The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
⛓ Read Daniel 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will' (cf. 4:25, 4:32) is the Danielic doctrine that earthly dominion is conferred by God, directly underwriting 'ordained by God' and 'a servant of God.'
High confidence'The Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will' directly grounds the claim that Pilate's authority is given 'from above.' Strong conceptual coherence; paired with Dan 2:21.
Medium confidence