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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
their profession made it incumbent on them

to do.

2. It was remarkable that Daniel and his

companions, so lately pronounced by the king

ten times better than all his magicians and

astrologers, should not sooner have been

consulted, or, rather, should not have been

consulted at all, in this matter. But there was a

providence in this. Just as the dream was held

from the king, so he was unaccountably held

from appealing to Daniel for a solution of the

mystery. For had he called on Daniel at first,

and had he at once made known the matter,

the magicians would not have been brought to

the test. But God would give the heathen

systems of the Chaldeans the first chance. He

would let them try, and ignominiously fail, and

confess their utter incompetency, even under