Parallel Verses King James Version Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. Darby Bible Translation Thou, O king, sawest, and behold, a great image. This image was mighty and its brightness excellent; it stood before thee, and its appearance was terrible. World English Bible You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its aspect was awesome. Young's Literal Translation Thou, O king, wast looking, and lo, a certain great image. This image is mighty, and its brightness excellent; it is standing over-against thee, and its appearance is terrible. Daniel 2:31 Parallel Commentary King James Translators' Notessawest: Chaldee, wast seeing Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. [1] great image The monarchy-vision. Nebuchadnezzar's dream, as interpreted by Daniel, gives the course and end of "the times of the Gentiles" Lk 21:24. See Scofield Note: "Rev 16.19" that is, of Gentile world-empire. The four metals composing the image are explained as symbolizing Dan 2:38-40 four empires, not necessarily possessing the inhabited earth, but able to do Song (Dan 2:38), and fulfilled in Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece (under Alexander), and Rome. The latter power is seen divided, first into two (the legs), fulfilled in the Eastern and Western Roman empires, and then into ten (the toes) See Scofield Note: "Dan 7.26. As a whole, the image gives the imposing outward greatness and splendour of the Gentile world-power. The smiting Stone Dan 2:34,35 destroys the Gentile world-system (in its final form) by a sudden and irremediable blow, not by the gradual processes of conversion and assimilation; and then, and not before, does the Stone become a mountain which fills "the whole earth." (Cf. Dan 7:26,27). Such a destruction of the Gentile monarchy-system did not occur at the first advent of Christ. On the contrary, He was put to death by the sentence of an officer of the fourth empire, which was then at the zenith of its power. Since the crucifixion the Roman empire has followed the course marked out in the vision, but Gentile world dominion still continues, and the crushing blow is still suspended. The detail of the end-time is given in Dan 7.1-28, and Re 13.-19. It is important to see (1) that Gentile world-power is to end in a sudden catastrophic judgment (see "Armageddon," Rev 16:14 19:21). (2) that it is immediately followed by the kingdom of heaven, and that the God of the heavens does not set up His kingdom till after the destruction of the Gentile world-system. It is noteworthy that Gentile world-dominion begins and ends with a great image. Dan 2:31 Rev 13:14,15.Daniel 2:31 Parallel Commentaries Library Editor's PrefaceProfessor Maspero does not need to be introduced to us. His name is well known in England and America as that of one of the chief masters of Egyptian science as well as of ancient Oriental history and archaeology. Alike as a philologist, a historian, and an archaeologist, he occupies a foremost place in the annals of modern knowledge and research. He possesses that quick apprehension and fertility of resource without which the decipherment of ancient texts is impossible, and he also possesses a sympathy … G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 1 The Scattering of the People The Fiery Furnace The Wicked Husbandmen. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream The First Great Group of Parables. The Necessity of Regeneration, Argued from the Immutable Constitution of God. Letters of St. Bernard Lii. Concerning Hypocrisy, Worldly Anxiety, Watchfulness, and his Approaching Passion. Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus. Cross References Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Daniel 4:36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellers and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. Habakkuk 1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 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