The pronoun 'they' refers back to the 'toes' which represent 'kings'

and two things are said of them: 'they shall mingle', 'they shall not cleave

unto'.  It was the complaint of Ezra after the return from captivity, that

'the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands', and

that the princes and rulers had been chief in this trespass (Ezra 9:2).  When

Ezra heard this he said, among other things, 'should we again break Thy

commandment and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?'

(Ezra 9:14).  Thus, had Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh, and married

Pharaoh's daughter (1 Kings 3:1).  Out of thirty -three occurrences of the

Hebrew word chathan, thirty -two deal with marriage relationship.  These ten

kings will seek to strengthen their position and the kingdom of the beast by

marriage alliances, but there will be no 'cleaving' (Gen. 2:24; 2 Sam. 20:2).

The strange statement 'they shall mingle themselves with the Seed Of Men'

calls for attention.  Even though one nation differs in many features from

another, yet despite all differences of colour, creed, politics or religion,

they are nevertheless 'men', this strange expression therefore makes us

wonder whether the ten kings which form a part of the Satanic kingdom of the

time of the end are 'men' in the full acceptation of the term.  We know from

Genesis 6 that angelic beings had some affinity with the daughters of men,

and so filled the earth with corruption and violence that the deluge came.

The beast that bears the ten horns in Revelation 17 ascends out of the

bottomless pit, or the abyss, and is destined for perdition.  These ten kings

make war with the Lamb Himself, and the intermixture of the clay in the feet

of Nebuchadnezzar's image, seems to indicate the final irruption of fallen

spirit powers among the sons of men.  If this be so, it is no marvel that

such terrible judgments fall during the closing years of Gentile dominion,

for it will, in its closing phase, be the visible kingdom of Satan on earth.

The kingdoms of men, even though represented by gold and silver,

proved frail and passed away, but this kingdom is brittle, it has within it

no true cohesion, it reigns for a brief inglorious hour, and vanishes into

the air as the dust of a threshing floor.  Jeremiah's lamentations could be

repeated of the Gentiles.  Those who were comparable to fine gold, were now

esteemed as earthen vessels, and potter's clay.  Adam, made of the dust, is

reduced to dust  again, his dominion forfeited through the wiles of Satan.

Israel, who were chosen to be a kingdom of priests, became instead captives

to the heathen, and Gentile power which had started with such majesty, is at

last levelled to the dust through the same Satanic usurpation.  The only hope

for this poor world is in the sounding of the seventh trumpet, when the

kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ,

true King of kings and Lord of lords.  The reader should turn to the article,

Image of Daniel 2 (p. 317), and examine the chart that accompanies it.

The actual word 'festival' does not occur in the English version of the

Bible, but that is a matter rather of form than substance, for the word is

derived from the same root as that which gives us 'feast', and as every

reader knows, that word is of common occurrence in the Scriptures.  The term

'feast' does not necessarily refer to something to eat, although in most

cases this is an accompaniment.  Crabb thus differentiates between feast,

festival and holiday: