Daniel — Chapter 4
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Verse 33
Let his hairs be changed.] In what manner King Nabuchodonosor was changed is hard to explicate. But omitting other opinions, the most probable & common is, that he was not depriued of his reasonable soule, nor the forme & parts of his bodie substantially changed from the nature of a man: but he was distracted loosing therof reason, & in his owne melancholie imagination & phantasie, thought that he was a beast. And therfore easily refused the conuersation of men, & comforted himselfe with beasts, went naked; his haire growing very much, & couering al his bodie, his nayles in vse extreme long, he went on his hands together with his feete, like fourfooted beasts, did eate grasse as an oxe, putting his mouth to the ground.