Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 4:10

10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed, I saw, and behold , a tree in the midst the earth, and the height thereof was great.

Because the fancy, and imagination is in the head; and he calls them Visions or Seeings, because eyes and sight are attributed to the understanding, and the thing seemed visible to him, as if he beheld it with his eyes.

Those that write of the Language of the East tell us, that a Tree denotes some excellent man. Thus the Prophet Ezekiel, chap. 31. throughout describes the King of Assyria, and Pharaoh King of Egypt, in their flourish, height and great fall, comparing them to huge Cedars.

Marginal references: Chald. I was seeing.; Ezek. 31.3.