Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 2:31

31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold, a great image : this great image whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee b, and the form thereof was terrible .

Not a painted superficial image, but a massy one▪ a Statue in mans shape, great, splendid, majestical, thus they were wont to represent of old, great Emperors, and Empires, and worshipped them as gods, called here an Image, and in a dream all which is in shew, and shadow rather then in substance, and therefore vanishing. And that upright, of a prodigious height, noting the grand[illegible: 1 letter]ur of those Monarchies.

Government is to be feared▪ f[illegible: 1 letter]ar to whom fear, a[illegible: 1 letter]d [illegible: 1 letter]o[illegible: 1 letter]our to whom ho[illegible: 3 letters]r, also some had rather be [illegible: 2 letters]ared then loved. Some say the Image was so po[illegible: 1 letter]ited, that the face looked toward the King, and [illegible: 1 letter]hus it might trouble and terrifie him.

Marginal references: Chald. wast seeing.