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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
brass, that it might not be wholly given to

decay, but that the source of future growth

and greatness might be left. The day is coming

when the wicked shall be cut down, and no

such residue of hope be left them. No mercy

will be mingled with their punishment. They

shall be destroyed both root and branch.

6. An important key to prophetic

interpretation. Verse 16 “Let seven times pass

over him,” said the decree. This is plain, literal

narration; hence the time is here to be

understood literally. How long a period is

denoted? This may be determined by

ascertaining how long Nebuchadnezzar, in

fulfillment of this prediction, was driven out to

have his dwelling with the beasts of the field;

and this, Josephus informs us, was seven

years. A “time,” then, denotes one year. When