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Washington hosts Fort Zumwalt South-7:30 on KLPW-AM 1220.
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The KLPW Radio Athlete of the Week is Junior Basketball Player Hailey Diestelkamp with the Owensville Dutchgirls. She recently became the all-time scoring leader at Owensville High School surpassing Katie Davis. Hailey played volleyball her first two years of high school, but after suffering an injury playing basketball last summer, she decided to focus on basketball this year. Hailey runs track in the spring.
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Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, November 29, 2012, at Byas Funeal Home Chapel in Cleveland. Burial will be in Union Grove Cemetery in Renova.
She is survived by mother, Willie B. Jennings; brothers, Eddie Jennings of Doddsville, Lewis Jennings of Horn Lake and Shannon Jennings of Cleveland; sisters, Linda Scott of Memphis, Tenn., Mary Ann Johnson of Houston, Texas, Canelda Hodges of Cleveland and Patricia Lucas of Cleveland.


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I agree with what everyone up above me has said. I personally go off of Finlands rather open dilogue regarding sex. Teaching our children about sex, what it means, realtionships and things to be aware of, is a good thing. I actually sat with my oldest at 10 and showed him a condom. We talked about the condom, how to use it, what it helps with and what it didn't. I gave him one to play with because the more you normalize using birth control the more likely a teen will. I also buy condoms in front of my boys ( even though I don't use them) just to reinforce and role model. I have never had ' A talk' with my kids. It's been an ongoing natrual process since the day they were born, starting out with, callng their genitals by the right name. I have an almost 16 year old that has never had sex. I know this because we talk about it. I know he wants to and he shares this. He knows it's normal and ok to want sex and we don't put it down. He is aware of std's and teen pregnancy. Going with the open and honest path that we have as parents has actually made our son not be active. He has abstained because of our openess. We have taken a lot of the curiosity out of it and made it a reality of sorts. Sex is normal to our family and we don't have any personal ties to religion, so that doens't get in our way. You should really research other countries. Google the lowest teen pregnancy rates and see what they do so differently then the United States. You can't wait till a kid is 13 or older to discuss sex. Start it now and just be age appropriate. I always told my kids if they ever had any questions that we would give them the truth compared to their friends. They have multiple times taken us up on that offer. BTW, I don't even want to imply that all of this has been easy or is easy. We have all had our uncomfy moments and still do. Most of that has been due to my own past, upbringing and fear. I don't want to rasie my children that way, though. So, I push past myself privately and go forward. It's my job and they deserve it.
I really appreciate your sharing and also I agree to your saying that sharing of such stories with ones kids depends upon the maurity level achieved. I have seen a profound effect in terms of growth pattern of kids and find it quiet un-expected as the maturity is coming at an early phase of life itself.
I came across this e-mail and it has me nervous, I have a boy who will be & in a few months and I thought I had a LONG time to go. I was thinking around 13 or 14 at the earliest. Seeing that it is on average to do this around 10 makes me sad. I feel its too young and at 10 years old my son should be into sports and other childhood activities, not sex. Its sad if thats what 10 year olds are doing. Would obviouls rather keep him safe and from becoming a teenage father.
Jennifer, I totally understand what you're saying. One way of looking at it, is that you're not taking away anything from your ds as a child. He will still be a kid, doing all of this normal stuff. Most 10 year olds are actually not interested in sex or even developmentally sexual. Girls still have cooties in many cases. It's about education ( although not teaching through fear). As parents we won't over-' sexualize' our children by giving correct educational information. Studies show that, by raising children with the correct information, answering their questions when asked ( instead of changing the subject), creating an environement to where the child feels he/she can talk and providing age appropriate information actually delays a child's first time experiance. What a parent is really doing is educating their child about their body and procreatiion. If a parent can take a more academic view of this whole process, it makes it so much easier. Imagine if a child had a human anatomy teacher as a parent. Or a child had a parent who was a dr. that specialized in std's. Or a child who's parent was a fertility/reproduction specialist. I would think these conversations would naturally come up in the home. I would think some of these people would enjoy sharing information/edcuation with their children. There is nothing sexual about education. That's how I really look at it all. Education takes a lot of the being curious and needing to look elsewhere ( which many times ends up being inappropriate) for information. I do believe teaching kids about sex and their bodies, before hititng puberty and all the natrual hormones that kick in, is best. Teens are very different when all their hormones kick. These conversations take on a whole new face and meaning compared to when a child has been educated in the younger years. You also get very different questions from a 10 year old compared to a 14 or 15 year old. 2 very different worlds. The older they are the less they want to talk as well, no matter how educational you try to be. They are easily embarrassed compared to when younger and sex really does have a whole new meaning, and their bodies biologically know it and feel it at that older age. Bottom line is the more educated a child is, the more confident he becomes, the longer he will wait ( typically), the less likey they are to enage in risky behavior and the less likely they are to a pregnant teen. Of course having a loving, involved supporitve and close family plays a big wonderful role as well. =)
Hey Christine
I think such stories are quiet important for kids as they help in developing imagination power of kids. They do have a profound effect on the child psychology as well. The very sense of love of kid towards pets and little animals starts developing ones you engage them with such stories. They start developing feeling of love and care to such cute animals. So i would say instead pf avoiding it, go for it.
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I tried the Milk Chocolate flavor, and it's sweet but not overwhelmingly so. It's free flowing like milk - for some reason I thought it would be thicker - and has a chocolate taste. Although there is "no sugar added" they do use alternative sweeteners, but there is no after taste. It's actually very delicious cold. Although it's called a "breakfast drink", I prefer to have mine in the afternoons, since it's usually a long break between lunch and dinner. Plus the protein (13 grams - 2x the amount in an egg they say) and low enough sugar content (12 grams) makes it a good pre-workout drink.
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feel bad for his family and the team. they'll be in my prayers.
feel bad for his family and the team. they'll be in my prayers.
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...ffftt ffftt ffftt!"
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rip. pretty sure the next home game will be dedicated to him.
Yall let me slip?!?!
This has got to be devastating. Prayers and blessings to the family, RIP...
"The greatness of the Raiders is in the future..." ~ Al Davis
RIP Tyson Williams
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Williams family.
some things are just more important. puts things in perspective. we're all raider family, but we're also human family. it hurts when family members feel loss. i just hope we don't get to the point where we stop feeling for or empathizing with each other.
