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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.

Ptolemy Philopater did even worse things, for

in self-esteem he entered Jerusalem, and

attempted to profane the temple by himself

offering sacrifice. The restraint offered by the

priests so incensed him that he began war

against them, and history states that between

forty and sixty thousand Jews, who then lived

in Egypt, fell by the sword. Those Jews who

sought Egypt, either for protection or for the

advantages of her schools and libraries,

withdrew from the sheltering hand of their

God, and the time came sooner or later when

they felt the wrath of the enemy. Through all

these struggles the nation whom God had

chosen might have stood as a beacon on a hill,

instead of being trampled upon by every army

in its marches between Egypt and Syria. Nay,

more, the location of the Jews in Palestine and