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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
from his mind that his anger at their

duplicity should abate, and he would either

recall the dream himself, or be unsolicitous

whether it were made known and interpreted

or not. And while we cannot justify the

extreme measures to which he resorted,

dooming them to death, and their houses to

destruction, we can but feel a hearty sympathy

with him in his condemnation of a class of

miserable impostors. The severity of his

sentence was probably attributable more to

the customs of those times than to any

malignity on the part of the king. Yet it was a

bold and desperate step. Consider who these

were who thus incurred the wrath of the king.

They were numerous, opulent, and influential

sects. Moreover, they were the learned and

cultivated classes of those times; yet the king

was not so wedded to his false religion as to