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"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...ffftt ffftt ffftt!"
RIP , Its always sad to lose a loved one. My prayers and wishes to his family n freinds.
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Omg that is so sad!!!
RIP little one!
Don't like me?
Go have a seat with the rest of the putas waiting for me to give a flying fk.
As a father I can only speculate on how horrible this is for the family.
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I ever I have any doubts about the merits of being single I watch this:
I'm 29 and have been single nearly all of my adult life. I like living on my own at the moment, I get a bit lonely sometimes and think would a relationship be the answer but I don't want to get all needy and start looking because that never works. I like having close friends but people are soo transient these days and were always moving away from each other so I don't have a lot of history to talk about with most people I know or I sometimes think I shouldn't get too close because they might move away and move on with me getting hurt in the process. I don't want to start renting my spare room out as I need my space, if I was to go out with someone I would like it to be someone who also likes their own space and doesn't get hurt if I need some time apart. I also wouldn't begrudge them going out with their own friends without me and expect the same in return. I am also someone who has had the odd friend crush in the past.
Reading this, it looks like theres some other guys my age who are in the same situation.
Always fight or what or who you believe in
I'm fappy being single.
I think some people are single and happy about it, while others are single, but not by choice. I think if you wait until you are shit-less, you will wait a long time, because we are all faulty humans and we carry that into all of our relationships, not just the romantic ones.
I do understand what you are saying, however.
I guess what I was trying to say in my early post is that there seem to be a lot of negative ideas about relationships. To say that they don't require commitment and hard work would be dishonest, but to say you have to surrender the things that make us who we are is just not true, either. In fact, the differences between us are part of the beauty of life and love.
I would be interested to know how many here who hold the view that relationships mean loss of freedom have actually been in a relationship of some duration compared to those who have been mostly single. The latter would be like being on the outside looking in, while the former could come from being burned, I guess.
Perhaps it boils down to this: if you are happily partnered, you wonder why anyone would want to be single and if you are single, you wonder why others don't see relationship as too confining to allow for personal happiness.
Everyone wants to be heard. No one wants to listen.
you know something that actually annoys me. hard up 1 mentioned it. i hate it when people that are in relationships use their situation to take swipes at us single people in hopes of making us catch feelings, us to be jealous of them, or to have us feel bad about ourselves for being single. it's like we get that you're in a relationship and are happy about it. that's good for you. we're happy for you. that doesn't mean that people envy you or want to be in relationship as well and it certainly doesn't make you better than any of us either. i don't see how it does.
you have some people that just love to show off the fact that they're in a relationship or married especially in front of single people. they'll be like "i can't hang around you guys like that anymore, i gotta chill with my girlfriend or boyfriend or whoever" and things of that nature. that's some douchebag type shit. we get that you're partnered, breh. just because a couple of guys are all crying about not finding everybody doesn't mean that all of us single people feel the same way. there's certainly nothing wrong with me because i'm not in a relationship or have to answer to somebody like you do, breh. many of us are not preoccupied about that shit. we actually enjoy our freedom to move around and not have to be committed to somebody. so blah to that.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
There are also single people who like to take shots at those of us in relationships...trying to make us feel as if we're 'wasting our time', "trying to be like heteros", 'needy', etc. etc. the list goes on. It goes both ways.
And last I checked: I'm in a relationship. I have "freedom"(s). And I have time I get to spend with a great guy I enjoy sharing my life with. Best of both worlds.
Looking back--I can also see how fabulous it was being single as well. There are perks to both. There's no reason for animosity or tension from either side. Funny thing is a lot of people don't realize that until they've experienced both sides of the fence.
I've never assumed single people are automatically miserable. In fact, most people I know love to boast about their single status...as if they're "free" while I'm expected to be miserable in my boring, stale relationship.
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There is a difference between sharing things about our lives and rubbing it in others' noses. The latter is contemptible.
It seems like these relationship threads often go the way of the cut vs uncut threads by ending badly. One is not necessarily better than the other. The are just different. Nothing wrong with that unless you condemn someone for disagreeing.
I'm finished now.
Everyone wants to be heard. No one wants to listen.
yeah, there's single people outthere that are taking shots at a people in relationships but i don't think that it outnumbers the shots thrown by people in relationships though. i would say that it's for people in relationships in general (straight, gay, bi, whatever).
but then, i think that's the way society is though. being in a relationship is basically looked up to. when you're single especially for a long time, it's frowned on. for some reason, there's this weird idea that someone who isn't partnered up has something wrong with them and if they're a straight person, then all of a sudden they're secretly gay. *shrugs* hell, that's how a lot of gay rumors float around about celebrities. "oh that guy right there hasn't had a girlfriend in 15 years and if he has a girlfriend, he isn't outthere with her in hollywood. he's been single for a long time. he's always out on the red carpet by himself. he must be gay". maybe that dude likes to be single. maybe he doesn't give a fuck. hell, even this thread is inspired by the idea that being single is a bad thing or that there's something wrong with it. even if it wasn't a choice for me, i certainly ain't going to be crying or feeling sorry for myself because of it. hell no. i certainly don't live my life to be loved or to be in love. i don't put my time and effort into getting phone numbers or whatever because i don't care.
but speaking of all this though, i think people in general put too much care into things like relationship, love and sex to the point where it's ridiculous. it gets to the point where people are basically having the same conversation such as this one. i could have swore somebody made this thread about a month or two months ago asking the same question "are you happy being single?". after awhile, you begin to look at certain people's situations like "this person is upset that they're single", "this guy is having guy problems", "this guy has relationship problems". after awhile, i'm like shut up already, we get the point.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
i think that if anybody else makes this thread like this or similar threads and they've had a history of repeating it, they need to just fess up and admit that they're unhappy being single. i swear, some people are in denial that it's not even funny. they swear that they're happy when they're lying their asses off knowing that they're mad about being single. they need to look on the bright side and acknowledge their hand. masturbation is a gift. their hands aren't going to be as flexible as they are now. they need to look @ john mccain and muhammad ali. not dissing them at all but at one point, they were jerking off like the rest of us but now they're can't do that shit.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
Everyone wants to be heard. No one wants to listen.
Yeah but part of the problem is this thread was created in HT instead of the relationships forum. As such, it may be subject to some flaming or whatever. But how can you compare this thread to one about a relatively trivial issue like cut vs. uncut. For me, I see this subject (being single or not) with the utmost seriousness. As such, that should colour the discussion. But I see I may be wrong and this may be just another way of launching thinly-veiled personal attacks.
