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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.

record something which corresponds to the

skeleton in the human body, and the flesh and

organs of life need to be put in. These nations

which were then in existence were a shelter,

perhaps, a scaffolding, built about God’s

people, offering them another opportunity to

work. The Spirit of God was working in the

courts of monarchs as faithfully as ever. At the

same time the controversy between truth and

error never for a moment abated.

It might seem to the casual observer that

Greece was not in reality a ruling power in the

sense that Babylon and Medo-Persia were

universal monarchies. Let us see: From the

first it has been noted that Greece was an

intellectual ruler rather than a power which

held the bodies of men in slavery. If we may