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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.

ruleth in the kingdoms of men, and Antiochus

was brought to realize that there was another

power on earth as well as in heaven.

In verse 14 the voice of the fourth beast is

heard; Rome placed itself on the side of the

helpless king, and Antiochus found his

ambition thwarted. The life of the Greek

kingdom is spent. There were still many years

of struggle, but it was a struggle for existence,

not for added territory. But what Greece

would not gain in territory she did gain as a

teacher of nations, and although she finally

lost all territorial supremacy, though like the

kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, the tree was cut

down, yet the roots remain unto this day.

More than once as an intellectual power

Greece has arisen. Throughout the intellectual