Sunday, September 9, 2012

I think Nebuchadnezzar was an archetype…

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His dream;

A general description of the personified image is given from head to toe: whose head was made of fine gold, a chest and arms of silver, a belly of brass,[v.32] legs of iron, and feet made partly of iron and partly of clay.[v.33] The vision is then continued by relating the Vision of stone, its characterization: "not cut by hands", and its action that causes a dispersion of the statue’s metals.[v.34] The stone grows to fill the whole Earth.[v.35] Thus concludes the presentation of the dream followed by its interpretation, by the formula: “this is the dream”.[v.36][15]

was symbolic of his fear of losing his talents or the active parts of himself, I think was misinterpreted by Daniel for the purposes of his people.  I couldn’t help but think of The Colossus of Rhodes and later discovered through reading its connection to Nebuchadnezzar’s  dream.  I did have an immediate response to Daniel’s dream interpretation in that it was erroneous.  It was all clear to me at the time.