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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.
philosophy sat enthroned beside each other.
As the Encyclopedia Britannica states it, “In
Egypt a Greek aristocracy of office, birth, and
intellect existed side by side with a distinct
native life.”
Israel had once been miraculously delivered
from physical bondage in Egypt. They had
been warned against fleeing to Egypt for
protection in the days of Nebuchadnezzar at
the siege of Jerusalem. They may have escaped
the bondage of those earlier times, but they
were captured by the learning of the Greeks.
In the days of Ptolemy Soter, many Jews
flocked into Egypt, and those who remained in
Jerusalem and Palestine imbibed many of the
ideas of the Greeks.
