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Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…Commentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially…
Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially for the use of the family of the right honourable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glass, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by considering the text, meditating the sense thereof, and by prayerCommentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially for the vse of the family of the ryght honorable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glasse, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by consideryng the text, meditatyng the sense therof, and by prayer
London: printed by John Daye, 1570London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1570
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7 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed. And behold I saw a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great: §118 A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the ends of all the earth. §129 The boughs thereof were fair, and the fruit ⟨image 55⟩thereof much, and it was meat for all, it made a shadow under it for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh fed of it. §1310 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold a watchman & an holy one came down from the heavens, §1411 And cried aloud and said thus: hew down the tree, and break of his branches: shake of his leaves and scatter his fruit, that the beasts may fly from under it, and the fowls from his branches. §1512 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, and with a baud of iron and brass bind it among the grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew, and let his portion be with the beasts among the the grass of the field. §1613 Let his hart be changed from mans nature, and let a beasts hart be given unto him, and let seven times be passed over him.
7 Thus were the visions of myne head in my bed. And beholde I saw a tree in the middes of the earth, and the height thereof was great: §118 A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.