...his heart, and forgot God his maker ; his kingdom was wrested from him, and he was driven from among men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, tiU his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws. Beware, fellow-sinner,...

...his reason, and astonished him with deadly madness. He was driven from men, and did eat grass as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were g-own as eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws, an. iv. He imagined that he was an ox,...

...whomsoever He will." The thing was accomplished that very hour; and in this state he remained until " liis hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws;" the meaning of which seems to he that his proud, mind was in that instant shattered, and fell into...

...heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses : they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever...

...In the same hour his understanding departed from him ; " he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like the claws of a bird," Dan. iv. 2S— 33. The malady by which the Divine judgment punished the pride...

...simply to wet or bedew, as is evident from Dan. iv. 33 : " The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet (ebaphe) with the dew of heaven." Precisely the same expression occurs in the following chapter, verse...

...lifeless body of the Jewish Church. Compare this with the description of Nebuchadnezzar, iv. 33 : " his hairs were grown like eagles' (feathers), and his nails like birds' (claws)." After a while, in pursuance of the same symbol (viz. parallel to Nebuchadnezzar's recovery, v. 16,...

...whomsoever he will." The thing was accomplished that very hour; and in this state he remained until " his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." The meaning of which seems to be that his proud mind was in that instant shattered, and fell into a...

...the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will. The same hour was the thing- fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding...

...the beasts of the field." And the sacred historian adds, "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws" (Dan. iv. 31 — 33). Never was a check given to human presumption more prompt and overwhelming, or...