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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

is added the swiftness of the king of birds, is

taken to represent the kingdom of which the

city of Babylon was the capital. Before

Babylon was known as an independent

kingdom, while it was still a subject province

of Assyria, Habakkuk, a prophet of Israel, had

been given a view of its work which shows the

force of the symbol of a lion with eagle’s

wings. Speaking to Israel, he tells them of a

work so wonderful that they will not believe it

when told. “Lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that

bitter and hasty nation, which shall march

through the breadth of the land, to possess the

dwelling places that are not theirs. They are

terrible and dreadful.... Their horses also are

swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce

than the evening wolves.... They shall fly as the

eagle that hasteth to eat. They shall come all