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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 1 – Daniel in Captivity
and understanding science, and had ability
in them to stand in the king’s palace. In other
words, they had already acquired a good
degree of education, and their physical and
mental powers were so far developed that a
skillful reader of human nature could form
quite an accurate estimate of their
capabilities. They are supposed to have been
about eighteen or twenty years of age.
In the treatment which these Hebrew captives
received, we see an instance of the wise policy
and the liberality of the rising king,
Nebuchadnezzar.
1. Instead of choosing, like too many kings of
later times, means for the gratification of low
and base desires, he chose young men who
should be educated in all matters pertaining
