His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. As the two arms of silver denote the kings of the Medes and Persians (Josephus), and the two thighs of brass the Seleucidae of Syria and Lagidae of Egypt, the two leading sections into which Graeco-Macedonia parted; so the two legs of iron signify the two Roman consuls (Newton). The clay (in Daniel 2:41, "potter's clay;" Daniel 2:43, "miry clay") means earthen-ware, hard but brittle (cf. Psalms 2:9; Revelation 2:27, where the same image is used of the same event). The feet are stable while bearing only direct pressure, but easily broken to pieces by a blow (Daniel 2:34) the iron intermixed, not retarding, but hastening, such a result.