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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 1 – Daniel in Captivity
made. This interview also shows the king to

have been a man well versed in all the arts and

sciences of the Chaldeans, else he would not

have been qualified to examine others therein.

As the result, recognizing merit wherever he

saw it, without respect to religion or

nationality, he acknowledged them to be ten

times superior to any in his own land.

And it is added that Daniel continued even

unto the first year of King Cyrus. This is an

instance of the somewhat singular use of the

word unto, or until, which occasionally occurs

in the sacred writings. It does not mean that

he continued no longer than to the first year of

Cyrus, for he lived some years after the

commencement of his reign; but this is the

time to which the writer wished to direct

especial attention, as it brought deliverance to