Menasseh ben Israel — Even yeqarah / Piedra gloriosa o de la estatua de Nebuchadnesar (1655)

NEBUCHADNEZZAR.

then by the Greeks, and ultimately by the Romans, so the blessed God did not reveal to Nebuchadnezzar more than what concerned the Israelite people and their particular history. However, that the Lord communicated these things in that time, in a degree of prophecy, to a pagan, achieving his greatest grandeur, does not lack mystery. For on one hand, when that clear light of prophecy was already being extinguished, so that Israel would not despair in this long and prolix captivity, the Lord gave them to understand all their future adversities so that, recognizing that they were being fulfilled little by little, they would also await, with greater constancy and infallible hope, the fulfillment