Daniel 2:29-49

Daniel 2:29

I take the severance of the stone from the mountain to denote the coming of Christ into the world, and the collision of the stone with the image to mean the founding by the Lord of that spiritual kingdom which is in its principles antagonistic to all the world-powers, and which will ultimately subdue them all. Thus viewed, the vision which Daniel recovered and interpreted suggests to us many interesting things concerning the kingdom of Christ.

I. There is, first, its superhuman origin. The stone was "cut out of the mountain without hands."

II. There is the comparative feebleness of its beginning. The language of the vision indicates that the stone grew from a small size until it became a huge mountain.

III. There is, in the third place, the gradualness of its progress. The stone grew until it became a mountain. Not all at once was the development made. And so in the kingdom which it symbolises advancement was by degrees.

IV. There is, fourthly, its universal extent. The mountain filled the whole earth." "The knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth."

V. There is, fifthly, the perpetual duration of this kingdom. It shall never be destroyed, and "it shall not be left to other people."

W. M. Taylor, Daniel the Beloved,p. 39.

References: Daniel 2:31. Preacher's Monthly,vol. vi., p. 306. Daniel 2:31. Homiletic Magazine,vol. xii., p. 324.Daniel 2:31. R. Payne-Smith, Ibid., vol. vi., p. 351.