But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Daniel sets God's revelation against human conjecture: all the wisdom of the Magi is hemmed in by its own boundaries, but the Almighty distributes insight as He wills. The dream came directly from God, not from the king's own mind wandering and guessing.
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Daniel rushed to stop the executions, asking mercy even for men who deserved death as magicians. A good man is a common good: he secured the lives of all those wise men, though they repaid him with ingratitude later. God shows kindness to evil and good alike; so must we.
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Commenting on Daniel 2:24-30
Daniel declares one God in heaven against heathen polytheism, and reserves all revelation of secrets to Him alone, not to magicians or astrologers. The dream foretells the fall of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom and the succession of Persia, Greece, Rome, and the Messiah's own latter days.
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