Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . Verse 1. Kebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whosehight was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he setit up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Bab3ion. ^j^^HEIlE is a conjecture extant that this image had some^W^ reference to the dream of the king as described in thei previous chapter, it having been erected only twenty-three years subsequently, according to the marginal chronol-ogy. In that dream the head was of gold, representing Nebu-chadnezzars kingdom. That was succeeded by metals ofinferior quality
Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . Verse 1. Kebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whosehight was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he setit up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Bab3ion. ^j^^HEIlE is a conjecture extant that this image had some^W^ reference to the dream of the king as described in thei previous chapter, it having been erected only twenty-three years subsequently, according to the marginal chronol-ogy. In that dream the head was of gold, representing Nebu-chadnezzars kingdom. That was succeeded by metals ofinferior quality, denoting a succession of kingdoms. Nebu-chadnezzar was doubtless quite gratified that his kingdomshould be represented by the gold ; but that it should everbe succeeded by another kingdom was not so pleasing. Hence,instead of having simply the head of his image of gold, hemade it all of gold, to denote that the gold of the head shouldextend through the entire image; or, in other words, that hiskingdom should not give way to another kingdom, but bep
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