John Trapp on Daniel 4:16

Ver. 16. Let his heart be changed] i. e. Obbruteſcat, nihil humanum ſapiat: a fearful judgement, and yet ſuch as reprobates are uſually delivered up to, Rom. 1.24.

And let a beaſts heart be given him] Let his Phantaſy and appetite he ſo changed, that upon a ſtrong imagination that he is a beaſt, he may have affections carrying him in all things to do accordingly. Little is ſaid of this in humane hiſtory. The Chaldee Chronicles are loſt. Alpheus (as he is cited by Euſebius) briefly ſaith,Lib. 9. de [illegible: 1 letter]iaepar. Ev. that Nebuchadnezzar rapt with madneſſe, preſently vaniſhed out of the company of men, after that he had firſt foretold the overthrow of the Chaldaean Monarchy. The Chaldaeans in Abidenus fragments record, that he was blaſted by ſome god, Brought. Conc. of Script. and ſpake of Babel's fall by the Perſians.

And let ſeven times to paſſe over him] i. e. Seven years; like as Solomon's Temple, that ſeven years work of many thouſands, was by him deſtroyed.