Daniel 4:13

I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed,.... The king goes on to relate what other things presented themselves to his imagination in his dream, concerning this tree which signified himself:

and,…

I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed - In the visions that passed before me as I lay upon my bed, Dan 4:10. And, behold, a watcher and an holy one - Or rather, perhaps, “even a holy one;” or,…

A watcher and a holy one - These are both angels; but, according to the Chaldean oracles, of different orders. They appear, according to their opinions, to be a kind of judges of human actions who had…

Nebuchadnezzar, before he relates the judgments of God that had been wrought upon him for his pride, gives an account of the fair warning he had of them before they came, a due regard to which might…

a watcher i.e. not a guardian, but a wakeful one (Aq., Symm., ἐγρήγορος, Vulg. vigil); so Dan 4:4; Dan 4:4. The term denotes an angel, or, possibly, a particular class of angels, so called, either as…