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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
which were dainty and goodly are departed
from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at
all.
Gluttony Rebuked. — The fruits here
mentioned are, according to the original,
“autumnal fruits;” and in this we find a
prophecy that the “delicacies of the season,”
upon which the luxurious gormand so sets his
pampered appetite, will be suddenly cut off.
This, of course, is the work of the famine,
which is the result of the fourth vial. Chapter
16:8. And we may be even now having a
premonition of this destruction in the
phylloxera of the vineyards, the “yellows” of
the peach orchards, and other recent enemies
to vegetation.
In this connection we can hardly forbear
glancing at the general aspect of the times in
