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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
walls were huge gates of solid brass, which,

when closed and guarded, debarred all

entrance from the river bed to any and all of

the twenty-five streets that crossed the river;

and had they been thus closed at this time, the

soldiers of Cyrus might have marched into the

city along the river bed, and then marched out

again, for all that they would have been able to

accomplish toward the subjugation of the

place. But in the drunken revelry of that fatal

night, these river gates were all left open, and

the entrance of the Persian soldiers was not

perceived. Many a cheek would have paled

with terror, had they noticed the sudden going

down of the river, and understood its fearful

import. Many a tongue would have spread

wild alarm through the city, had they seen the

dark forms of their armed foe stealthily

threading their way to the citadel of their