Daniel 4:33 (WEB)
This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
Fathers and councils · 4
Cyril of Jerusalem
“He had claws as a lion; for he was a ravager of the Sanctuary.” — editor's note: R.C. “of birds.” See Dan. iv. 33.
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Jerome
“Nebuchadnezzar also, the king of Babylon, recovered his reason, even after he had been made like the beasts in body and in heart and had been compelled to live with the brutes in the wilderness.” — editor's note: Dan. iv. 33–37.
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Tertullian
“Thus that Babylonish king, after being exiled from human form in his seven years’ squalor and neglect, because he had offended the Lord; by the bodily immolation of patience not only recovered his kingdom, but—what is more to be desired by a man—made satisfaction to God.” — editor's note: Dan. iv. 33–37. Comp. de Pæn. c. 12. [I have removed an ambiguity by slightly touching the text here.]
Read the whole comment“…them, and vouchsafing to Hezekiah’s tears an extension of his life, and restoring his kingly state to the monarch of Babylon after his complete repentance; that mercy, too, which conceded to the devotion of the people the son of Saul when about to die, and gave free forgiveness to David on his confessing his sins…” — editor's note: Dan. iv. 33.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.