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John Gill's Exposition on Daniel 5:20
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened it pride, etc.] When his heart was elated with his successes and victories, with the enlargement of his dominions, and with his grandeur and glory he had arrived unto; and his pride increased yet more, till he was strengthened and hardened in it: or, “to deal proudly”f212; and behave haughtily to God and man: or, “to do wickedly”, as Jarchi interprets it; for pride and haughtiness of mind puts men, especially great men, kings and monarchs, on doing things extremely vile and wicked: he was deposed from his kingly throne; not by his nobles and subjects, but by the hand of God, which struck him with madness, and made him unfit for government; obliged him to quit the throne, and to range among the beasts of the field, as is afterwards observed: and they took his glory from him; the watchers, the angels, or the divine Persons that ordered the tree to be cut down to the roots, (<270414>Daniel 4:14,17,23), or it may be rendered impersonally, “and his glory was taken from him”f213; his glory as a man, being deprived of his reason, and acting like a brute beast; and his glory as a king, which departed from him for a season, while he was driven from men, from his royal palace and court, and lived among beasts, and fed as they did, as follows:
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