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I have held (and lived) both positions. The three relationships I had prior to this one I definitely experienced a loss of freedom and I had to struggle with holding on to my identity...to be fair it was already fragile and not their fault though at the time I wanted to blame them....
I loved being single....and those relationships probably taught me more about myself and other people than anything else in my life so I would begrudgingly experience them all over again because they led to to where I am today....they also helped me to really appreciate the times when I was single and I could have seen myself staying single my whole life ...very happily I might add.
....now I have a man (26 + years) who I don't just love unconditionally...I really like him too. For me..that is THE key. Everyone has different keys I suppose. I can say today I have more inner freedom than I have ever had BECAUSE of him...we have an amazing chemistry and I do believe we are soulmates. It IS alot of hard work though.
The thing is...there are many paths to bliss and some people maybe are meant to be single...and happy...and fulfilled. You can't fit a circle into a square and you shouldn't try. I personally have never even considered that being in a relationship is in any way superior to being single...I think this thread is the first time it has ever entered my thoughts. I have, however, considered a relationship a nightmare based on my experiences when I was single...I never had a desire for a relationship ironically...they just happened.
Since I quoted you in a previous post and then you wrote #58 I thought maybe it could seem like I was fighting your opinion. I didn't take your answer as confrontational either. I just wanted to make it clear
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I'm fine with it, but I would be happier to have someone in my life who loved and cared about me.
In his autumn, before the winter, comes man's last mad surge of youth
I'm getting old (40), and I'm perfectly ok with being single...not 'happy' or 'sad' simply ok with it, just doesn't bother me.
That said it may well because I have no idea what being in a relationship would be like since...
I've never been a relationship or dated or been even close with anyone.
There are times I think I'd really like to have a boyfriend.
Other times I want to remain single (and I pretty much assume I will end up being so forever)
I often daydream about having a sorta-boyfriend..just someone to cuddle with & kiss but nothing more (no sex/etc)
Really don't know a part of me wants love, another is very much afraid of it)
Yes, for the time being, I have enough troubles to deal with at the moment without adding a boyfriend to the mix.
I've had similar views, having never been in a relationship. But I've often heard these concerns voiced by folks in relationships, so I've never looked at my lack of experience as a factor.
And I think people in relationships take it the wrong way when I express these views. Not being in a relationship (to me) means not having to answer to someone, not having to plan things with someone, etc. If I wanted to get up and move to San Francisco in a few weeks, I'd be freer to make such a decision on a whim as a single man than if I were in a long-term relationship. I think it's the concept of being tied down that irks me. I can be a very flighty person at times and a commitment such a relationship is kind of a thorn to that way of life.
If you love the person you're with, these kinds of things are moot. But I feel like when folks in long-term loving relationships hear me speak, they act as if I'm casting them in some sort of hard, cold prison. That simply isn't the case, especially for them, and I know that. But the things we mention here: sacrifice/compromise that come when two loving people join a relationship--aren't always as necessary for a single person.
You are single and free now. Could you tell me some of things you are doing right now that you couldn't do if you were in a relationship, rather than just the things from the future?
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As of now, it's mainly spontaneous overnight trips here or there and various (random) bouts of time alone. And having complete control over how I like to spend holidays/occasions and such, which is a serious biggie for me.
I don't want to write off the future, however. I'm always thinking of picking up and going. I've pretty much alerted my good friends that if any one of them would like to move west in the forseeable future, I'm down for it. If anyone takes me up on it, I'm out.
NO! yet i'm a person how doesn't like people but i'm craving to squeeze someone between my arms and take care of him for almost the whole year (
Also could you rate how my english was in this post, please?
Yeah. There are people who tend to treat relationships like you're being held against your will or you're in a prison cell. It isn't "freedom" that is being lost considering you shouldn't even be with someone who wants to control you in any sort of way. You're making compromises and sacrifices if need be. And this is all a matter of choice from myself anyway, so if I am choosing to want to have my relationship a certain way, then how is any "freedom" actually being lost?


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The Chicago Cubs lost to the Milwaukee Brewers 18-1 last night. Tying a record for hits given up in a game and basically being embarrassed on their home field in front of their home fans. I almost felt sorry for them.
Instead, I decided to collect a bunch of tweets people posted after the game whining about their team. That seems much more like me, laughing at others displeasure.
bleedcubbieblue On Wrigley scoreboard they ran out of yellow numbers to indicate hits for #Brewers. Had to use a white 26. #Cubs
Jack_E04 Cubs you are terrible. Time to be a die heart sox fan
BballDude23 Worst. Cubs. Game. Ever. Ommmgggg
krazymoe Glad to see the Cubs only lost by 17 runs tonight. We'll get em one of these days...
rokkherCASBAH had a lot of fun at the cubs game even though they lost horribly. it was fun. :] i'm gonna miss my 3BJ boys. <3
ajaywadhwa I heard that @JohnCusack was at the Brewers 18-1 victory against the Cubs. It must be serendipity. The cubs got destroyed like it was 2012.
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My son was diagnosed with neuroblastoma stage IV on June 12, 2001. He has just completed his stem cell transplant and is about to start radiation therapy. My question concerns the rebuilding of healthy tissue that has been radiated. Our radiation oncologist said that my son would lose the function of his left kidney forever as a result of radiation. If our tissues rebuild themselves after radiation, why won't his kidney ever function again? I am considering not doing radiation therapy. I thank you for your time.
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Different tissues within the body have different tolerances to ionizing radiation. Some tissues are able to withstand relatively high doses of radiation without significant functional damage while others can be permanently damaged even with relatively low doses of radiation. The kidneys are known to be one of the more sensitive organs to the damaging effects of radiation. Typical doses used in the situation that you are describing for Stage IV neuroblastoma is in the 20-25 Gy range (21 Gy by our current protocol at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia). Your radiation oncologist is correct in his/her assessment that this is very likely to cause permanent damage to the irradiated kidney. Microvascular damage is thought by many to be the primary insult that produces this effect. However, you should keep the following in mind:
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Nebuchadnezzar's dream. (1-13) It is revealed to Daniel. (14-23) He obtains admission to the king. (24-30) The dream and the interpretation. (31-45) Honours to Daniel and his friends. (46-49)
Verses 1-13 The greatest men are most open to cares and troubles of mind, which disturb their repose in the night, while the sleep of the labouring man is sweet and sound. We know not the uneasiness of many who live in great pomp, and, as others vainly think, in pleasure also. The king said that his learned men must tell him the dream itself, or they should all be put to death as deceivers. Men are more eager to ask as to future events, than to learn the way of salvation or the path of duty; yet foreknowledge of future events increases anxiety and trouble. Those who deceived, by pretending to do what they could not do, were sentenced to death, for not being able to do what they did not pretend to.
