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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
nor subdued, is not a fact of sufficient

strength or importance to condemn the

expression of the prophet, or to falsify the

prophecy.

In 606 B. C. Babylon came in contact with the

people of God, when Nebuchadnezzar

conquered Jerusalem and led Judah into

captivity. It comes at this point, consequently,

into the field of prophecy, at the end of the

Jewish theocracy.

The character of this empire is indicated by

the nature of the material composing that

portion of the image by which it was

symbolized — the head of gold. It was the

golden kingdom of a golden age. Babylon, its

metropolis, towered to a height never reached

by any of its successors. Situated in the garden

of the East; laid out in a perfect square sixty