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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

INTRODUCTION

THAT the book of Daniel was written by the

person whose name it bears, there is no

reason to doubt. Ezekiel, who was

contemporary with Daniel, bears testimony,

through the spirit of prophecy, to his piety and

uprightness, ranking him in this respect with

Noah and Job: “Or if I send a pestilence into

that land, and pour out my fury upon it in

blood, to cut off from it man and beast; though

Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith

the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son

nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own

souls by their righteousness.” Ezekiel 14:19,

20. His wisdom also, even at that early day,

had become proverbial, as appears from the

same writer. To the prince of Tyrus he was

directed of the Lord to say, “Behold, thou art

wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they