Verses 14-23 Daniel humbly prayed that God would discover to him the king's dream, and the meaning of it. Praying friends are valuable friends; and it well becomes the greatest and best men to desire the prayers of others. Let us show that we value our friends, and their prayers. They were particular in prayer. And whatever we pray for, we can expect nothing but as the gift of God's mercies. God gives us leave in prayer to tell our wants and burdens. Their plea with God was, the peril they were in. The mercy Daniel and his fellows prayed for, was bestowed. The fervent prayers of righteous men avail much. Daniel was thankful to God for making known that to him, which saved the lives of himself and his fellows. How much more should we be thankful to God, for making known the great salvation of the soul to those who are not among the worldly wise and prudent!
Verses 24-30 Daniel takes away the king's opinion of his magicians and soothsayers. The insufficiency of creatures should drive us to the all-sufficiency of the Creator. There is One who can do that for us, and make known that to us, which none on earth can, particularly the work of redemption, and the secret designs of God's love to us therein. Daniel confirmed the king in his opinion, that the dream was of great consequence, relating to the affairs and changes of this lower world. Let those whom God has highly favoured and honoured, lay aside all opinion of their own wisdom and worthiness, that the Lord alone may be praised for the good they have and do.
Verses 31-45 This image represented the kingdoms of the earth, that should successively rule the nations, and influence the affairs of the Jewish church. 1. The head of gold signified the Chaldean empire, then in being. 2. The breast and arms of silver signified the empire of the Medes and Persians. 3. The belly and thighs of brass signified the Grecian empire, founded by Alexander. 4. The legs and feet of iron signified the Roman empire. The Roman empire branched into ten kingdoms, as the toes of these feet. Some were weak as clay, others strong as iron. Endeavours have often been used to unite them, for strengthening the empire, but in vain. The stone cut out without hands, represented the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, which should be set up in the kingdoms of the world, upon the ruins of Satan's kingdom in them. This was the Stone which the builders refused, because it was not cut out by their hands, but it is become the head stone of the corner. Of the increase of Christ's government and peace there shall be no end. The Lord shall reign, not only to the end of time, but when time and days shall be no more. As far as events have gone, the fulfilling this prophetic vision has been most exact and undeniable; future ages shall witness this Stone destroying the image, and filling the whole earth.
Verses 46-49 It is our business to direct attention to the Lord, as the Author and Giver of every good gift. Many have thoughts of the Divine power and majesty, who do not think of serving God themselves. But all should strive, that God may be glorified, and the best interests of mankind furthered.
Daniel 2:1-49 . NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM: DANIEL'S INTERPRETATION OF IT, AND ADVANCEMENT.
1. second year of . . . Nebuchadnezzar-- Daniel 1:5 shows that "three years" had elapsed since Nebuchadnezzar had taken Jerusalem. The solution of this difficulty is: Nebuchadnezzar first ruled as subordinate to his father Nabopolassar, to which time the first chapter refers ( Daniel 1:1 ); whereas "the second year" in the second chapter is dated from his sole sovereignty. The very difficulty is a proof of genuineness; all was clear to the writer and the original readers from their knowledge of the circumstances, and so he adds no explanation. A forger would not introduce difficulties; the author did not then see any difficulty in the case. Nebuchadnezzar is called "king" ( Daniel 1:1 ), by anticipation. Before he left Judea, he became actual king by the death of his father, and the Jews always called him "king," as commander of the invading army.
dreams--It is significant that not to Daniel, but to the then world ruler, Nebuchadnezzar, the dream is vouchsafed. It was from the first of its representatives who had conquered the theocracy, that the world power was to learn its doom, as about to be in its turn subdued, and for ever by the kingdom of God. As this vision opens, so that in the seventh chapter developing the same truth more fully, closes the first part. Nebuchadnezzar, as vicegerent of God ( Daniel 2:37 ; compare Jeremiah 25:9 , Ezekiel 28:12-15 , Isaiah 44:28 , 45:1 , Romans 13:1 ), is honored with the revelation in the form of a dream, the appropriate form to one outside the kingdom of God. So in the cases of Abimelech, Pharaoh, &c. ( Genesis 20:3 , 41:1-7 ), especially as the heathen attached such importance to dreams. Still it is not he, but an Israelite, who interprets it. Heathendom is passive, Israel active, in divine things, so that the glory redounds to "the God of heaven."
2. Chaldeans--here, a certain order of priest-magicians, who wore a peculiar dress, like that seen on the gods and deified men in the Assyrian sculptures. Probably they belonged exclusively to the Chaldeans, the original tribe of the Babylonian nation, just as the Magians were properly Medes.
3. troubled to know the dream--He awoke in alarm, remembering that something solemn had been presented to him in a dream, without being able to recall the form in which it had clothed itself. His thoughts on the unprecedented greatness to which his power had attained ( Daniel 2:29 ) made him anxious to know what the issue of all this should be. God meets this wish in the way most calculated to impress him.
4. Here begins the Chaldee portion of Daniel, which continues to the end of the seventh chapter. In it the course, character, and crisis of the Gentile power are treated; whereas, in the other parts, which are in Hebrew, the things treated apply more particularly to the Jews and Jerusalem.
Syriac--the Aramean Chaldee, the vernacular tongue of the king and his court; the prophet, by mentioning it here, hints at the reason of his own adoption of it from this point.
live for ever--a formula in addressing kings, like our "Long live the king!" Compare 1 Kings 1:31 .
