of the Bible. It simply refers to that which is out of the ordinary or nonhuman. Nebuchadnezzar was most probably using it that way here.”

“in the: Dan 4:5, Dan 4:10, Dan 7:1 a watcher. Either a holy angel, or a divine person, called a watcher, as watching over the affairs of men. Dan 4:17, Dan 4:23; Psa 103:20 an holy: Dan 8:13; Deu 33:2; Psa 89:7; Zac 14:5; Mat 25:31; Mar 1:24; Luk 4:34; Jde 1:14; Rev 14:10 Daniel 4:14”

“(4:10) By the words "I saw," etc., a new incident of the dream is introduced. "A watcher and an holy one came down from heaven." וקדּישׁ with the explic. ,ו even, and that too, brings it before us in a very expressive way that the עיר was an "holy one." עיר is not to be combined with ציר, a messenger, but is derived from עוּר, to watch, and corresponds with the Hebr. ער, Sol 5:2; Mal 2:12, and signifies not keeping watch, but being watchful, one who is awake, as the scholium to the εἴρ of Theodotion in the Cod. Alex. explains it: ἐγρήγορος καὶ ἄγρυπνος. Similarly Jerome remarks: "significat angelos, quod semper vigilent et ad Dei imperium sint parati." From this place is derived the…”