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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
monarch as Nebuchadnezzar? He had been a

warrior from his youth. With the perils of

battle, the terrors of slaughter and carnage, he

had often stood face to face, and his

countenance had not blanched, nor his nerves

trembled. And what should make him afraid

now? No foe threatened, no hostile cloud was

visible. As the most unlikely time was taken

for him to be touched with fear, so the most

unlikely means was selected by which to

accomplish it — a dream. His own thoughts,

and the visions of his own head, were taken to

teach him what nothing else could, — a

salutary lesson of dependence and humility.

He who had terrified others, but whom no

others could terrify, was made a terror to

himself.