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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.

that Gabriel gave specific instruction

concerning the name to be given the babe of

Zacharias and Elizabeth, for although there

was once a time when every child in Israel was

named under the inspiration of the Spirit, the

Israelites had now chosen Greece in place of

God.

The whole Jewish teaching was Hellenized;

and when John the Baptist was born, his

mother and father were commanded to leave

the city of Jerusalem, and educate the child in

the desert, away from the influence of the

schools and society of the Jews. Christ himself

never entered the schools of his day because

of the mixture of the truth of God with heathen

philosophy. Greek teaching exalted nature;

but the Son of God could not hear the voice of