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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
with the traitors. They urged Darius to

mount on horseback for a more speedy flight.

Upon his refusing to do this, they gave him

several mortal wounds, and left him dying in

his cart, while they mounted their steeds and

rode away.

When Alexander came up, he beheld only the

lifeless form of the Persian king. As he gazed

upon the corpse, he might have learned a

profitable lesson of the instability of human

fortune. Here was a man who, but a few

months before, possessing many noble and

generous qualities, was seated upon the

throne of universal empire. Disaster,

overthrow, and desertion had come suddenly

upon him. His kingdom had been conquered,

his treasure seized, and his family reduced to

captivity. And now, brutally slain by the hand