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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
person, of the greatest personal valor, and of
a mild and generous disposition. Had he lived
at any other age, a long and splendid career
would undoubtedly have been his. But it was
his ill-fortune to have to contend with one
who was an agent in the fulfillment of
prophecy; and no qualifications, natural or
acquired, could render him successful in the
unequal contest. Scarce was he warm upon
the throne, says the last-named historian, ere
he found his formidable enemy, Alexander, at
the head of the Greek soldiers, preparing to
dismount him from it.
The cause and particulars of the contest
between the Greeks and Persians we leave to
histories specially devoted to such matters.
Suffice it here to say that the deciding point
was reached on the field of Arbela, B. C. 331, in
