There is a man in thy kingdom - Namely, Daniel. As the queen-mother had lived in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, and recollected the im…

The spirit.— Compare Daniel 4:8-9.

Your father.— No blood relationship is necessarily implied by this word…

Here Daniel relates the occasion of his being brought before the king, as the reader and interpreter of the writing. The queen, he says, did this. …

There is a man in your kingdom She does not say in his court; very probably, after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, perhaps i…

Daniel was forgotten at court; he lived privately and was then ninety years of age. Many consult servants of God on curious questions, or to explai…