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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
has done for them in the way of benefits and

blessings. We ought to be no less ready to tell

what God has done for us in the way of

humiliation and chastisements; and

Nebuchadnezzar sets us a good example in

this respect, as we shall see from the

subsequent portions of this chapter. He

frankly confesses the vanity and pride of his

heart, and the means that God took to abase

him. With a genuine spirit of repentance and

humiliation, he thinks it good, of his own free

will, to show these things, that the sovereignty

of God may be extolled, and his name adored.

In reference to the kingdom, he no longer

claims immutability for his own, but makes a

full surrender to God, in acknowledging his

kingdom alone to be everlasting, and his

dominion from generation to generation.