MENE, or Mane; this Chaldæan Word signifies, he has numbered or counted. At a sacrilegious Feast which Belshazzar gave to his Courtiers and Concubines, he caused to be brought the sacred Vessels of the Temple of Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried to Babylon1. Then there appeared on the Wall like a Hand Writing these Words, Mene mene, tekel, upharsin. That is to say, God has numbered, has weighed, and divided. Nobody being able to explain the Meaning of these Words, Daniel was sent for, and told the King that God had numbered his Days, and that his Hour was come: That he had weighed his Actions, and found them too light; and lastly, that he had divided his Kingdom between the Medes and Persians. That Night Belshazzar was put to Death. See his Article2.
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