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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
interpretation which follows is so plain that

it need not detain us. The threatened

judgments were conditional. They were to

teach the king that the Heavens do rule, the

word heavens here being put for God, the

ruler of the heavens. Hence Daniel takes

occasion to give the king counsel in view of the

threatened judgment. But he does not

denounce him with harshness and

censoriousness. Kindness and persuasion are

the weapons he chooses to wield: “Let my

counsel be acceptable unto thee.” So the

apostle beseeches men to suffer the word of

exhortation. Hebrews 13:22. If the king would

break off his sins by righteousness, and his

iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, it

might result in a lengthening of his tranquility,

or, as the margin reads, “An healing of thine

error.” That is, he might even have averted the