Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:19
19. A purely absolute monarchy (Jeremiah 27:7). read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:21
21. heart was made like . . . beasts—literally, "he made his heart like the beasts," that is, he desired to dwell with them. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:22
22. Thou hast erred not through ignorance, but through deliberate contempt of God, notwithstanding that thou hadst before thine eyes the striking warning given in thy grandfather's case. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:23
23. whose are all thy ways— (Jeremiah 10:23). read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:24
24. Then—When thou liftedst up thyself against the Lord. the part of the hand—the fore part, the fingers. was . . . sent from him—that is, from God. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:25
25. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin—literally, "numbered, weighed, and dividers." read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:26
26. God hath fixed the number of years of thine empire, and that number is now complete. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:27
27. weighed in the balances—The Egyptians thought that Osiris weighed the actions of the dead in a literal balance. The Babylonians may have had the same notion, which would give a peculiar appropriateness to the image here used. found wanting—too light before God, the weigher of actions (1 Samuel 2:3; Psalms 62:9). Like spurious gold or silver (Jeremiah 6:30). read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:28
28. Peres—the explanation of "dividers" (Daniel 5:25), the active participle plural there being used for the passive participle singular, "dividers" for "divided." The word "Peres" alludes to the similar word "Persia." divided—namely, among the Medes and Persians [MAURER]; or, "severed" from thee [GROTIUS]. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:18
18. God gave—It was not his own birth or talents which gave him the vast empire, as he thought. To make him unlearn his proud thought was the object of God's visitation on him. majesty—in the eyes of his subjects. glory—from his victories. honour—from the enlargement and decoration of the city. read more