And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
There is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh - answering to "no man upon the earth;" for there were, in their belief, 'men in heaven'-namely, men deified, e.g., Nimrod. The supreme gods are referred to here, who alone, in the Chaldean view, could solve the difficulty, but who do not communicate with men. The inferior gods intermediate between men and the supreme gods, are unable to solve it. Contrast with this pagan idea of the utter severance of God from man, John 1:14, "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Daniel was in this case made His representative.