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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
Here is brought out another of the

commendable traits of Nebuchadnezzar’s

character. Unlike some rulers, who fill up the

present with folly and debauchery without

regard to the future, he thought forward upon

the days to come, with an anxious desire to

know with what events they should be filled.

His object in this was, doubtless, that he might

the better know how to make a wise

improvement of the present. For this reason

God gave him this dream, which we must

regard as a token of the divine favor toward

the king, as there were many other ways in

which the truth involved in this matter could

have been brought out, equally to the honor of

God’s name, and the good of his people both at

that time and through subsequent

generations. Yet God would not work for the

king independently of his own people; hence,