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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

can hide from thee.” Ezekiel 28:3. But above

all, our Lord recognized him as a prophet of

God, and bade his disciples understand the

predictions given through him for the benefit

of his church: “When ye therefore shall see the

abomination of desolation, spoken of by

Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place

(whoso readeth, let him understand), then let

them which be in Judea flee into the

mountains.” Matthew 24:15, 16.

Though we have a more minute account of his

early life than is recorded of that of any other

prophet, yet his birth and lineage are left in

complete obscurity, except that he was of the

royal line, probably of the house of David,

which had at this time become very

numerous. He first appears as one of the noble

captives of Judah, in the first year of

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, at the