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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over

the affairs of the province of Babylon; but

Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

We have dwelt quite at length on the

interpretation of the dream, which Daniel

made known to the Chaldean monarch. From

this we must now return to the palace of

Nebuchadnezzar, and to Daniel, as he stands

in the presence of the king, having made

known to him the dream and the

interpretation thereof, while the courtiers and

the baffled soothsayers and astrologers wait

around in silent awe and wonder.

It might be expected that an ambitious

monarch, raised to the highest earthly throne,

and in the full flush of uninterrupted success,

would scarcely brook to be told that his

kingdom, which he no doubt fondly hoped