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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.
strong; yet shall another exceed him in
strength and have dominion; a grand
dominion shall be his dominion.”
The Ptolemy who gained Egypt was surnamed
Soter, or Saviour, and on his death he was
succeeded by his son, Ptolemy Philadelphus.
The Seleucus who gained the three divisions
was succeeded by his son Antiochus Soter,
who was killed by the Gauls in Asia Minor. The
third in the line of Greco-Syriac kings was
Antiochus Theos, who was reigning in Syria
while Ptolemy Philadelphus was on the
Egyptian throne.
There is, however, something aside from the
mere succession of kings which is worthy of
notice. Gabriel gave Daniel the framework of
the history of Greece. We have in the inspired
