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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 6 – Daniel in the Lion’s Den
be the only dispenser of favors and granter

of petitions for thirty days. Hence the king, not

fathoming their evil designs, signed the

decree, and it took its place on the statute-

book as one of the unalterable laws of the

Medes and Persians.

Mark the subtlety of these men — the length

to which people will go to accomplish the ruin

of the good. If they had made the decree read

that no petition should be asked of the God of

the Hebrews, which was the real design of the

matter, the king would at once have divined

their object, and the decree would not have

been signed. So they gave it a general

application, and were willing to ignore and

heap insult upon their whole system of

religion, and all the multitude of their gods, for

the sake of ruining the object of their hatred.