I Nebuchadnezzar, &c. Here the king again speaks. This corresponds with the Proclamation (verses: Daniel 4:1-3), and is the ground of its being made.
the Most High. Compare verses: Daniel 4:17; Daniel 4:32.
I praised, &c. Modern critics are stumbled because Nebuchadnezzar should do this while he was an idolater. But surely it is the token that. great change had taken place. This occurred in 454, just after Astyages (the great king. Artaxerxes) had issued his decree for the rebuilding of Jerusalem; and it was imperative that Nebuchadnezzar should now issue this imperial decree. See App-58. This year, 454 B. C, is specially marked by the issue of these two momentous proclamations. When Nebuchadnezzar's madness began, Daniel was fifty-two, and when it ended, he was fifty-nine years old.