14<\/strong>. The strength and magnificence of the great tree are all to be stripped from it.<\/p>\n aloud<\/em> ] lit. with might<\/em>, as Dan 3:4<\/span>.<\/p>\n Hew down<\/em> &c.] who are addressed, is not stated: as in other similar cases (Isa 13:2<\/span>; Isa 40:3<\/span>; Isa 57:14<\/span>, Jer 4:5<\/span>, &c.), those whose duty it would naturally be to fulfil such a command are intended.<\/p>\n He cried aloud – <\/B>Margin, as in the Chaldee, with might. That is, he cried with a strong voice.<\/P> Hew down the tree – <\/B>This command does not appear to have been addressed to any particular ones who were to execute the commission, but it is a strong and significant way of saying that it would certainly be done. Or possibly the command may be understood as addressed to his fellow-watchers Dan 4:17<\/span>, or to orders of angels over whom this one presided.<\/P> And cut off his branches … – <\/B>The idea here, and in the subsequent part of the verse, is, that the tree was to be utterly cut up, and all its glory and beauty destroyed. It was first to be felled, and then its limbs chopped off, and then these were to be stripped of their foliage, and then the fruit which it bore was to be scattered. All this was strikingly significant, as applied to the monarch, of some awful calamity that was to occur to him after he should have been brought down from his throne. A process of humiliation and desolation was to continue, as if the tree, when cut down, were not suffered to lie quietly in its grandeur upon the earth. Let the beasts get away, etc. That is, it shall cease to afford a shade to the beasts and a home to the fowls. The purposes which it had answered in the days of its glory will come to an end.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 14. Hew down the tree<\/B><\/I>] As the tree was to be cut down, the beasts are commanded to flee away from under his branches<\/I>. His courtiers, officers, c., all abandoned him as soon as his insanity appeared but he soon fled from the society of men.<\/P> <\/p>\n He cried aloud, and said; <\/B>whereby is shown the consent of the angels, when one stirs up another to cut down, i.e. to cast out and take away. <\/P> <\/p>\n 14. Hew down<\/B> (Mat 3:10<\/span>;Luk 13:7<\/span>). The holy (Jude14<\/span>) one incites his fellow angels to God’s appointed work(compare Rev 14:15<\/span>; Rev 14:18<\/span>).<\/P> beasts get away from underit<\/B>It shall no longer afford them shelter (Eze31:12<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n He cried aloud<\/strong>,…. Or, with strengths; l being a mighty angel, and that he might be heard far and near:<\/p>\n and said thus, hew down the tree<\/strong>; remove this mighty monarch from his throne; take away his government from him: this is said to fellow angels employed in the affairs of Providence, and the execution of them, to bring about an event so momentous:<\/p>\n and cut off his branches<\/strong>; take away his provinces, each of the parts of his dominion, from him:<\/p>\n shake off his leaves<\/strong>: cause his deputy governors to shake off their allegiance to him:<\/p>\n and scatter his fruit<\/strong>; the revenues of his vast empire, and let others take them:<\/p>\n let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches<\/strong>; those that have either voluntarily betook themselves to him for protection; or have been carried captive by him, and have lived under his shadow, whether of the more barbarous nations, or more civilized, as the Jews; let them take the opportunity of withdrawing from him, and returning to their own lands; see Jer 51:9<\/span>.<\/p>\n l “in virtute”, Montanus; “cum robore”, Gejerus; “fortier”, Cocceius, Michaelis; “strenue”, Junius & Tremellius, Broughtonus.<\/p>\n (4:11-12)<\/p>\n The messenger of God cried with might (cf. Dan 3:4<\/span>), “as a sign of the strong, firm utterance of a purpose” (Kran.). The command, Hew it down, is not given to the angels (Hv., Hitz., Auberl.). The plur. here is to be regarded as impersonal: the tree shall be cut down<\/em>. stands for according to the analogy of the verbs 3rd gutt<\/em>., from , to fall off<\/em>, spoken of withering leaves. In consequence of the destruction of the tree, the beasts which found shelter under it and among its branches flee away. Yet the tree shall not be altogether destroyed, but its stock (v. 12 15) shall remain in the earth, that it may again afterwards spring up and grow into a tree. The stem is not the royalty, the dynasty which shall remain in the house of Nebuchadnezzar (Hv.), but the tree with its roots is Nebuchadnezzar, who shall as king be cut down, but shall as a man remain, and again shall grow into a king. But the stock must be bound “with a band of iron and brass.” With these words, to complete which we must supply from the preceding context, the language passes from the type to the person represented by it. This transition is in the last part of the verse: with the beasts of the field let him have his portion in the grass of the earth<\/em>; for this cannot be said of the stock with the roots, therefore these words are in the interpretation also (Dan 4:22<\/span> [25]) applied directly to Nebuchadnezzar. But even in the preceding passages this transition is not doubtful. Neither the words in the grass of the field<\/em>, nor the being wet with the dew of heaven<\/em>, are suitable as applied to the stock of the tree, because both expressions in that case would affirm nothing; still less is the band of iron and brass<\/em> congruous, for the trunk of a tree is not wont to be surrounded with bands of iron in order to prevent its being rent in pieces and completely destroyed. Thus the words refer certainly to Nebuchadnezzar; but the fastening in brass and iron is not, with Jerome and others, to be understood of the binding of the madman with chains, but figuratively or spiritually of the withdrawal of free self-determination through the fetter of madness; cf. The fetters of affliction<\/em>, Psa 107:10<\/span>; Job 36:8<\/span>. With this fettering also agrees the going forth under the open heaven among the grass of the field, and the being wet with the dew of heaven, without our needing thereby to think of the maniac as wandering about without any oversight over him.