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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
in idleness. “But,” says the historian, “he saw

a far-off land, where a glory was to be won

which would gain a new charm in the eyes of

his countrymen by the romance and mystery

which hung upon the scene. Egypt, the land of

the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies, would be a

noble field for new triumphs.” — White’s

History of France, p. 469.

But while still broader visions of glory opened

before the eyes of Bonaparte in those Eastern

historic lands, covering not Egypt only, but

Syria, Persia, Hindustan, even to the Ganges

itself, he had no difficulty in persuading the

Directory that Egypt was the vulnerable point

through which to strike at England by

intercepting her Eastern trade. Hence, on the

pretext above mentioned, the Egyptian

campaign was undertaken.