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Daniel 5:26

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

This is the interpretation of the thing,.... Or, "word" ; for they might all seem as one word; or this is the sense of the whole:MENE; as for this word, it signifies,God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; God had fixed the number of years, how long that monarchy should last, which he was now at the head of, and which was foretold, Jer 25:1, and also the number of years that he should reign over it; and both these numbers were now completed; for that very night Belshazzar was slain, and the kingdom translated to another people: and a dreadful thing it is to be numbered to the sword, famine, and pestilence, or any sore judgment of God for sin, as sometimes men are; so more especially to be appointed to everlasting wrath, and to be numbered among transgressors, among the devils and damned in hell.

atlm "sermonis", V. L.

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