OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 4:32

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You shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”

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Verse 32. With, or “by the powers (angels. verse 10.) … as by men.” Grot.—The stars are also frequently thus described. Matthew 24:29. The king probably believed that the God of the Jews was above his gods, the sun, fire, and so forth Calmet.

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