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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
having sat through one long drinking spree,

he was immediately invited to another, when,

after drinking to each of the twenty guests

present, he twice drank full, says history,

incredible as it may seem, the Herculean cup

containing six of our quarts. He thereupon fell

down, seized with a violent fever, of which he

died eleven days later, in May or June, B. C.

323, while yet he stood only at the threshold

of mature life, in the thirty-second year of his

age.

The progress of the Grecian empire we need

not stop to trace here, since its distinguishing

features will claim more particular notice

under other prophecies. Daniel thus continues

in his interpretation of the great image: —

VERSE 40. And the fourth kingdom shall be

strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in