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Daniel 5:21Dan.5.21

And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

KJV

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

il fut chassé du milieu des enfants des hommes, son coeur devint semblable à celui des bêtes, et sa demeure fut avec les ânes sauvages; on lui donna comme aux boeufs de l'herbe à manger, et son corps fut trempé de la rosée du ciel, jusqu'à ce qu'il reconnût que le Dieu suprême domine sur le règne des hommes et qu'il le donne à qui il lui plaît.

KJV

And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)

    quod potestatem haberet Altissimus in regno hominum: et quemcunque voluerit, suscitabit super illud (Dan. V, 21) . Et per Jeremiam: Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Haec dicetis ad dominos vestros: Ego feci terram et homines, et jumenta quae sunt super faciem terrae, i…

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