<\/p>\n He afterwards adds— the angel cried with a loud voice, cut down the tree, strip off the leaves, cut off its boughs, scatter its fruits, (or throw them away,) and let the beasts flee from its shadow, and the birds of heaven dwell no longer under its branches By this figure God meant to express that King Nebuchadnezzar should be for a time like a beast. This ought not to seem absurd, although it is but rough to speak of a tree being deprived of a human heart, since men know trees to have no other life than that usually called vegetable. The dignity or excellence of the tree cannot be lessened by its being without a human heart, for it never had one originally. But though this is rather a rough mode of expression., yet it contains in it nothing absurd, although Daniel bends a little aside from the strictness of the allegory; nay, Nebuchadnezzar himself had an allegorical dream, and yet God mingled something with it by which he might comprehend the meaning veiled under the image of a tree. The angel, then, orders the tree to be deprived of its human heart, and its bough and fruit to be torn down and cast away, after it had been cut down; next he orders the heart of a beast to be given to it, and thus its portion might be with the wild animals of the woods. But as this must be repeated elsewhere, I now pass it by rather hastily. The general meaning is this; King Nebuchadnezzar was to be deprived for a time not only of his empire but even of his human sense, and to be in no way different from the beasts, since he was unworthy of holding even the lowest place among mankind. Although he seemed to surpass the human race in his elevation, yet he must be cast down and thrown below even the lowest mortals! <\/p>\n (14) Aloud<\/strong>i.e.,<\/em> like a kings herald. (Comp. Dan. 3:4<\/span>.)<\/p>\n Hew down.<\/strong>The plural is here used, implying that several persons are employed in carrying out the order.<\/p>\n Dan 4:14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:<\/p>\n Ver. 14. Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches.<\/strong> ] One angel seems to call to another to expedite the execution, so earnest they are in the Church’s revenge. Rev 18:21 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let the beasts get away.<\/strong> ] Let this great conqueror be stripped at once of his train and dignity. The Duke of Florence gave for his ensign a great tree with many spreading boughs, one of them being cut off, with this posy, Uno avulso non deficit alter; <\/em> but here it was otherwise.<\/p>\n Dan 4:14-16<\/p>\n Dan 4:14 He criedH7123 aloud,H2429 and saidH560 thus,H3652 Hew downH1414 the tree,H363 and cut offH7113 his branches,H6056 shake offH5426 his leaves,H6074 and scatterH921 his fruit:H4 let the beastsH2423 get awayH5111 fromH4481 underH8479 it, and the fowlsH6853 fromH4481 his branches:H6056 <\/p>\n Dan 4:15 NeverthelessH1297 leaveH7662 the stumpH6136 of his rootsH8330 in the earth,H772 even with a bandH613 ofH1768 ironH6523 and brass,H5174 in the tender grassH1883 ofH1768 the field;H1251 and let it be wetH6647 with the dewH2920 of heaven,H8065 and let his portionH2508 be withH5974 the beastsH2423 in the grassH6211 of the earth:H772 <\/p>\n Dan 4:16 Let his heartH3825 be changedH8133 fromH4481 man’s,H606 and let a beast’sH2423 heartH3825 be givenH3052 unto him; and let sevenH7655 timesH5732 passH2499 overH5922 him. <\/p>\n Dan 4:14-16<\/p>\n He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. <\/p>\n Daniel explains it to Nebuchadnezzar thus: “They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses” (NKJV)<\/p>\n Nebuchadnezzar is going to be humbled, driven away and he will live like a wild beast among the fields, naked, unshorn, unkept, crawling around on all fours and eating grass like an ox. Nebuchadnezzar has let his pride get out of hand and God is simply going to show him who is really running the affairs of the earth. <\/p>\n aloud: Chal, with might, Dan 3:4, Rev 10:3, Rev 18:2 <\/p>\n Hew: Dan 4:23, Dan 5:20, Mat 3:10, Mat 7:19, Luk 3:9, Luk 13:7-9 <\/p>\n let: Dan 4:12, Jer 51:6, Jer 51:9, Eze 31:12, Eze 31:13 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Job 24:20 – wickedness Isa 10:34 – by a mighty one Dan 4:17 – by the Dan 4:32 – they shall drive Dan 5:7 – aloud Rev 6:13 – of a Rev 18:9 – shall bewail<\/p>\n Dan 4:14. The king heard the watcher shout with a loud voice that the tree must be shorn of its leaves (its beauty), its branches (place of resting) cut off, its fruit (food) be scattered, be forsaken by the beasts and birds, and the body Of the tree be cut down. This would seem to be the end of the tree, but we shall see that the condition was not to be permanent.<\/p>\n He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: 14. The strength and magnificence of the great tree are all to be stripped from it. aloud ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Daniel 4:14”<\/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-21862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862","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=21862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21862"}],"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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