Page 11 - 14 HISTORY OF GREECE - CHAPTER 11B

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.

There was a priesthood, the duties of whose

members were to reveal the will of the gods.

The sacred feasts of Jehovah’s people were

replaced by the national games of the Greeks.

As the passover and the feast of tabernacles

called the Hebrew race together, and

promoted unity and a love of God, so the Greek

games gathered that people together,

promoting one common language, religion,

and law. God’s people met for spiritual

worship; the Greeks for physical or

intellectual enjoyment.

The history of Greece is the history of physical

and intellectual culture. The people admired

grace and beauty, and her literary minds

worshiped the intellect. Plato, the greatest of

Greek philosophers, lived four hundred years