35<\/strong>. The absolute dissipation of the image. The feet being broken, the entire image fell to pieces; and the fragments were dispersed by the wind. A fall would not naturally break masses of metal into fragments small enough to be scattered by the wind; but in a dream physical impossibilities or improbabilities occasion no difficulty.<\/p>\n threshingfloors<\/em> ] which were generally on exposed or elevated spots, where the chaff might readily be cleared away by the wind. Cf. Hos 13:3<\/span>, Isa 41:16<\/span>, Psa 1:4<\/span>; and with no place<\/em>, &c., Rev 20:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth<\/em> ] another figure, the incongruity of which would not be perceived in a dream, implying the irresistible expansive force, and also the ultimate universality, of the kingdom of God ( Dan 2:44<\/em><\/span>).<\/p>\n Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor – <\/B>The word rendered together (<\/span> kachadah<\/I>) our translators would seem to have understood as referring to time; to its being done simultaneously. The more literal interpretation, however, is, as one; that is, they were beaten small as one, referring to identity of condition. They were all reduced to one indiscriminate mass; to such a mass that the original materials could no longer be distinguished, and would all be blown away together. The literal meaning of the word (<\/span> chad<\/I> used and <\/span> chadah<\/I>) is, one, or first. Ezr 4:8<\/span>, wrote a letter; Ezr 5:13<\/span>, in the first year of Cyrus; Ezr 6:2<\/span>, a roll; Dan 2:9<\/span>; there is but one decree for you; Dan 3:19<\/span>, heat the furnace one seven times hotter, etc. United with the preposition (<\/span> k<\/I>) it means as one, like the Hebrew <\/span> k<\/I>e<\/I><\/SUP>‘echad<\/I>) – Ecc 11:6<\/span>; 2Ch 5:13<\/span>; Ezr 2:64<\/span>; Ezr 3:9<\/span>; Isa 65:25<\/span>. The phrase chaff of the summer threshing-floors refers to the mode of winnowing grain in the East. This was done in the open air, usually on an elevated place, by throwing the grain, when thrashed, into the air with a shovel, and the wind thus drove away the chaff. Such chaff, therefore, naturally became an emblem of anything that was light, and that would be easily dissipated. See the notes at Isa 30:24<\/span>; Mat 3:12<\/span>.<\/P> And the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them – <\/B>They were entirely dissipated like chaff. As that seems to have no longer any place, but is carried we know not where, so the figure here would denote an entire annihilation of the power to which it refers.<\/P> And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth – <\/B>The vision which was before the mind of the king as here represented was, that the stone which was cut out of the mountain was at first small, and that while he contemplated it, it swelled to larger dimensions, until it became an immense mountain – a mountain that filled the whole land. It was this which, perhaps more than anything else, excited his wonder, that a stone, at first of so small dimensions, should of itself so increase as to surpass the size of the mountain from which it was cut, until it occupied every place in view. Everything about it was so remarkable and unusual, that it was no wonder that he could not explain it. We have now gone over a description of the literal vision as it appeared to the mind of the monarch. Had it been left here, it is clear that it would have been of difficult interpretation, and possibly the true explanation might never have been suggested. We have, however, an exposition by Daniel, which leaves no doubt as to its design, and which was intended to carry the mind forward into some of the most important and remarkable events of history. A portion of his statement has been fulfilled; a part remains still unaccomplished, and a careful exposition of his account of the meaning of the vision will lead our thoughts to some of the most important historical events which have occurred in introducing the Christian dispensation, and to events still more important in the statement of what is yet to come.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 35. The stone – became a great mountain<\/B><\/I>] There is the kingdom eben<\/I>, of the stone<\/I>, and the kingdom of the mountain. See at the end at the chapter. See Clarke on Da 2:49<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n 35. broken . . . together<\/B>excludinga contemporaneous existence of the kingdom of the world and thekingdom of God (in its manifested,<\/I> as distinguished from itsspiritual,<\/I> phase). The latter is not gradually to wear awaythe former, but to destroy it at once, and utterly (2Th 1:7-10<\/span>;2Th 2:8<\/span>). However, the Hebrew<\/I>may be translated, “in one discriminate mass.” <\/P> chaff<\/B>image of theungodly, as they shall be dealt with in the judgment (Psa 1:4<\/span>;Psa 1:5<\/span>; Mat 3:12<\/span>).