5. The thing--that is, The dream, "is gone from me." GESENIUS translates, "The decree is gone forth from me," irrevocable (compare Isaiah 45:23 ); namely, that you shall be executed, if you do not tell both the dream and the interpretation. English Version is simpler, which supposes the king himself to have forgotten the dream. Pretenders to supernatural knowledge often bring on themselves their own punishment.
cut in pieces--( 1 Samuel 15:33 ).
houses . . . dunghill--rather, "a morass heap." The Babylonian houses were built of sun-dried bricks; when demolished, the rain dissolves the whole into a mass of mire, in the wet land, near the river [STUART]. As to the consistency of this cruel threat with Nebuchadnezzar's character, see Daniel 4:17 , "basest of men"; Jeremiah 39:5 Jeremiah 39:6 , 52:9-11 .
6. rewards--literally, "presents poured out in lavish profusion."
8. gain . . . time--literally, "buy." Compare Ephesians 5:16 , Colossians 4:5 , where the sense is somewhat different.
9. one decree--There can be no second one reversing the first ( Esther 4:11 ).
till the time be changed--till a new state of things arrive, either by my ceasing to trouble myself about the dream, or by a change of government (which perhaps the agitation caused by the dream made Nebuchadnezzar to forebode, and so to suspect the Chaldeans of plotting).
tell . . . dream, and I shall know . . . ye can show . . . interpretation--If ye cannot tell the past, a dream actually presented to me, how can ye know, and show, the future events prefigured in it?
10. There is not a man . . . that can show--God makes the heathen out of their own mouth, condemn their impotent pretensions to supernatural knowledge, in order to bring out in brighter contrast His power to reveal secrets to His servants, though but "men upon the earth" (compare Daniel 2:22 Daniel 2:23 ).
therefore, &c.--that is, If such things could be done by men, other absolute princes would have required them from their magicians; as they have not, it is proof such things cannot be done and cannot be reasonably asked from us.
11. gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh--answering to "no man upon the earth"; for there were, in their belief, "men in heaven," namely, men deified; for example, Nimrod. The supreme gods are referred to here, who alone, in the Chaldean view, could solve the difficulty, but who do not communicate with men. The inferior gods, intermediate between men and the supreme gods, are unable to solve it. Contrast with this heathen idea of the utter severance of God from man, John 1:14 , "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us"; Daniel was in this case made His representative.
12, 13. Daniel and his companions do not seem to have been actually numbered among the Magi or Chaldeans, and so were not summoned before the king. Providence ordered it so that all mere human wisdom should be shown vain before His divine power, through His servant, was put forth. Daniel 2:24 shows that the decree for slaying the wise men had not been actually executed when Daniel interposed.
14. captain of the king's guard--commanding the executioners (Margin; and Genesis 37:36 , Margin).
15. Why is the decree so hasty--Why were not all of us consulted before the decree for the execution of all was issued?
the thing--the agitation of the king as to his dream, and his abortive consultation of the Chaldeans. It is plain from this that Daniel was till now ignorant of the whole matter.
16. Daniel went in--perhaps not in person, but by the mediation of some courtier who had access to the king. His first direct interview seems to have been Daniel 2:25 [BARNES].
time--The king granted "time" to Daniel, though he would not do so to the Chaldeans because they betrayed their lying purpose by requiring him to tell the dream, which Daniel did not. Providence doubtless influenced his mind, already favorable ( Daniel 1:19 Daniel 1:20 ), to show special favor to Daniel.
17. Here appears the reason why Daniel sought "time" ( Daniel 2:16 ), namely he wished to engage his friends to join him in prayer to God to reveal the dream to him.
18. An illustration of the power of united prayer ( Matthew 18:19 ). The same instrumentality rescued Peter from his peril ( Acts 12:5-12 ).
19. revealed . . . in . . . night vision--( Job 33:15 Job 33:16 ).
20. answered--responded to God's goodness by praises.
name of God--God in His revelation of Himself by acts of love, "wisdom, and might" ( Jeremiah 32:19 ).
21. changeth . . . times . . . seasons--"He herein gives a general preparatory intimation, that the dream of Nebuchadnezzar is concerning the changes and successions of kingdoms" [JEROME]. The "times" are the phases and periods of duration of empires (compare Daniel 7:25 , 1 Chronicles 12:32 , 29:30 ); the "seasons" the fitting times for their culmination, decline, and fall ( Ecclesiastes 3:1 , Acts 1:7 , 1 Thessalonians 5:1 ). The vicissitudes of states, with their times and seasons. are not regulated by chance or fate, as the heathen thought, but by God.
removed kings--( Job 12:18 , Psalms 75:6 Psalms 75:7 , Jeremiah 27:5 ; compare 1 Samuel 2:7 1 Samuel 2:8 ).
giveth wisdom--( 1 Kings 3:9-12 1:5 ).
22. revealeth--( Job 12:22 ). So spiritually ( Ephesians 1:17 Ephesians 1:18 ).
knoweth what is in . . . darkness--( Psalms 139:11 Psalms 139:12 , Hebrews 4:13 ).
light . . . him--( 1:17 , 1 John 1:4 ). Apocalypse (or "revelation") signifies a divine, prophecy a human, activity. Compare 1 Corinthians 14:6 , where the two are distinguished. The prophet is connected with the outer world, addressing to the congregation the words with which the Spirit of God supplies him; he speaks in the Spirit, but the apocalyptic seer is in the Spirit in his whole person ( Revelation 1:10 , 4:2 ). The form of the apocalyptic revelation (the very term meaning that the veil that hides the invisible world is taken off) is subjectively either the dream, or, higher, the vision. The interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream was a preparatory education to Daniel himself. By gradual steps, each revelation preparing him for the succeeding one, God fitted him for disclosures becoming more and more special. In the second and fourth chapters he is but an interpreter of Nebuchadnezzar's dreams; then he has a dream himself, but it is only a vision in a dream of the night ( Daniel 7:1 Daniel 7:2 ); then follows a vision in a waking state ( Daniel 8:1-3 ); lastly, in the two final revelations ( Daniel 9:20 , Daniel 10:4 Daniel 10:5 ) the ecstatic state is no longer needed. The progression in the form answers to the progression in the contents of his prophecy; at first general outlines, and these afterwards filled up with minute chronological and historical details, such as are not found in the Revelation of John, though, as became the New Testament, the form of revelation is the highest, namely, clear waking visions [AUBERLEN].
23. thee . . . thee--He ascribes all the glory to God.
