OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 4:7

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Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.

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Verse 7. Tree often denotes princes; (Ezekiel 31:3) and according to the false principles ( Calmet.) of those who pretend to explain dreams, always ( Bible.) implies some great personage. Achmet. Calmet. 200. Grot.—But nothing is more vain than these pretensions. Calmet.

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