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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
with stripes, fled in this condition to the

besieged, apparently burning with desire to

be revenged on Darius for his great cruelty in

thus mutilating him. In this way he won the

confidence of the Babylonians till they at

length made him chief commander of their

forces; whereupon he betrayed the city into

the hands of his master. And that they might

ever after be deterred from rebellion, Darius

impaled three thousand of those who had

been most active in the revolt, took away the

brazen gates of the city, and beat down the

walls from two hundred cubits to fifty cubits.

This was the commencement of its

destruction. By this act, it was left exposed to

the ravages of every hostile band. Xerxes, on

his return from Greece, plundered the temple

of Belus of its immense wealth, and then laid

the lofty structure in ruins. Alexander the