Chapter 82

¹ Then it says: “And in the grass outside and in the dew of heaven he will lodge, and seven seasons will be changed upon him, until he knows that God the Most High rules over the kingdom of men.”

² Now some reckon the seven seasons to be seven years; but others, seven seasons changing by the quarter-year—for the year has four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and autumn—so that seven seasons were then changed upon the king.

³ And his saying, “Leave the stock of the roots of the tree in the earth,” makes plain that he was again, according to the will of God, to be restored to his own rule.

⁴ For this came about for the king’s instruction, so that, no longer being haughty, he might thereafter be able to say: “And all those who walk in pride he is able to humble.”