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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
which the Grecians, though only one to

twenty in number as compared with the

Persians, were entirely victorious; and

Alexander thenceforth became absolute lord

of the Persian empire to the utmost extent that

it was ever possessed by any of its own kings.

“And another third kingdom of brass shall

bear rule over all the earth,” said the prophet.

So few and brief are the inspired words which

involved in their fulfillment a change of the

world’s rulers. In the ever-changing political

kaleidoscope, Grecia now comes into the field

of vision, to be, for a time, the all-absorbing

object of attention, as the third of what are

called the great universal empires of the earth.

After the fatal battle which decided the fate of

the empire, Darius still endeavored to rally the

shattered remnants of his army, and make a