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John Gill's Exposition on Daniel 5:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then the kings countenance changed, etc.] Or, “his brightness”f203; his ruddy countenance, his florid looks, his gay airs; all his jollity and mirth, that appeared in his face, were changed into paleness, sadness, and confusion: and his thoughts troubled him; what should be the meaning of this; perhaps he might immediately fear it presaged ruin and destruction to him; the sins of his former life might at once come into his thoughts, and those particularly he had now been guilty of; his luxury and intemperance, his idolatry and profanation of the vessels of the sanctuary, which his conscience might accuse him of, and give him great distress and trouble: so that the joints of his loins were loosed; or, “the girdles of his loins”f204; which were loosed or broke, through the agitation he was in; or he was all over in a sweat, so that he was obliged to loose his girdle; or, as persons in great fear and consternation, he was seized with a pain in his back; it opened as it were; nor could he hold his urine; as Grotius and others; (see <234501> Isaiah 45:1), where this seems to be prophesied of: and his knees smote one against another; as is the case of persons in a great tremor, or under a panic. “Et subito genua intremuere timore”.-Ovid.
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