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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
— No longer than the antediluvians were

suffered, after Noah had entered the ark, or

the Sodomites, after Lot had departed from

their polluted and polluting presence. If only

ten righteous persons could have been found

in Sodom, the multitude of its wicked

inhabitants would, for their sakes, have been

spared. Yet the wicked will despise, ridicule,

and oppress the very ones on whose account

it is that they are still permitted the enjoyment

of life and all its blessings.

VERSE 25. Then Arioch brought in Daniel

before the king in haste, and said thus unto

him, I have found a man of the captives of

Judah, that will make known unto the king the

interpretation.

It is ever a characteristic of ministers and

courtiers to ingratiate themselves with their