And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Nebuchadnezzar worshipped images, so God sent him a dream of a great statue to show him what his idols truly were: mere dreams, creatures of fancy that cost treasure and labor but signified nothing. The King had shown kindness to this poor prophet, and now received a prophet's reward that no money could buy.
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Commenting on Daniel 2:31-45
Some of these ten kingdoms were strong as iron, others weak as clay and easily broken. The papal power, both secular and ecclesiastical, worked through this mixture, each encroaching on the other, and weakened them all the more for it.
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The statue is not an idol but a human figure, unified because world-power itself is one thing expressed in successive phases. Its terror came not from size and shine alone, but from what it meant: the fearful dominion of worldly power arrayed against God's people.
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Commenting on Daniel 2:31-45