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Then: it notes both the time and cause of what happened; extraordinary successes, and a continued series of them, attending the designs and attempts of the Chaldean kings, at last made them so haughty and proud, as to trample on kings, Hab_1:10; and when their pride was at this height, it stops not here.
His mind; the spirit or wind, as the Hebrew, and so some think the prophet does foretell the change of his prosperous gales, his downfall; but it is more natural to understand it of the change of mind in the prosperous Chaldean, he will think other thoughts of himself. his affairs, and of other men.
He shall pass over; break over the bounds of all sober and modest sentiments, exceed in his value of himself, and of his achievements, as Sennacherib first did, 2Ch_32:17-19, and next Nebuchadnezzar, surnamed the Great, Dan_4:29,30.
Offend: this pride was a great sin, and highly provoked God; for the insolent tyrant idolized himself.
Imputing this his power, the strength by which he had done all this great exploits, or the might and power to which he had advanced himself, unto
his god: this at first seems a little tolerable, it seems to savour somewhat of religion, yet it is a great offence thus to ascribe his grandeur to a dumb idol, but it is worse to reckon his strength to be his god, as the words will express it in the Hebrew. See Dan_4:29,30.