<\/P> summer threshing-floors<\/B>Grainwas winnowed in the East on an elevated space in the open air, bythrowing the grain into the air with a shovel, so that the wind mightclear away the chaff. <\/P> no place . . . found forthem<\/B> (Re 20:11<\/span>; comparePsa 37:10<\/span>; Psa 37:36<\/span>;Psa 103:16<\/span>). <\/P> became . . . mountain<\/B>cutout of the mountain (Da 2:45<\/span>)originally, it ends in becoming a mountain.<\/I> So the kingdom ofGod, coming from heaven originally, ends in heaven being establishedon earth (Re 21:1-3<\/span>). <\/P> filled . . . earth<\/B>(Isa 11:9<\/span>; Hab 2:14<\/span>).It is to do so in connection with Jerusalem as the mother Church(Psa 80:9<\/span>; Isa 2:2<\/span>;Isa 2:3<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together<\/strong>,…. The feet, the basis of the image, being broken, the whole body of it fell, and with its own weight was broken to pieces; an emblem this of the utter dissolution of all the monarchies and kingdoms of the earth, signified by these several metals:<\/p>\n and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors<\/strong>; which is exceeding small and light:<\/p>\n and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them<\/strong>; for the several metals, and the monarchies signified by them, which were no more: the allusion is to the manner of winnowing corn in the eastern countries upon mountains, when the chaff was carried away by the wind, and seen no more:<\/p>\n and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the earth<\/strong>; Christ’s kingdom, from small beginnings, has increased, and will more and more, until the whole earth is subject to it: this began to have its accomplishment in the first times of the Gospel, especially when the Roman empire, as Pagan, was destroyed by Constantine, and the kingdom of Christ was set up in it; and it received a further accomplishment at the time of the Reformation, when Rome Papal had a deadly blow given it, and the Gospel of Christ was spread in several nations and kingdoms; but it will receive its full accomplishment when both the eastern and western antichrists shall be destroyed, and the kingdoms of this world shall become the Lord’s and his Christ’s, Re 11:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n (35) Like the chaff.<\/strong>This language recalls Psa. 1:4<\/span>; Psa. 2:9<\/span>. It is emblematic of Divine judgments, as Isa. 41:15-16<\/span>; Jer. 51:33<\/span>, &c. Comp. with this the description of the Judgment, Dan. 7:9-14<\/span>. Observe, however, that the stone did not crush the head, breast, or loins of the body. These became fragments by falling when the feet were broken. (Comp. Dan. 7:12<\/span>.)<\/p>\n 35<\/strong>. <\/strong> The little rock out of the mountain stirred by the invisible elemental forces hidden in the heart of nature is unseen, unnoticed, and absurdly unworthy of notice, as it begins to roll toward the vast and glorious image. But though coming silently and unobserved it is moved by a power strong and irresistible as that of gravitation itself, and striking the point of weakness inevitable in every human creation, the monster totters, the iron legs crush down upon the feet of clay, and the proud image lies a hideous ruin, crushed and pulverized into dust, which the wind blows away like chaff (compare Job 21:18<\/span>; Psa 1:4<\/span>; Psa 35:5<\/span>), while the stone, as if having life in itself, grows, enlarges at the base and towers in height, till like a mighty mountain it fills the whole horizon of the sleeper’s sight. (Compare Expositor, <\/em> 9:448.)<\/p>\n Dan 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.<\/p>\n Ver. 35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, &c.<\/strong> ] Those four mighty monarchies had their times and their turns – their ruin as well as their rise. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain.<\/strong> ] The kingdom of Christ, little at first, increaseth wonderfully. Nec minor ab exordio, nec maior incrementis ulla,<\/em> said Eutropius, a<\/em> concerning Rome; may we better say concerning the Church, which shall stand when all other powers shall quite vanish and disappear for ever, seem they for present never so splendid and solid. Sic transit gloria mundi.<\/em> So transitory is the glory of the world. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Hist., <\/em> lib. i.