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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 1 – Daniel in Captivity
leguminous plants, which are not reaped,

but pulled or plucked, which, however

wholesome, were not naturally calculated to

render them fatter in flesh than the others.”

A ten days’ trial of this diet resulting favorably,

they were permitted to continue it during the

whole course of their training for the duties of

the palace. Their increase in flesh and

improvement in countenance which took

place during these ten days, can hardly be

attributed to the natural result of the diet; for

it would hardly produce such marked effects

in so short a time. Is it not much more natural

to conclude that this result was produced by a

special interposition of the Lord, as a token of

his approbation of the course on which they

had entered, which course, if persevered in,

would in process of time lead to the same