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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 4 – Nebuchadnezzar’s Decree
3. A still greater humiliation than that

narrated in the second chapter was brought

upon the magicians. There, they boasted that

if they only had the dream, they could make

known the interpretation. Here,

Nebuchadnezzar distinctly remembers the

dream, but meets the mortification of having

his magicians ignominiously fail him again.

They could not make known the

interpretation, and resort is again had to the

prophet of God.

4. The remarkable illustration of the reign of

Nebuchadnezzar. This is symbolized by a tree

in the midst of the earth. Babylon, where

Nebuchadnezzar reigned, was about in the

center of the then known world. The tree

reached unto heaven, and the leaves thereof

were fair. Its external glory and splendor were