I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my] body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
Ver. 15. I Daniel was grieved in my spirit.] Chald., My spirit was scabbed through, so that my body became as an empty sheath or scabbard. Oh, the terror of that last judgment, when such a man as Daniel was so frightened to see the manner of it in vision only! "If the righteous scarcely be saved," &c.
In the midst of my body.] Chald., Of my sheath: the body is but the soul's sheath (Pliny, a in the history of Hermotinus Clazomenius, maketh use of the same metaphor), and compared to the soul it is but as a clay wall that encompasseth a treasure, as a wooden box of a jeweller, as a coarse case to a rich instrument, or as a mask to a beautiful face.
a Lib. vii. cap. 52.