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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
used in symbolic prophecy, it would, of

course, denote symbolic or prophetic time. A

“time” would then denote a prophetic year, or,

each day standing for a year, three hundred

and sixty literal years. There will be occasion

to refer to this fact under chapter 7:25.

7. The interest that the holy ones, or the

angels, take in human affairs. They are

represented as demanding this dealing with

Nebuchadnezzar. They see, as mortals never

can see, how unseemly a thing is pride in the

human heart. And they approve of, and

sympathize with, the decrees and providences

of God by which he works for the correction of

these evils. Man must know that he is not the

architect of his own fortune, but that there is

One who ruleth in the kingdom of men, on

whom his dependence should be humbly