Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 4:3

3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders ! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation .

These two words signifie in their roots, admiration and astonishment; it seems these works of God had that impression upon this King; a great cause whereof was his ignorance of the true God, together with his own excessive Pride and Epicurisme. God by this following dream, and Daniels instruction, had told him his fate, and that no Kingdom but God's Kingdom, was Everlasting, which he had told him once afore this, Dan. 2.44.

This Confession of the King was upon conviction, and it looks somewhat like repentance, but the sequel proves him to be no changling, though God made prodigious mutations in his Kingdom, and in the form of his person, as ye see, verse 31, 32. of this Chapter; he was Metamorphoz'd to a monstrous beast, and then to a man again, and yet no convert.

Marginal references: chap. 2.44.