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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.

her capital was by divine appointment. They

were at the gateway of the nations, and might

have held the balance of power. Had they held

aloft the sword of the Spirit, all nations would

have bowed before their kings and paid

tribute into their treasury. It was so in the

days of Solomon; it might have been repeated

in the days of Greek history.

Alexander’s act of reverence when he met the

company of priests at Jerusalem should have

been an object lesson to all Judea of what God

by his Spirit would cause all nations to do. But

so blinded by Greek teaching were those

Jewish leaders, even at that time, that they

failed to see this. Instead of flocking to

Alexandria for the wisdom of Greece, nations

should have sent their youth to schools of the