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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 1 – Daniel in Captivity
Daniel purposed not to defile himself with

the king’s meat nor with his wine. Daniel had

other reasons for this course than simply the

effect of such a diet upon his physical system,

though he would derive great advantage in

this respect from the fare he proposed to

adopt. But it was frequently the case that the

meat used by the kings and princes of heathen

nations, who were often the high priests of

their religion, was first offered in sacrifice to

idols, and the wine they used, poured out as a

libation before them; and again, some of the

meat of which they made use, was

pronounced unclean by the Jewish law; and on

either of these grounds Daniel could not,

consistently with his religion, partake of these

articles; hence he requested, not from any

morose or sullen temper, but from

conscientious scruples, that he might not be