Page 61 - 02 The Great Image

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
danger, be closely inspected. And to-day,

scarcely enough even of the ruins is left to

mark the spot where once stood the largest,

richest, and proudest city the world has ever

seen. Thus the ruin of great Babylon shows us

how accurately God will fulfill his word, and

makes the doubts of skepticism appear like

willful blindness.

“And after thee shall arise another kingdom

inferior to thee.” The use of the word kingdom

here, shows that kingdoms, and not particular

kings, are represented by the different parts of

this image; and hence when it was said to

Nebuchadnezzar, “Thou art this head of gold,”

although the personal pronoun was used, the

kingdom, not the person of the king, was

meant.