Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 4:8

8 ¶ But at the last Daniel came in before me whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods , and before him I told the dream, saying,

Whether sent for by the King, or brought in by another appears not, but he was last, that it might appear he had the true understanding of these secrets: for if he had come first before the rest had done their best in trying all their skill, in vain they would have said, they knew as well as he, and so God would not have had the glory, but now its plain the spirit of God in the Prophet did all.

He speaks in the plural like an Idolater, and because he calls him Belteshazzar according to the name of his God, i. e. Bel or Baal, by the Spirit of God he means the Spirit of divination, or Prophesie of future contingent things which God only knows, and reveals by his Spirit as he pleaseth, which none of the Magicians were indued with.

Marginal references: chap. 1.7.; Or, of the holy God, Josh. 24.19. So Gr.