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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
up all against the realm of Grecia. Never
before had there been such a levy of men for
warlike purposes; never has there been since.
His army, according to Herodotus, who lived
in that age, consisted of five million two
hundred and eighty-three thousand two
hundred and twenty men (5,283,220). And
not content with stirring up the East alone, he
enlisted the Carthaginians of the West in his
service, who took the field with an additional
army of three hundred thousand men, raising
his entire force to the almost fabulous number
of over five million and a half. As Xerxes
looked over that vast concourse, he is said to
have wept at the thought that in a hundred
years from that time not one of all those men
would be left alive.
