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224 A Commentary
Chapter fufficiency, as if he had faid, I fear none, nor
XXVIII. ftand in need of any : I am feated in a Place of
O^VNJ impregnable Strength : T s lur round me that
no Enemy can affinlt me- So they reprefent the
Excelftve Pride and Carnal Security of this Prince,
who trufted in his own Strength, and forgot his
Dependance upon God. The fame Crime was in
like manner punifhed in the King of Egypt, Chap.
xxix. $. and afterward in Nebuchadnezzar himfelfj
Dan.iv. 30,51. So '"'Babylon is reprefented as
afcribing ielf-fufficiency to her felf, and faying in
her Heart, / am, and there is none elfe befides me,
Jfa. lvii. 10.
Ibid. In the midfi of the Seas.2 See Chapter
xxvii. 4.
Ibid. Yet thou art a Man, and not God.~\ A
an unequal Match for the
weak Mortal Man :
King of 'Babylon's Forces ; See Ver. 9. and Ifa.
xxxi. 3.
Ver. ?.
1
Ver. 3. 'Behold thou art wifer than Daniel. ]
The Fame of Daniel's Wifdom was quickly fpread
over Chaldea, upon his being advanced to feveral
Polls of Honour and Dignity by Nebuchadnezzar.
See Dan. u. 48. fo here the Prophet in an Ironical
Manner upbraids the vain Boafts which the
Prince of Tyre made of his Wifdom, and the Policy
of thofe about him, as if it exceeded the Endowments
of Daniel, fo famous, though a Young
Man, for his Skill in the feveral Parts of Knowlege,
and the Arts of Government. The Thenicians
of whom the Tyrians were a Colony, (fee the.
Note on Ifa. xxiii. 1 2.) valued themfelves for their
Wifdom and Ingenuity, as being the Inventers of
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