180 thee! And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dweiling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know, that the Most IIgh ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomosoever He will.” The punishment of his pride and impiety, which had been threatened a year before, was then instantly executed. Alarmed and agitated by the dreadful seatence which an invisible being had, at that moment, pronounced upon him, and by its resemblance to Dániel's interpretation of his dream, his reason left him. God sent upon him a peculiar kind of derangement of mind; possibly that disease in which the patient supposes himself to be some animal, and imitates its actions. So Neduciadnezzar apparently thought himself an ox; and though his friends would undoubtedly place him under the care of keepers, yet he escaped and fled into the fields. There he lived upon grass and raw vegetables, and remained in the open air, exposed to the sun, and dew, and rain, “till his hair grew like an eagle's
