The spirit. — Comp. Daniel 4:8-9.
Thy father. — No blood relationship is necessarily implied by this word. It means no more than “predecessor.” (See Introd., sec. VI.)
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Daniel 5:11
11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy fathere light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;