Dan 5:6, 7:28 | JFB | STEP | 6. countenance-- literally, "brightness," that is, his bright look. joints of his loins-- "the vertebræ of his back" [Gesenius].

‏ Daniel 5:6

6. countenance--literally, "brightness," that is, his bright look.

joints of his loins--"the vertebræ of his back" [Gesenius].

‏ Daniel 7:28

28. cogitations ... troubled me--showing that the Holy Spirit intended much more to be understood by Daniel's words than Daniel himself understood. We are not to limit the significance of prophecies to what the prophets themselves understood (1Pe 1:11, 12).