I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
The queen-mother came to his rescue with counsel, for she knew Daniel, a man in whom dwelt the spirit of the holy gods, with light and understanding and wisdom beyond all the other wise men. The king's physicians for melancholy were his own counselors; he needed a physician for his pride, and she knew where to find him.
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Commenting on Daniel 5:10-29
I have even heard of thee,.... Very probably he had heard often of him, though he did not think fit to honour him, and use him with that familiarity his grandfather had; or however he had now just heard of him by the queen, whose encomiums of him he recites in her own words: that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that...
I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. (k) For the idolaters thought that the angels had power as God, and therefore held them in the same estimation that they held God, thinking that the spirit of prophecy and understanding came from them.