John Gill's Exposition on Daniel 2:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The king answered and said, I know of certainty, etc.] I see plainly and clearly what you are at, and am fully assured you mean nothing, but that ye would gain the time: or buyf78, or redeem time, as in (<490516>Ephesians 5:16), prolong time, put off the answer to longer time; spin out time, as people do in buying and selling; or have it in their possession and power when to answer; and so by gaining time, or being master of it, might hope something would turn up to their advantage, and extricate them out of their present difficulties: because ye see the thing is gone from me; the dream he could not remember; or because the decree was certain which he had determined concerning them; (see Gill on “<270205>Daniel 2:5”).

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