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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET
Stephen N. Haskell
“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.
royal family of the Ptolemies. History states
that Cæsar spent some nine months in Egypt,
which was unusual for this general, as his
rapid movements from place to place were
one secret of his success.
Cæsar as a general stood in a position to
accomplish for the fourth kingdom what
Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, and Alexander had
done for the former three, but we have no
record that he even acknowledged God as a
ruler of nations. He was fascinated and
corrupted by the queen of Egypt. The
seventeenth verse, while describing a
particular event in history, also symbolizes
the corrupting influence of Egypt whenever
the north came in touch with the south. Egypt
was a blight to men and nations alike, from the
