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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                            ~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

                                            Chapter 3 – The Fiery Ordeal
                   any  God,  except  their  own  God.  29.


               Therefore I make a decree, That every people,


               nation,  and  language,  which  speak  anything


               amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach,


               and  Abed-nego,  shall  be  cut  in  pieces,  and


               their houses shall be made a dunghill; because



               there is no other God that can deliver after this


               sort.  30.  Then  the  king  promoted  Shadrach,


               Meshach,  and  Abed-nego  in  the  province  of


               Babylon.



               When  bidden,  these  three  men  came  forth


               from the furnace. Then the princes, governors,


               and king’s counselors, through whose advice,


               or  at  least  concurrence,  they  had  been  cast


               into  the  furnace  (for  the  king  said  to  them,


               verse 24, “Did not we cast three men bound


               into  the  midst  of  the  fire?”),  were  gathered


               together  to  look  upon  these  men,  and  have
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