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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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21 And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild Asses: they fed him with grass like Oxen, & his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the most high God did rule over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whom so ever he pleaseth.
21 And he was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses: they fed him with grasse like Oxen, & his body was wet with the dew of heauen, till he knew that the most hye God did rule ouer the kingdome of mē, and that he appointeth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth.
This verse needeth no long exposition, because Daniel doth repeat only that which he had written before, that ⟨image 99⟩his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar, though he were not changed into a beast, yet at the least he was cast forth of mans company, & that he was deformed throughout all his body, & that he him self abhorred mans company & would rather dwell with brute beasts. This was a horrible example, especially in such a great monarch, and worthy to be left in memory to the posterity from hand to hand even to a thousand generations, if that Monarch had endured so long. But that his nephew had so soon forgotten this lesson, hereby is he worthily reproved of shameful security and carelessness. This then is the cause why Daniel doth again rehearse the history: He was cast forth from the sons of men (saith he) and his hart was like the beasts, that is to say, he was destitute of reason and judgement for a time. And we know that this is the chief difference betwixt men and beasts, that men do understand and judge: but the brute beasts are only carried by their senses. God therefore showed a terrible example upon this king when he thus spoiled him of reason and understanding.