<\/p>\n iron, the clay, &c. Note the order differently given to distinguish the five (not the four), answering to the five parts of the image in Dan 2:32, and the five kingdoms, verses: <\/p>\n Dan 2:32, Dan 2:33.Dan 2:35.Dan 2:45. <\/p>\n gold,iron,iron,<\/p>\n silver,clay, brass, <\/p>\n brass,brass, clay, <\/p>\n iron,silver, silver, <\/p>\n iron and clay,gold,gold. <\/p>\n together. As united at the time of the end (forming the sixth power), the kingdom of the “Beast” (Rev 13). <\/p>\n wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. <\/p>\n filled the whole earth. Thus marking the seventh kingdom, that of Messiah. <\/p>\n mountain <\/p>\n A mountain is one of the bibical symbols of a kingdom. (See Scofield “Isa 2:2”). <\/p>\n like: Psa 1:4, Psa 1:5, Isa 17:13, Isa 17:14, Isa 41:15, Isa 41:16, Hos 13:3, Mic 4:13 <\/p>\n no place: Job 6:17, Psa 37:10, Psa 37:36, Psa 103:16, Rev 12:8, Rev 20:11 <\/p>\n became: Isa 2:2, Isa 2:3, Mic 4:1, Mic 4:2 <\/p>\n and filled: Psa 22:27, Psa 46:9, Psa 66:4, Psa 67:1, Psa 67:2, Psa 72:16-19, Psa 80:9, Psa 80:10, Psa 86:9, Isa 11:9, Zec 14:8, Zec 14:9, 1Co 15:25, Rev 11:15, Rev 20:2, Rev 20:3 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 24:24 – and he also 2Sa 3:1 – David waxed 2Sa 22:43 – as small Ezr 3:12 – when the foundation Job 34:24 – break Psa 68:1 – be scattered Psa 72:4 – the oppressor Isa 9:7 – the increase Isa 60:12 – General Isa 60:22 – little Jer 46:28 – make Eze 17:22 – upon Eze 32:28 – General Eze 40:2 – a very Eze 47:5 – waters to swim in Dan 2:45 – thou sawest Dan 7:9 – till Dan 7:14 – an everlasting Dan 8:25 – but Dan 11:45 – he shall come Oba 1:21 – and the Mic 2:13 – breaker Hag 2:22 – overthrow Zec 4:7 – O great Zec 4:10 – despised Zec 12:3 – a burdensome Zec 12:6 – they Zec 14:3 – General Mat 13:32 – the least Mat 21:44 – but Mar 4:31 – is less than Luk 13:19 – and it Luk 20:18 – shall fall Joh 3:30 – must increase Act 4:17 – that it Act 5:24 – this Act 26:6 – the promise 1Co 1:28 – to bring 1Co 15:28 – all things 1Pe 1:11 – the glory<\/p>\n THE STONE THAT GREW<\/p>\n The stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.<\/p>\n Dan 2:35<\/p>\n This revelation to Daniel was not merely a single gleam of heavenly consolation, but the whole plan of Gods purposes in the worlds history for centuries upon centuries. Empire after empire must rise and set:Babylon, Persia, Greeceand after Greece, an empire quite unlike any of the three; it is Gods purpose for the powers of this world to have their day, and they are intended by God the Ruler to be allowed to try what they can do towards setting up an abiding kingdom. Scope and verge enough shall they be allowed, that they may prove their inability to stand. Unlike the Babel of the elder time, which God confounded before it grew to its intended height, these shall be allowed their trial, and shall fail. The first three shall grow up to what height they can, and then shall fail of themselves; and, failing, shall demonstrate their weakness. For, all that shall happen shall be that one shall devour the other; until when the fourth empire shall have risen, thenupon it shall fall a Stone; a stone cut from a mountain, cut without hands; and that Stone shall grow, and grow, shattering the last of the worlds Empires, until at last it shall fill the whole earth, and there shall be no room left in the whole world for any more earthly kingdom at all. Then shall come the end. And the Ancient of Days shall sit upon His Throne, and allall who had ever livedshall be gathered to His Judgment.<\/p>\n Well, the Jews returned to Jerusalem. The Temple was rebuilt. The worship of God was renewed. Yet, observe, that the kingdom in its old shape was never restored. But Babylon fell; Persia rose and fell; Greece rose and fell. Then Rome, imperial Rome, grew slowly; and in the reign of the Emperor Augustus, just when the great Roman Empire was at its height of grandeur, its growth completed, peace established, the Image fully formed, thenwhat? Oh! the Stone fell. The Stone cut without hands, according to the word spoken by Daniel, did fall upon that Image. Christ was born. And from that hour that great Roman power began, slowly but surely, to wane and to decline.