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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
would endure through all time, was to be

overthrown by another people. Yet Daniel

plainly and boldly made known this fact to the

king; and the king, so far from being offended,

fell upon his face before the prophet of God,

and offered him worship. Daniel doubtless

immediately countermanded the orders

which the king issued to pay him divine

honors. That Daniel had some communication

with the king which is not here recorded, is

evident from verse 47: “The king answered

unto Daniel,” etc. And it may be still further

inferred that Daniel labored to turn the king’s

feelings of reverence from himself to the God

of heaven, inasmuch as the king replies, “Of a

truth it is that your God is a God of gods and a

Lord of kings.”