{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3738","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":31,"verse_to":31},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: Verses 31, 32. \"While the saying was yet in the king's mouth, a voice from heaven assailed him: 'King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken, thy kingdom shall pass away (variant reading: is passing away) from thee and they shall cast thee forth from among mankind.'\" His arrogant boasting is immediately punished by the Lord. For this reason the execution of the sentence is not delayed, lest mercy towards the poor seem to have profited him not at all. But as soon as he has spoken in pride, he straightway loses the kingdom which had been reserved for him on account of his works of charity.</p><p>\"...until thou dost recognize that the Most High reigns in the kingdom of men.\" In misery it comes as a great consolation to know, when one is in a painful situation, that a more favorable future will ensue. Yet Nebuchadnezzar's fury and madness were so pronounced that in time of affliction he would not have remembered the blessings which God had promised him.<br/><i>— St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER FOUR</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Since he dreamed of going up to heaven, he received the verdict from there; and since he was not satisfied with the palace here below, and instead at the same time he insanely hankered after one on high, he was deprived of the one here below; in his wish to snatch heaven he was driven also from earth.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 4:31</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"87449fc92d375b682db9634caf82caea9a33e9f450ee93d9b1a63c7cb15944bc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3738,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0de32b99560bef27c37b7f96cd78c9d8aff02fed27b0bcceccb7b46e9116eee5","translator":null,"work":null}