God of my fathers--Thou hast shown Thyself the same God of grace to me, a captive exile, as Thou didst to Israel of old and this on account of the covenant made with our "fathers" ( Luke 1:54 Luke 1:55 ; compare Psalms 106:45 ).
given me wisdom and might--Thou being the fountain of both; referring to Daniel 2:20 . Whatever wise ability I have to stay the execution of the king's cruel decree, is Thy gift.
me . . . we . . . us--The revelation was given to Daniel, as "me" implies; yet with just modesty he joins his friends with him; because it was to their joint prayers, and not to his individually. that he owed the revelation from God.
known . . . the king's matter--the very words in which the Chaldeans had denied the possibility of any man on earth telling the dream ("not a man upon the earth can show the king's matter," Daniel 2:10 ). Impostors are compelled by the God of truth to eat up their own words.
24. Therefore--because of having received the divine communication.
bring me in before the king--implying that. he had not previously
25. I have found a man--Like all courtiers, in announcing agreeable tidings, he ascribes the merit of the discovery to himself [JEROME]. So far from it being a discrepancy, that he says nothing of the previous understanding between him and Daniel, or of Daniel's application to the king ( Daniel 2:15 Daniel 2:16 ), it is just what we should expect. Arioch would not dare to tell an absolute despot that he had stayed the execution of his sanguinary decree, on his own responsibility; but would, in the first instance, secretly stay it until Daniel had got, by application from the king, the time required, without Arioch seeming to know of Daniel's application as the cause of the respite; then, when Daniel had received the revelation, Arioch would in trembling haste bring him in, as if then for the first time he had "found" him. The very difficulty when cleared up is a proof of genuineness, as it never would be introduced by a forger.
27. cannot--Daniel, being learned in all the lore of the Chaldeans ( Daniel 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.
28. God--in contrast to "the wise men," &c. ( Daniel 2:27 ).
revealeth secrets--( Amos 3:7 , 4:13 ). Compare Genesis 41:45 , Zaphnath-paaneah, "revealer of secrets," the title given to Joseph.
the latter days--literally, "in the after days" ( Daniel 2:29 ); "hereafter" ( Genesis 49:1 ):It refers to the whole future, including the Messianic days, which is the final dispensation ( Isaiah 2:2 ).
visions of thy head--conceptions formed in the brain.
29. God met with a revelation Nebuchadnezzar, who had been meditating on the future destiny of his vast empire.
30. not . . . for any wisdom that I have--not on account of any previous wisdom which I may have manifested ( Daniel 1:17 Daniel 1:20 ). The specially-favored servants of God in all ages disclaim merit in themselves and ascribe all to the grace and power of God ( Genesis 41:16 , Acts 3:12 ). The "as for me," disclaiming extraordinary merit, contrasts elegantly with "as for thee," whereby Daniel courteously, but without flattery, implies, that God honored Nebuchadnezzar, as His vicegerent over the world kingdoms, with a revelation on the subject uppermost in his thoughts, the ultimate destinies of those kingdoms.
for their sakes that shall make known, &c.--a Chaldee idiom for, "to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king."
the thoughts of thy heart--thy subject of thought before falling asleep. Or, perhaps the probation of Nebuchadnezzar's character through this revelation may be the meaning intended (compare 2 Chronicles 32:31 , Luke 2:35 ).
31. The world power in its totality appears as a colossal human form: Babylon the head of gold, Medo-Persia the breast and two arms of silver, Græco-Macedonia the belly and two thighs of brass, and Rome, with its Germano-Slavonic offshoots, the legs of iron and feet of iron and clay, the fourth still existing. Those kingdoms only are mentioned which stand in some relation to the kingdom of God; of these none is left out; the final establishment of that kingdom is the aim of His moral government of the world. The colossus of metal stands on weak feet, of clay. All man's glory is as ephemeral and worthless as chaff (compare 1 Peter 1:24 ). But the kingdom of God, small and unheeded as a "stone" on the ground is compact in its homogeneous unity; whereas the world power, in its heterogeneous constituents successively supplanting one another, contains the elements of decay. The relation of the stone to the mountain is that of the kingdom of the cross ( Matthew 16:23 , Luke 24:26 ) to the kingdom of glory, the latter beginning, and the former ending when the kingdom of God breaks in pieces the kingdoms of the world ( Revelation 11:15 ). Christ's contrast between the two kingdoms refers to this passage.
a great image--literally, "one image that was great." Though the kingdoms were different, it was essentially one and the same world power under different phases, just as the image was one, though the parts were of different metals.
32. On ancient coins states are often represented by human figures. The head and higher parts signify the earlier times; the lower, the later times. The metals become successively baser and baser, implying the growing degeneracy from worse to worse. Hesiod, two hundred years before Daniel, had compared the four ages to the four metals in the same order; the idea is sanctioned here by Holy Writ. It was perhaps one of those fragments of revelation among the heathen derived from the tradition as to the fall of man. The metals lessen in specific gravity, as they downwards; silver is not so heavy as gold, brass not so heavy as silver, and iron not so heavy as brass, the weight thus being arranged in the reverse of stability [TREGELLES]. Nebuchadnezzar derived his authority from God, not from man, nor as responsible to man. But the Persian king was so far dependent on others that he could not deliver Daniel from the princes ( Daniel 6:14 Daniel 6:15 ); contrast Daniel 5:18 Daniel 5:19 , as to Nebuchadnezzar's power from God, whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive" (compare Ezra 7:14 , Esther 1:13-16 ). Græco-Macedonia betrays its deterioration in its divisions, not united as Babylon and Persia. Iron is stronger than brass, but inferior in other respects; so Rome hardy and strong to tread down the nations, but less kingly and showing its chief deterioration in its last state. Each successive kingdom incorporates its predecessor (compare Daniel 5:28 ). Power that in Nebuchadnezzar's hands was a God-derived ( Daniel 2:37 Daniel 2:38 ) autocracy, in the Persian king's was a rule resting on his nobility of person and birth, the nobles being his equals in rank, but not in office; in Greece, an aristocracy not of birth, but individual influence, in Rome, lowest of all, dependent entirely on popular choice, the emperor being appointed by popular military election.
33. As the two arms of silver denote the kings of the Medes and Persians [JOSEPHUS]; and the two thighs of brass the Seleucidæ of Syria and Lagidæ of Egypt, the two leading sections into which Græco-Macedonia parted, so the two legs of iron signify the two Roman consuls [NEWTON]. The clay, in Daniel 2:41 , "potter's clay," Daniel 2:43 , "miry clay," means "earthenware," hard but brittle (compare Psalms 2:9 , Revelation 2:27 , where the same image is used of the same event); the feet are stable while bearing only direct pressure, but easily "broken" to pieces by a blow ( Daniel 2:34 ), the iron intermixed not retarding, but hastening, such a result.
