The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me — The Vulgate renders this, “Sermo recessit a me” — “The wor…

Is gone from me.— This difficult word, whose etymology is very uncertain, appears only here and in Daniel 2:8. It seems to mean, “…

Here the king requires from the Chaldeans more than they claimed to provide him. For although their boasting, as we have said, was foolish in promi…

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans In the same language they spoke to him: the thing is gone from me…

The greatest individuals are most susceptible to mental cares and troubles, which disturb their rest at night, while the sleep of the laboring pers…