O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians,.... So he called him, either because he excelled them in knowledge, and was greater than they, as Jacchiades; though not of their rank and order, which Daniel would have scorned to have been among, and reckoned of; so that this would have been no compliment, but a grief unto him; or because he was appointed by the king chief over them, and even over their governors;
[See comments on Daniel 2:48]:
because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee;
[See comments on Daniel 4:8];
and no secret troubleth thee; any ways perplexes thy mind to find it out; it is easy to thee to come at; it gives thee no manner of trouble to get knowledge of it; there is no secret hidden from thee; all is plain before thee, and with the utmost facility canst thou reveal it:
tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen; that is, the meaning of them; for the king remembered this his dream, and afterwards tells it very particularly:
and the interpretation of it; it may be rendered, "that is, the interpretation of it" (h); for that only was what the king wanted.
(h) ופשרה "id est, interpretationem ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Broughtonus, Michaelis.
O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians,.... So he called him, either because he excelled them in knowledge, and was greater than they, as Jacchiades; though not of their rank and order, which Daniel would have scorned to have been among, and reckoned of; so that this would have been no compliment, but a grief unto him; or because he was appointed by the king chief over them, and even over their governors;
[See comments on Daniel 2:48]:
because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee;
[See comments on Daniel 4:8];
and no secret troubleth thee; any ways perplexes thy mind to find it out; it is easy to thee to come at; it gives thee no manner of trouble to get knowledge of it; there is no secret hidden from thee; all is plain before thee, and with the utmost facility canst thou reveal it:
tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen; that is, the meaning of them; for the king remembered this his dream, and afterwards tells it very particularly:
and the interpretation of it; it may be rendered, "that is, the interpretation of it" (h); for that only was what the king wanted.
(h) ופשרה "id est, interpretationem ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Broughtonus, Michaelis.