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I Nebuchadnezzar, &c. Here the king again speaks. This corresponds with the Proclamation (verses: Dan_4:1-3), and is the ground of its being made.
the Most High. Compare verses: Dan_4:17, Dan_4:32.
I praised, &c. Modern critics are stumbled because Nebuchadnezzar should do this while he was an idolater. But surely it is the token that a great change had taken place. This occurred in 454, just after Astyages (the great king = Artaxerxes) had issued his decree for the rebuilding of Jerusalem; and it was imperative that Nebuchadnezzar should now issue this imperial decree. See App-58. This year, 454 B. C, is specially marked by the issue of these two momentous proclamations. When Nebuchadnezzar's madness began, Daniel was fifty-two, and when it ended, he was fifty-nine years old.