Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 4:33
Was driven from men — Being bereft of his understanding, as a man distracted he fled, and betook himself to the woods.
Was driven from men — Being bereft of his understanding, as a man distracted he fled, and betook himself to the woods.
THE SAME HOUR WAS THE THING FULFILLED - On the word hour, see the note at Daniel 4:19. The use of the word here would seem to confirm the suggestion there made that it means a brief period of time. Th...
CHAPTER 4 THE TREE VISION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR _ 1. The king's proclamation (Daniel 4:1)_ 2. The king relates the tree vision (Daniel 4:4) 3. Daniel interprets the vision (Daniel 4:19) 4. The tree vi...
DANIEL 4. This chapter takes us again into the realm of Apocalyptic. Nebuchadnezzar dreams a fresh dream. This time he sees a gigantic tree, the top of which reached to heaven, full of leaves and frui...
The fulfilment of the dream....
_The same hour_ Daniel 3:6. _the thing_ or, _the_ WORD, i.e. the announcement of Daniel 4:31. _did eat … was wet_ The tenses express what was habitual (cf. Daniel 4:12). _till his hairs were grown_,...
f. DESPOT'S DERANGEMENT TEXT: Daniel 4:28-33 28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. 30 The king spake and s...
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' f...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM AND ITS FULFILMENT In the form of a proclamation Nebuchadnezzar records his experience of the power of the Most high God (Daniel 4:1). He had a dream which none of his wise men...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 4 V1 I, King Nebuchadnezzar, send this message to everyone in the world. I am writing to the people in every country who speak every la...
THE THING FULFILLED. — The malady of Nebuchadnezzar has frequently formed the subject of discussion, and it is now for the most part agreed that it was a form of mania known as _lycanthropy._ The pecu...
_[Daniel 4:30]_ בַּהּ ־שַׁעֲתָ֗א מִלְּתָא֮ סָ֣פַת עַל...
THE BABYLONIAN CEDAR, AND THE STRICKEN DESPOT THRICE already, in these magnificent stories, had Nebuchadrezzar been taught to recognise the existence and to reverence the power of God. In this chapte...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S HUMILIATION Daniel 4:19-37 Beyond doubt Nebuchadnezzar was one of the most illustrious princes the world has ever seen. The discoveries which Layard commenced among the mounds of the...
The last story connected with the reign of Nebuchadnezzar consisted of the king's own manifesto, setting forth the dealings of the Most High God with him. The opening ascription of praise is most rema...
_Shape. He had not assumed that of an ox, (Haydock) but had greatly neglected his person, (Calmet) so that he was covered with hair, &c. (ver. 30.) (Haydock)_...
Reader! how truly affecting is this history! What an awful testimony in confirmation, that the judgment of the enemies of God's Christ, lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Some curious...
The Prophet concludes what he had said: As soon as the voice had come down from heaven, Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from mankind! Some occasion of expelling him might have preceded this; but since the...
In chapter 4 we see the manifestation of human pride; the king glories in the work of his hands, as though he had created his own greatness. This pride brings judgment. Power is reduced to the conditi...
THE SAME HOUR WAS THE THING FULFILLED UPON NEBUCHADNEZZAR,.... Whence it appears that this was a true history, and a matter of fact; and not a parable or allegory, as Origen thought, describing the fa...
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' [f...
_All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar_ With what admirable propriety is the person changed here! the six following verses being delivered in the third person. But in the 34th, Nebuchadnezzar, ha...
THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DREAM...
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, so that there could be no doubt as to cause and effect; AND HE WAS DRIVEN FROM MEN AND DID EAT GRASS AS OXEN, AND HIS BODY WAS WET WITH THE D...
28-37 Pride and self-conceit are sins that beset great men. They are apt to take that glory to themselves which is due to God only. While the proud word was in the king's mouth, the powerful word cam...
HE WAS DRIVEN FROM MEN; being bereft of his understanding, as a man distracted, he fled, and betook himself to the woods; or was thrust and driven out, either by popular tumults, or conspiracy of his...
Daniel 4:33 hour H8160 word H4406 fulfilled H5487 (H8754) concerning H5922 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 driven H2957 (H8752) f
‘The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until his hair was grown like eagles' feathe...
Daniel 4 I. In this chapter we have a solemn and instructive warning against pride and vain-glory. II. A sad illustration of the proverb that pride goeth before a fall. III. A beautiful illustratio...
CONTENTS: Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation. The true vision and its interpretation. Vision fulfilled; the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. CHARACTERS: God, Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Astrologers. CONCLUSION:...
The three first verses of this chapter in Theodotian and the Vulgate, are appended to the third chapter; but seem to stand better as in the English, being the introduction to the dream. Daniel 4:5. _...
_He was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen._ BROKEN PRIDE This chapter, which is a rescript to all the provinces of his empire, was written by king Nebuchadnezzar. It is a frank, affecting,...
_Wherefore, O King, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee._ DANIEL’S COUNSEL Daniel gives counsel to the king like a man of God, directing him to break off his sins by righteousness, and his iniqui...
MOMENTS, OF ASTONISHMENT “Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him.” There are moments of astonishment in all true ministries. The word “hour”...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar has another dream, and Daniel again is the only one of his officials able to interpret it. This dream concerns Nebuchadnezzar’s own need to acknowledge that th...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 4:28 A year went by, but Nebuchadnezzar was unchanged. The view from THE ROOF OF THE ROYAL PALACE OF BABYLON included numerous ornate temples, the hanging gardens, and the outer...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XVI.—NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S MADNESS (Chap. Daniel 4:28) “Riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure to all generations?” History presents us with many and great contrasts occurri...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 4:1 THE MADNESS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. We follow here the division of chapters which we find in our English Version, and as, indeed, in all modern versions. The Aramaic concludes the t...
Now Nebuchadnezzar the king, [a proclamation] unto all the people, nation, languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that th...
1 Thessalonians 5:2; Daniel 5:5; Daniel 4:25; Daniel 4:32; Isaiah 30:14