<\/p>\n I. A Stone from a mountain: so runs the word.As the mountains stand while the works of man perish and decay, so the Godhead is changeless and eternal, while time passes, and with times changes all things else change and decay. So the Stone cut from the mountain sets forth the fact that the Christ Who came on Christmas Day was no new Personality, but that He had existed from all eternity, the Rock as He is ever called in psalm and prophecy. Cut without handsdescribes His entrance into this world: supernatural, miraculous. Who shall declare His generation? So in the fullness of time, in all points according to Daniels prophecy, the Stone, i.e. Christ, did fall upon the fourth empire; Christ the Rock, whereon His Church should be built. Nay, rather, as I may say, Christ Who is Himself His Own Kingdomfor what is the Church and Kingdom of God but the Body mystical of Christso that when we speak of the growth of the Church we do but speak of Him Who filleth all in all. Thus much is passed. Thus much had passed when St. John wrote the Apocalypse. And from that forward the Stone has gone on growing. Shattered is that Roman Empire. Shattered have been one after another of the governments, and nations, and systems which have grown out of it. But the Church has stood, and spread, and grown. No weapon formed against it has prospered. We see the prophecy of Daniel to be still working its mysterious way onward and upward, ever towards the Divine completion.<\/p>\n II. I ask you to look at one very practical bearing of this prophecy upon our Christian life, and upon the temper in which we ourselves should regard the growth and work of Christs Church among ourselves.The Stone should grow and spread and fill the whole earth. The growth of the Church is here symbolised by the growth of a Stone. It is a remarkable symbol to choose. Surely of all things that we know of which by nature do not grow, a Stone is the one which has in it no principle of growth. Seeds grow, but stones do not. Stones remain the same. Or, if they change, it is by breaking; they may vanish and disappear in fragments. But this Stone grows. And not this only, but even individual Christians are called living stones as wellas if to point out to us that whether as regards ourselves as individuals, or the Church in her aggregate, the life and growth is all from a higher source. For naturally, stones do not live any more than grow. The mark of the supernatural is over all. As it is a miracle for a stone to grow, so it is a miracle for the Church to spread, or for the Christian life to grow. As it is a miracle for a stone to live, so the life of the Christian is a supernatural life. The prophecy of Daniel stands as a perpetual warning to all those who calculate the prospects of the Truth by probabilities drawn from mere natural considerations, from views of expediency, or human policy. The right must win because it is right. The Stone must grow because it is from the Eternal Rock. Our own spiritual life must grow, if we are faithful, not because of our pains, or care, or toil, but because we are parts and members of Him Who is the source of all life in all Creation. Faith knows no doubt, no hesitation, no despair. Social forces may be arrayed against us, human politics may be marshalled on the side of the world-empires, but we are part of that Stone which Daniel saw in his days of exile, and which we too seealready growngrown far beyond the most daring expectation of merely human hope, or even of human imagination.<\/p>\n Illustration<\/p>\n As with the Apocalypse of St. John, so with the prophecy of Daniel; it, too, was an exiles work. It came not from any priest discharging his peaceful office in the calm precincts of the Temple of God. It came from no member of the prophetic schools, meditating devoutly in the quiet of his college. It came from one who had to say his daily prayer with window opened towards a Jerusalem in ruins far away beyond the Syrian deserts; a Jerusalem which he himself could never hope to see. There, in the midst of idolatrous Babylon, of Babylon rightly called Babylon the Great, but whose glory and greatness were each of them clean contrary to the right, an affront to the Majesty of Heaven, there it was that the mightiest of all the prophecies was revealed to the man greatly beloved of Heaven.<\/p>\n Dan 2:35. The immediate effect of the smiting on the feet by this stone was the crushing of the entire image into powder. It was not only crushed to pieces, but the fragments were blown out of sight as chaff is blown away. Slimmer threshingfloors has reference to an ancient method of threshing grain. The whole straw was piled on the floor in the path of the wind, it was beaten with a flail or trodden by oxen until the grain was forced out of the hull and the whole mass was a mixture of gTaln and chaff. Then it was scooped up and tossed into the air by an instrument called a winnowing shovel (called fan” in Mat 3:12). The passing breeze blew the chaff away because it was light, and the grain, being heavier, fell back to the ground to be recovered for use or to be stored. It should be noted that after this attack was made by the stone, it enlarged until it filled the whole earth.<\/p>\n Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Daniel 2:35”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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