I thought it good better (R.V.) It hath seemed good unto me.

to shew to declare (Daniel 2:4). -Shew" suggests here, at least to modern readers, a wrong sense.

signs and wonders similarly in Darius's decree (Daniel 4:27). Cf. -signs and portents," Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 6:22; Deuteronomy 7:19 al.(where the Targ. of Pseudo-Jon. represents -portents" by the same word -wonders," which is used here). The meaning is, significant and surprising evidences of power. The phraseology of the proclamation, both in Daniel 4:2, and also in Daniel 4:34; Daniel 4:37, betrays its Jewish author.

the high God God Most High (Daniel 3:26).

toward lit. with, i.e. (in dealing) with: cf. Psalms 86:17 Heb.

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