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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

after the events themselves had transpired.

This shift, however, is not now available; for

every succeeding century has borne

additional evidence to the truthfulness of the

prophecy, and we are just now, in our own

day, approaching the climax of its fulfilment.

The personal history of Daniel reaches to a

date a few years subsequent to the subversion

of the Babylonian kingdom by the Medes and

Persians. He is supposed to have died at

Shushan, or Susa, in Persia, about the year B.

C. 530, aged nearly ninety-four years; his age

being the probable reason why he returned

not to Judea with other Hebrew captives,

under the proclamation of Cyrus (Ezra 1:1), B.

C. 536, which marked the close of the seventy

years’ captivity.