Daniel 2:30

30 Y no es porque yo sea más sabio que los demás que conozco el secreto de su sueño, sino porque Dios quiere que su Majestad entienda lo que estaba en su corazón cuando soñó.

Daniel 2:30 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 2:30

But as for me
As to the part I have in this affair, I can ascribe nothing to myself; it is all owing to the God of heaven, the recovery of the dream, and its interpretation: this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than
any living:
not that he thought or affirmed that he had more wisdom than any man living, as the Vulgate Latin version and others suggest; but as the king might think he had, by revealing this secret to him, and that it was owing to that; but that he had not such wisdom, and, whatever he had, which was the gift of God, it was not through that, or any sagacity and penetration into things he was master of, superior to others, that it was revealed to him; and therefore would not have it placed to any such account; this he said in great modesty, and in order to set the king right, and that God might have all the glory: but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the
king;
meaning not only himself, and his companions concerned with him, that they might be promoted to honour and dignity, but the whole body of the Jews in captivity, with which they were in connection; that they might meet with more civil and kind treatment, for the sake of the God they worshipped, who revealed this secret to the king: or, "but that they might make known" ^F24; the three Persons in the Godhead, as some; the angels, as others; the ministers of God, as Aben Ezra: or rather it may be rendered impersonally, but that the interpretation might be made known to the king
^F25 as by the Vulgate Latin, as it follows: and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart;
both what they were, which were forgotten, and the meaning of them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (Nwedwhy-Nhl) "sed ut notificarent", Pagninus, Montanus; "indicent", Vatablus.
F25 "Sed ut interpretatio regi manifesta fieret", V. L. "eo fine ut indicetur", De Dieu.

Daniel 2:30 In-Context

28 pero hay un Dios en el cielo, quien revela secretos y le ha dado a conocer al rey Nabucodonosor lo que ocurrirá en el futuro. Ahora le diré lo que soñó y las visiones que vio mientras estaba acostado en su cama.

29 »Mientras su Majestad dormía, soñó sobre sucesos futuros. Aquel que da a conocer los secretos le ha mostrado a usted lo que ocurrirá.

30 Y no es porque yo sea más sabio que los demás que conozco el secreto de su sueño, sino porque Dios quiere que su Majestad entienda lo que estaba en su corazón cuando soñó.

31 »En su visión, su Majestad vio frente a sí una enorme estatua resplandeciente de un hombre; daba terror verla.

32 La cabeza de la estatua era de oro fino. El pecho y los brazos eran de plata, el vientre y los muslos de bronce,