Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
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Gill's Exposition
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night,.... He declared he had had a vision by night, and this was the substance of it:
and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great…
Barnes' Notes
Daniel spake and said - That is, he spake and said in the manner intimated in the previous verse. It was by a record made at the time, and thus he might be said to speak to his own generation and to…
Adam Clarke
The four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea - The idea of strife is taken here from the effects that must be produced, were the east, the west, the north, and the south winds to rise…
The date of this chapter places it before ch. 5, which was in the last year of Belshazzar, and ch. 6, which was in the first of Darius; for Daniel had those visions in the first year of Belshazzar,…
Cambridge Bible
Daniel answered and said, I saw properly, I was seeing(or beholding), as Dan 4:10; Dan 4:13: so Dan 7:7; Dan 7:6-7; Dan 7:7; Dan 7:7(twice), 13, 21. LXX. and Theod. rightly render by ἐθεώρουν.
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