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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
interpretation thereof, would they not also

be able to make known the dream itself when

it had gone from the king? — Certainly, if there

was any virtue in their pretended intercourse

with the other world. There was therefore

nothing unjust in Nebuchadnezzar’s demand

that they should make known his dream. And

when they declared (verse 11) that none but

the gods whose dwelling was not with flesh

could make known the king’s matter, it was a

tacit acknowledgment that they had no

communication with these gods, and knew

nothing beyond what human wisdom and

discernment could reveal. For this cause, the

king was angry and very furious. He saw that

he and all his people were being made the

victims of deception. He accused them (verse

9) of endeavoring to dally along till the “time

be changed,” or till the matter had so passed