IN the first year of Belshazzar] That Daniel might joyn together Babels stories, and such as did depend upon them without interruption, therefore he displaced the two visions which now follow; the one in the first of Belshazzar of Babels fall in the seventh Chapter, the other in Chap. 8. in the third of Belshazzar, of the Persians fal: both which in order of time go before Chap. 5. had a dream] Chald. saw a dream. visions of his head] Which were internally represented to his imagination, and not to externall sense, Daniel 4:5. he wrote the dream] Whereas the people of Israel looked for continuall quietnesse after these seventy years, as Jeremiah had declared, he sheweth that this rest shall not be a deliverance from all troubles, but a beginning; and therefore encouraged them to look for a continuall affliction till the Messiah be revealed, by whom they should have a spirituall deliverance, and all the promises fulfilled; whereof they should have a certaine token in the destruction of the Babylonian Kingdom. told the summe] To wit, to his people, because for their instruction and consolation against persecutions to come, God shewed that dream to Daniel. matters] Or, words.