Page 46 - 02 The Great Image

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
excellency,” sat this city, fit capital of that

kingdom which constituted the golden head of

this great historic image.

Such was Babylon, with Nebuchadnezzar, in

the prime of life, bold, vigorous, and

accomplished, seated upon its throne, when

Daniel entered its impregnable walls to serve

a captive for seventy years in its gorgeous

palaces. There the children of the Lord,

oppressed more than cheered by the glory and

prosperity of the land of their captivity, hung

their harps on the willows of the sparkling

Euphrates, and wept when they remembered

Zion.

And there commenced the captive state of the

church in a still broader sense; for, ever since

that time, the people of God have been in

subjection to, and more or less oppressed by,