Because of this "he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws" (v. 33) This sudden humbling of one of the world's most powerful men to a deranged lunatic was such a dramatic event as to call for the parable about the falling of the morning star from heaven to earth.
Kwa sababu hii"alifukuzwa mbali na wanadamu, akala majani kama ng’ombe, mwili wake ulilowa maji kwa umande wa mbinguni, hata nywele zake zikakua, zikawa kama manyoya ya tai, na kucha zake kama kucha za ndege"(mst. 33). Kutwezwa huku ghafla kwa mmoja wa watu wa ulimwengu wenye nguvu sana na kutiwa wazimu lilikuwa ni tukio lisilotazamiwa ikahitajika mithali ya kuhusu kuanguka kwa nyota ya Asubuhi toka mbinguni kuja chini.