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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
subjection. And according to all human

calculation, they had good ground for their

feelings of security. Never, weighed in the

balance of any earthly probability, with the

means of warfare then known, could that city

be taken. Hence, they breathed as freely and

slept as soundly as though no foe were waiting

and watching for their destruction around

their beleaguered walls. But God had decreed

that the proud and wicked city should come

down from her throne of glory; and when he

speaks, what mortal arm can defeat his word?

In their very feeling of security lay the source

of their danger. Cyrus resolved to accomplish

by stratagem what he could not effect by

force; and learning of the approach of an

annual festival, in which the whole city would

be given up to mirth and revelry, he fixed upon