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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
shown (see chapter 7) under the form of

cruel and ravenous wild beasts.

But how admirably adapted was this

representation to convey a great and needful

truth to the mind of Nebuchadnezzar. Besides

delineating the progress of events through the

whole course of time for the benefit of his

people, God would show Nebuchadnezzar the

utter emptiness and worthlessness of earthly

pomp and glory. And how could this be more

impressively done than by an image

commencing with the most precious of metals,

and continually descending to the baser, till

we finally have the coarsest and crudest of

materials, — iron mingled with the miry clay,

— the whole then dashed to pieces, and made

like the empty chaff, no good thing in it, but

altogether lighter than vanity, and finally