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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

33. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon

Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from

men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body

was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs

were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails

like birds’ claws.

Nebuchadnezzar failed to profit by the

warning he had received; yet God bore with

him twelve months before the blow fell. All the

time he was cherishing pride in his heart, and

at length it reached a climax beyond which

God could not suffer it to pass. The king

walked in the palace, and as he looked forth

upon the wonders of that wonder of the world,

great Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, he

forgot the source of all his strength and

greatness, and exclaimed, “Is not this great