Daniel 5:5

“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, etc. From heaven, as Jarchi; or they came forth as if they came out of the wall: this was done by the power of God, though it might be by the intervention or means of an angel; so Josephus Ben Gorionf201 says, that an angel came and wrote what follows; and Saadiah says it was Gabriel, called a man, (<271121>Daniel 11:21), but this is conjecture; however, at the very time the king and his nobles were feasting and revelling, praising their idols, and reproaching the God of Israel, this wonderful phenomenon appeared: and wrote over against the candlestick, upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; this candlestick was either upon the…”

“In the same hour--that the cause of God's visitation might be palpable, namely, the profanation of His vessels and His holy name. fingers of . . . hand--God admonishes him, not by a dream (as Nebuchadnezzar had been warned), or by a voice, but by "fingers coming forth," the invisibility of Him who moved them heightening the awful impressiveness of the scene, the hand of the Unseen One attesting his doom before the eyes of himself and his guilty fellow revellers. against the candlestick--the candelabra; where the mystic characters would be best seen. BARNES makes it the candlestick taken from the temple of Jerusalem, the nearness of the writing to it intimating that the rebuke was directed…”

“In the same hour - On the word “hour,” see the note at Daniel 4:19. Came forth fingers of a man’s hand - Not the whole hand, but only the parts usually employed in writing. Not a man writing; not even an arm, but fingers that seemed to move themselves. They appeared to come forth from the walls, and were seen before they began to write. It was this that made it so impressive and alarming. It could not be supposed that it was the work of man, or that it was devised by man for the purpose of producing consternation. It was perfectly manifest to all who were there that this was the work of some one superior to man; that it was designed as a Divine intimation of some kind in regard to the scene…”

“Came forth fingers - The likeness of a man's hand. Daniel 5:6”

“5:5-6 The supernatural hand shocked and terrified the carousers. Yet Belshazzar remained unrepentant (5:29; cp. Jer 38:19-24; Acts 24:25).”

“the same: Dan 4:31, Dan 4:33; Job 20:5; Psa 78:30, Psa 78:31; Pro 29:1; Luk 12:19, Luk 12:20; Th1 5:2, Th1 5:3 wrote: Dan 5:8, Dan 5:15, Dan 5:24-28; Col 2:14; Rev 20:12-15 Daniel 5:6”