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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
stand for his kingdom and his rights. But he

could not gather, out of all the host of his

recently so numerous and well-appointed

army, a force with which he deemed it prudent

to hazard another engagement with the

victorious Grecians. Alexander pursued him

on the wings of the wind. Time after time did

Darius barely elude the grasp of his swiftly

following foe. At length two traitors, Bessus

and Nabarzanes, seized the unfortunate

prince, shut him up in a close cart, and fled

with him as their prisoner toward Bactria. It

was their purpose, if Alexander pursued them,

to purchase their own safety by delivering up

their king, Hereupon Alexander, learning of

Darius’s dangerous position in the hands of

the traitors, immediately put himself with the

lightest part of his army upon a forced pursuit.

After several days’ hard march, he came up