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And. Thus linking on this chapter of momentous prophecy with Dan 1, which is pure history.
the second year: 495 B.C. (Daniel's eighteenth year). Therefore Jehoiakim's fifth year, the year of the burning of the roll which marked the official rejection of Jehovah. Hence Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Daniel was in Babylon, and writes from that standpoint. The supposed difficulty is a proof of genuineness; for the writer would have been a fool as well as a forger to have left it unexplained.
Nebuchadnezzar. See note on Dan_1:1.
spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
brake from = had been upon: i.e. had now gone from.