Daniel 2

2. Christ is a King in reference to his enemies, in subduing and conquering them: he pulls down their pride, befools their policy, restrains their malice. That stone cut out of the mountains without hands, which struck the image (Daniel 2:34), was an emblem, says Augustine, of C…

First, his infinite intelligence. He knows the most profound, abstruse secrets (Daniel 2:28). He knows the thoughts, which are the most intricate, subtle things (Amos 4:13).

It is counted great policy to be on the strongest side; if we belong to the King of Heaven we are sure to be on the strongest side: The King of Glory can with ease destroy his adversaries; he can pull down their pride, befool their policy, restrain their malice. That stone cut o…

If a man has a dream with any strong impression, he is apt to give heed to it and think there is something in it. What made Nebuchadnezzar think there must be something in his dream (Daniel 2 and 4) — when he had actually forgotten what it was — was that it made him afraid and h…

And Zechariah 12.3, there is a prophecy of the Church in the new Testament: the Lord says, He will make Jerusalem (that is his Church) an heavy stone; for all people that lift it up shall be torn, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it: where the Prophet sets…

These words contain a reason of all the former petitions: whereby we are moved to crave things needful at God's hand. Yours is] Earthly kings have kingdom, power, and glory (Daniel 2:37). Yet not from themselves, but from God, whose vicegerents they are on earth.

Therefore that power that Satan has is not given but permitted; not absolute but limited. It is a lie, that Satan can give these things at pleasure, see these Scriptures, (Psalm 24:1) The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein, (Dani…

Witchcraft: The word [illegible] properly signifies poisoning: but here it is fitly translated witchcraft: because all poisoning is comprehended under murder which follows. And the Magicians of Egypt (Exodus 7) are called [illegible] in the translation of the Seventy: as also th…

In steadfastness.] The word Emeth signifies all steadfastness whatever; and truth. Here the Prophet means that the kingdom of Christ shall be firm and stable, as Daniel also has witnessed (Daniel 2:44 and 7:14). Likewise the Evangelist Luke: Of his kingdom (says he) shall be non…

He now comes to a specialty then, and promises that Cyrus shall come with haste, however it seem impossible in the eyes of flesh and blood. Where I have translated the word Aait, thought, almost all the interpreters translate Bird, which is the true signification of the word: bu…

Such is the cause and object of the changes which is assigned by David, "He pours contempt upon princes," (Psalm 107:39;) and by Daniel, "He changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings," (Daniel 2:21.) We see, indeed, how the princes of the world grow…

1. His Godhead, which is the most eminent nature of Christ's person, sustaining the other, and furnishing it for its offices; Thus, (1 Corinthians 11:3) as the head of the woman is the man, in respect of his dignity; so the head of Christ is God, as the Godhead dwells in him bod…

John the Baptist preached, that the kingdom of heaven was at hand; and so did Christ, and his disciples after him; referring to something that the Jews in those days expected, and very much talked of, which they called by that name. They seem to have taken their expectation and…

These mighty empires were suffered thus to overthrow the world, and might destroy one another: and though their power was so great, yet they could not uphold themselves, but fell one after another, and came to nothing, even the last of them, that was the strongest, and had swall…

Doubtless one nation shall be enlightened and converted after another, one false religion and false way of worship exploded after another. By the representation in Daniel 2:3-4, the stone cut out of the mountains without hands gradually grows. So Christ teaches us, that the king…

Fourthly, no communion, no society in which there is so much profit and benefit, as to be amongst these. As Abigail said to David, The Lord shall binde up the soul of my Lord in the bundle of life: to be amongst Gods people, is to be bound up in the bundle of life; much good we…

Two things are eminent in gold; splendor or glory, and duration; this is that which the spouse speaks of the head of Christ: his head, is his government, authority, and kingdom; hence it is said a crown of pure gold was on his head (Psalm 21:3), and his head is here said to be g…

The exercise of the outward senses is from God, who gives the seeing eye, the hearing ear; much more the right exercise of the internal faculties; an understanding heart is much more from the Lord: (Proverbs 2:6) The Lord gives wisdom, out of his mouth comes knowledge and unders…

When the scepter was gone from Judah (Genesis 49:10), when the crown was possessed by Herod a tributary and foreigner, during the Roman Monarchy, which at length Christ should utterly destroy. Daniel 2:35. Nebuchadnezzar had a vision of an image of four different metals, the hea…

Endless are the delusions that Satan fastens upon souls, for want of this self-search. It is necessary therefore, that we try our state, lest we take the shadow for the substance, and embrace a cloud instead of Juno (Daniel 2:32-33). 4. Satan will try us at one time or other; he…

But this is not to be found on earth; we must go to heaven for it. Third, there is an evangelical purity, when grace is mingled with some sin — like gold in the ore, like air in the twilight, like wine with a dash in it, like fine cloth with a coarse edge, like Nebuchadnezzar's…

4. In true confession a man does particularize sin. A wicked man acknowledgs he is a sinner in general; he confesss sin by whole-sale; his confession of sin is much like Nebuchadnezzars dream, (Daniel 2:3). I have dream'd a dream; but he could not tell what it was, verse 5.

There is a dying principle in all; the frame and contexture of their body is earthly, and tends to a dissolution. Nebuchadnezzar's image, though it had a head of gold, yet feet of clay, Daniel 2. 23. Take the strongest man, let him be Samson or Hercules, of whom we may say as th…

Answer 1. It does not appear, that [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] in the Septuagint always signifies a limited duration; nor is it used in this sense in all the instances, which Dr. C. produces to prove, that it always means a limited duration: as (Psalm 145:13) Your kingdom is an…

It was not a universal mourning of all the Jews in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, but of Shushan the Palace, and yet they prevailed with God for the safety of the whole land (Esther 4:16-17), by which was cut asunder all the snares of the Jews, so as before they in the cou…