John Gill's Exposition on Daniel 4:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, etc.] So he called him, either because he excelled them in knowledge, and was greater than they, as Jacchiades; though not of their rank and order, which Daniel would have scorned to have been among, and reckoned of; so that this would have been no compliment, but a grief unto him; or because he was appointed by the king chief over them, and even over their governors; (see Gill on “<270248>Daniel 2:48”): because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee; (see Gill on “<270408>Daniel 4:8”); and no secret troubleth thee; any ways perplexes thy mind to find it out; it is easy to thee to come at; it gives thee no manner of trouble to get knowledge of it; there is no secret hidden from thee; all is plain before thee, and with the utmost facility canst thou reveal it: tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen; that is, the meaning of them; for the king remembered this his dream, and afterwards tells it very particularly: and the interpretation of it; it may be rendered, “that is, the interpretation of it”f151; for that only was what the king wanted.

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