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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 2:27 - 2:27
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cannot - Daniel, being learned in all the lore of the Chaldeans (Dan 1:4), could authoritatively declare the impossibility of mere man solving the king’s difficulty.
soothsayers - from a root, “to cut off”; referring to their cutting the heavens into divisions, and so guessing at men’s destinies from the place of the stars at one’s birth.