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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
Great endeavored to rebuild it; but after

employing ten thousand men two months to

clear away the rubbish, he died from excessive

drunkenness and debauchery, and the work

was suspended. In the year 294 B. C., Seleucus

Nicator built the city of New Babylon in its

neighborhood, and took much of the material

and many of the inhabitants, of the old city, to

build up and people the new. Now almost

exhausted of inhabitants, neglect and decay

were telling fearfully upon the ancient city.

The violence of Parthian princes hastened its

ruin. About the end of the fourth century, it

was used by the Persian kings as an inclosure

for wild beasts. At the end of the twelfth

century, according to a celebrated traveler,

the few remaining ruins of Nebuchadnezzar’s

palace were so full of serpents and venomous

reptiles that they could not, without great