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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.

before Christ, and his teachings have led the

thoughts of writers in every age since then.

The Jews mingled the teachings of the Bible

with the philosophy of Plato, and that formed

the traditions of men, against which Christ so

often warned his followers. The false

philosophy, and the “science falsely so called”

of Paul’s time, was Greek teaching, which

breathed the spirit of Plato and his students.

Plato’s writings have replaced the Bible with

many, and a large number of modern writers,

both of prose and poetry, recognize him as

their intellectual leader. The philosophy of

this man was often good, and he admired

truth; but the error lay in admiring or

assenting to truth, and failing to live it out.

His followers came under the condemnation