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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Daniel 2:27

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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cannot--Daniel, being learned in all the lore of the Chaldeans (Dan 1:4), could authoritatively declare the impossibility of mere man solving the king's difficulty. soothsayers--from a root, "to cut off"; referring to their cutting the heavens into divisions, and so guessing at men's destinies from the place of the stars at one's birth.
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