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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
when they become so far connected with the

people of God that mention of them becomes

necessary to make the records of sacred

history complete. When this was the case with

Babylon, it was, from the standpoint of the

prophet, the great and overtowering object in

the political world. In his eye, it necessarily

eclipsed all else; and he would naturally speak

of it as a kingdom having rule over all the

earth. So far as we know, all provinces or

countries against which Babylon did move in

the height of its power, were subdued by its

arms. In this sense, all were in its power; and

this fact will explain the somewhat

hyperbolical language of verse 38. That there

were some portions of territory and

considerable numbers of people unknown to

history, and outside the pale of civilization as

it then existed, which were neither discovered