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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
fordable, and in the darkness of the night

explore their way beneath the walls, and press

on to the palace of the king, where they were

to meet, surprise the palace, slay the guards,

and capture or slay the king. When the water

was turned into the lake mentioned above, the

river soon became fordable, and the soldiers

detailed for that purpose followed its channel

into the heart of the city of Babylon.

But all this would have been in vain, had not

the whole city, on that eventful night, given

themselves over to the most reckless

carelessness and presumption, a state of

things upon which Cyrus calculated largely for

the carrying out of his purpose. For on each

side of the river, through the entire length of

the city, were walls of great height, and of

equal thickness with the outer walls. In these