34. stone--Messiah and His kingdom ( Genesis 49:24 , Psalms 118:22 , Isaiah 28:16 ). In its relations to Israel, it is a "stone of stumbling" ( Isaiah 8:14 , Acts 4:11 , 1 Peter 2:7 1 Peter 2:8 ) on which both houses of Israel are broken, not destroyed ( Matthew 21:32 ). In its relation to the Church, the same stone which destroys the image is the foundation of the Church ( Ephesians 2:20 ). In its relation to the Gentile world power, the stone is its destroyer ( Daniel 2:35 Daniel 2:44 ; compare Zechariah 12:3 ). Christ saith ( Matthew 21:44 , referring to Isaiah 8:14 Isaiah 8:15 ), "Whosoever shall fall on this stone (that is, stumble, and be offended, at Him, as the Jews were, from whom, therefore, He says, 'The kingdom shall be taken') shall be broken; but (referring to Daniel 2:34 Daniel 2:35 ) on whomsoever it shall fall (referring to the world power which had been the instrument of breaking the Jews), it will (not merely break, but) grind him to powder" ( 1 Corinthians 15:24 ). The falling of the stone of the feet of the image cannot refer to Christ at His first advent, for the fourth kingdom was not then as yet divided--no toes were in
cut out--namely, from "the mountain" ( Daniel 2:45 ); namely, Mount Zion ( Isaiah 2:2 ), and antitypically, the heavenly mount of the Father's glory, from whom Christ came.
without hands--explained in Daniel 2:44 , "The God of heaven shall set up a kingdom," as contrasted with the image which was made with hands of man. Messiah not created by human agency, but conceived by the Holy Ghost ( Matthew 1:20 , Luke 1:35 ; compare Zechariah 4:6 , 14:58 , Hebrews 9:11 Hebrews 9:24 ). So "not made with hands," that is, heavenly, 2 Corinthians 5:1 ; spiritual, Colossians 2:11 . The world kingdoms were reared by human ambition: but this is the "kingdom of heaven"; "not of this world" ( John 18:36 ). As the fourth kingdom, or Rome, was represented in a twofold state, first strong, with legs of iron, then weak, with toes part of iron, part of clay; so this fifth kingdom, that of Christ, is seen conversely, first insignificant as a "stone," then as a "mountain" filling the whole earth. The ten toes are the ten lesser kingdoms into which the Roman kingdom was finally to be divided; this tenfold division here hinted at is not specified in detail till the seventh chapter. The fourth empire originally was bounded in Europe pretty nearly by the line of the Rhine and Danube; in Asia by the Euphrates. In Africa it possessed Egypt and the north coasts; South Britain and Dacia were afterwards added but were ultimately resigned. The ten kingdoms do not arise until a deterioration (by mixing clay with the iron) has taken place; they are in existence when Christ comes in glory, and then are broken in pieces. The ten have been sought for in the invading hosts of the fifth and sixth century. But though many provinces were then severed from Rome as independent kingdoms, the dignity of emperor still continued, and the imperial power was exercised over Rome itself for two centuries. So the tenfold divisions cannot be looked for before A.D. 731. But the East is not to be excluded, five toes being on each foot. Thus no point of time before the overthrow of the empire at the taking of Constantinople by the Turks (A.D. 1453) can be assigned for the division. It seems, therefore, that the definite ten will be the ultimate development of the Roman empire just before the rise of Antichrist, who shall overthrow three of the kings, and, after three and a half years, he himself be overthrown by Christ in person. Some of the ten kingdoms will, doubtless, be the same as some past and present divisions of the old Roman empire, which accounts for the continuity of the connection between the toes and legs, a gap of centuries not being interposed, as is objected by opponents of the futurist theory. The lists of the ten made by the latter differ from one another; and they are set aside by the fact that they include countries which were never Roman, and exclude one whole section of the empire, namely, the East [TREGELLES].
upon his feet--the last state of the Roman empire. Not "upon his legs." Compare "in the days of these kings"
35. broken . . . together--excluding a contemporaneous existence of the kingdom of the world and the kingdom of God (in its manifested, as distinguished from its spiritual, phase). The latter is not gradually to wear away the former, but to destroy it at once, and utterly ( 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 , 2:8 ). However, the Hebrew may be translated, "in one discriminate mass."
chaff--image of the ungodly, as they shall be dealt with in the judgment ( Psalms 1:4 Psalms 1:5 , Matthew 3:12 ).
summer threshing-floors--Grain was winnowed in the East on an elevated space in the open air, by throwing the grain into the air with a shovel, so that the wind might clear away the chaff.
no place . . . found for them--( Revelation 20:11 ; compare Psalms 37:10 Psalms 37:36 , 103:16 ).
became . . . mountain--cut out of the mountain ( Daniel 2:45 ) originally, it ends in becoming a mountain. So the kingdom of God, coming from heaven originally, ends in heaven being established on earth ( Revelation 21:1-3 ).
filled . . . earth--( Isaiah 11:9 , Habakkuk 2:14 ). It is to do so in connection with Jerusalem as the mother Church ( Psalms 80:9 , Isaiah 2:2 Isaiah 2:3 ).
36. we--Daniel and his three friends.
37. Thou . . . art a king of kings--The committal of power in fullest plenitude belongs to Nebuchadnezzar personally, as having made Babylon the mighty empire it was. In twenty-three years after him the empire was ended: with him its greatness is identified ( Daniel 4:30 ), his successors having done nothing notable. Not that he actually ruled every part of the globe, but that God granted him illimitable dominion in whatever direction his ambition led him, Egypt, Nineveh, Arabia, Syria, Tyre, and its Phoenician colonies ( Jeremiah 27:5-8 ). Compare as to Cyrus, Ezra 1:2 .
38. men . . . beasts . . . fowls--the dominion originally designed for man ( Genesis 1:28 , Genesis 2:19 Genesis 2:20 ), forfeited by sin; temporarily delegated to Nebuchadnezzar and the world powers; but, as they abuse the trust for self, instead of for God, to be taken from them by the Son of man, who will exercise it for God, restoring in His person to man the lost inheritance ( Psalms 8:4-6 ).
