144 but with a countenance and air of stern authority. He called aloud, and said, “Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit : let the beasts get away from un der it, and the fowls from its branches. Nevertheless, leave the stump of its roots in the earth even as if surrounded by a band of iron and brass, being overgrown with grass and wet with the dews of heaven.” There was then a change in the dream, and the angel, instead of speaking of the tree, seemed to be speaking of a mau, For he continued his command in the following terms— “Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heartbe given unto him i and let seven times pass over him. This mattér is by the decree of the Watchers, and the command by the word of the Holy Ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it even the basest of men.” - - - Nebuchadnezzar sent for all the wise men of Baby lon to interpret the foregoing dream, and he む認証。総
