Daniel — Chapter 5
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
The ruine of this Baltassar happened in the 17. and last yeare of his reigne: when Daniel was neere an hundred yeares.
Verse 11
Al progenitours are commonly called the fathers of their ofspring: so Nabuchodonosor is called the father of Baltasar, being his grand father.
Verse 21
His imagination that he was a beast made him forsake the companie of men, and to dwel amongst wilde beasts. ch. 4.
Verse 30
The Medes being at this time in the siege of Babylon, tooke their opportunitie to assault it this night, when the King and most part of the citie were drunke.