Thou art . . . head of gold--alluding to the riches of Babylon, hence called "the golden city" ( Isaiah 14:4 , Jeremiah 51:7 , Revelation 18:16 ).
39. That Medo-Persia is the second kingdom appears from Daniel 5:28 and Daniel 8:20 . Compare 2 Chronicles 36:20 , Isaiah 21:2 .
inferior--"The kings of Persia were the worst race of men that ever governed an empire" [PRIDEAUX]. Politically (which is the main point of view here) the power of the central government in which the nobles shared with the king, being weakened by the growing independence of the provinces, was inferior to that of Nebuchadnezzar, whose sole word was law throughout his empire.
brass--The Greeks (the third empire, Daniel 8:21 , 10:20 , 11:2-4 ) were celebrated for the brazen armor of their warriors. JEROME fancifully thinks that the brass, as being a clear-sounding metal, refers to the eloquence for which Greece was famed. The "belly," in Daniel 2:32 , may refer to the drunkenness of Alexander and the luxury of the Ptolemies [TIRINUS].
over all the earth--Alexander commanded that he should be called "king of all the world" [JUSTIN, 12. sec. 16.9; ARRIAN, Campaigns of Alexander, 7. sec. 15]. The four successors (diadochi) who divided Alexander's dominions at his death, of whom the Seleucidæ in Syria and the Lagidæ in Egypt were chief, held the same empire.
40. iron--This vision sets forth the character of the Roman power, rather than its territorial extent [TREGELLES].
breaketh in pieces--So, in righteous retribution, itself will at last be broken in pieces ( Daniel 2:44 ) by the kingdom of God ( Revelation 13:10 ).
41-43. feet . . . toes . . . part . . . clay . . . iron--explained presently, "the kingdom shall be partly strong, partly broken" (rather, "brittle," as earthenware); and Daniel 2:43 , "they shall mingle . . . with the seed of men," that is, there will be power (in its deteriorated form, iron) mixed up with that which is wholly of man, and therefore brittle; power in the hands of the people having no internal stability, though something is left of the strength of the iron [TREGELLES]. NEWTON, who understands the Roman empire to be parted into the ten kingdoms already (whereas TREGELLES makes them future), explains the "clay" mixture as the blending of barbarous nations with Rome by intermarriages and alliances, in which there was no stable amalgamation, though the ten kingdoms retained much of Rome's strength. The "mingling with the seed of men" ( Daniel 2:44 ) seems to refer to Genesis 6:2 , where the marriages of the seed of godly Seth with the daughters of ungodly Cain are described in similar words. The reference, therefore, seems to be to the blending of the Christianized Roman empire with the pagan nations, a deterioration being the result. Efforts have been often made to reunite the parts into one great empire, as by Charlemagne and Napoleon, but in vain. Christ alone shall effect that.
44. in the days of these kings--in the days of these kingdoms, that is, of the last of the four. So Christianity was set up when Rome had become mistress of Judea and the world ( Luke 2:1 , &c.) [NEWTON]. Rather, "in the days of these kings," answers to "upon his feet" ( Daniel 2:34 ); that is, the ten toes ( Daniel 2:42 ), or ten kings, the final state of the Roman empire. For "these kings" cannot mean the four successional monarchies, as they do not coexist as the holders of power; if the fourth had been meant, the singular, not the plural, would be used. The falling of the stone on the image must mean, destroying judgment on the fourth Gentile power, not gradual evangelization of it by grace; and the destroying judgment cannot be dealt by Christians, for they are taught to submit to the powers that be, so that it must be dealt by Christ Himself at His coming again. We live under the divisions of the Roman empire which began fourteen hundred years ago, and which at the time of His coming shall be definitely ten. All that had failed in the hand of man shall then pass away, and that which is kept in His own hand shall be introduced. Thus the second chapter is the alphabet of the subsequent prophetic statements in Daniel [TREGELLES].
God of heaven . . . kingdom--hence the phrase, "the kingdom of heaven" ( Matthew 3:2 ).
not . . . left to other people--as the Chaldees had been forced to leave their kingdom to the Medo-Persians, and these to the Greeks, and these to the Romans ( Micah 4:7 , Luke 1:32 Luke 1:33 ).
break . . . all--( Isaiah 60:12 , 1 Corinthians 15:24 ).
46. fell upon . . . face, and worshipped Daniel--worshipping God in the person of Daniel. Symbolical of the future prostration of the world power before Messiah and His kingdom ( Philippians 2:10 ). As other servants of God refused such honors ( Acts 10:25 Acts 10:26 , 14:13-15 , Revelation 22:8 Revelation 22:9 ) would not taste defiled food, nor give up prayer to God at the cost of his life ( Daniel 6:7 Daniel 6:10 ), it seems likely that Daniel rejected the proffered divine honors. The word "answered" ( Daniel 2:47 ) implies that Daniel had objected to these honors; and in compliance with his objection, "the king answered, Of a truth, your God is a God of gods." Daniel had disclaimed all personal merit in Daniel 2:30 , giving God all the glory (compare Daniel 2:45 ).
commanded . . . sweet odours--divine honors ( Ezra 6:10 ). It is not said his command was executed.
47. Lord of kings--The world power shall at last have to acknowledge this ( Revelation 17:14 , 19:16 ); even as Nebuchadnezzar, who had been the God-appointed "king of kings" ( Daniel 2:37 ), but who had abused the trust, is constrained by God's servant to acknowledge that God is the true "Lord of kings."
48. One reason for Nebuchadnezzar having been vouchsafed such a dream is here seen; namely, that Daniel might be promoted, and the captive people of God be comforted: the independent state of the captives during the exile and the alleviation of its hardships, were much due to Daniel.
49. Daniel requested--Contrast this honorable remembrance of his humble friends in his elevation with the spirit of the children of the world in the chief butler's case ( Genesis 40:23 , Ecclesiastes 9:15 Ecclesiastes 9:16 , Amos 6:6 ).
in the gate--the place of holding courts of justice and levees in the East ( Esther 2:19 , Job 29:7 ). So "the Sublime Porte," or "Gate," denotes the sultan's government, his counsels being formerly held in the entrance of his palace. Daniel was a chief counsellor of the king, and president over the governors of the different orders into which the Magi were divided.


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