 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds  The book of Bible history. Gradation 1-3 - Page 208by Charles Baker - 1855Full view - About this book
 | John Jewel - Apologetics - 1848 - 610 pages
...and astonied him with deadly madness. " He was driven from men, and did eat Dan. IT. 33. grass as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." He imagined that he was an ox, that he had hoof,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1849 - 440 pages
...kingdom is departed from thee." — "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar ; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." It is by no means agreed in what this extraordinary change consisted, or how long it continued. The... | |
 | 548 pages
...we shall find this new head, forfeits as speedily as His predecessors, his place and dominion, " for he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." There is nothing left to be proved. " Thou art weighed m the balances and art found wanting," is the... | |
 | Andrew Linzey, Dorothy Yamamoto - Nature - 1998 - 322 pages
...inordinate pride in his own achievements: The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding... | |
 | Russell R. Standish, Colin D. Standish - History - 1998 - 294 pages
...and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. Daniel 4:3 1-33 The terrible conditions that he experienced eventually brought him to the realization... | |
 | Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson - Literature and history - 1998 - 480 pages
...tyrants is foretold in biblical prophecies like Daniel 4 where at the height of his glory Nebuchadnezzar "was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws" (Dan. 4:33). In King Killing George III is compared to "a golden image, like that of Nebuchadnezzar."... | |
 | David Stern, Mark Jay Mirsky - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 382 pages
...again, the learned auditors will remember the lines of Daniel about Nebuchadnezzar's metamorphosis, "His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." Poor Nebuchadnezzar. He is both holy and cursed.... | |
 | Heinrich Zimmer - Philosophy - 1999 - 364 pages
...and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 338 pages
...Nebuchadnezzar as described in Daniel 4: 33: 'The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws'. Drawing upon a rich iconographical tradition that extends from Cranach and Durer to John Hamilton Mortimer,17... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1999 - 468 pages
...century BC, described in the Book of Daniel as punished by being 'driven from men', after which he 'did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws' (4.33). 3. conceive and meditate of pleasant things: I have not found a source for this quotation.... | |
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