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(4:2)
While in this state of security and peace, he was alarmed by a dream. The abrupt manner in which the matter is here introduced well illustrates the unexpected suddenness of the even itself. הַרהֹרִין, thoughts, from הַרְהֵר, to think, to meditate; in the Mishna and in Syr. images of the imagination; here, images in a dream. The words מִשְׁכְּבִי עַל הַרְהֹרִין are more properly taken as a passage by themselves with the verb, I had (I saw), supplied, than connected with the following noun to יְבַהֲלֻנַּנִי. Regarding רֵאשִׁי חֶזְוֵי see under Dan 2:28. On this matter Chr. B. Michaelis has well remarked: ”Licet somnii interpretationem nondum intelligeret, tamen sensit, infortunium sibi isthoc somnio portendi.”